The Department of Political Science at Benedictine University and the Jim Ryan Symposium on Public Affairs will present a symposium titled “Love is not Abuse: Campus Dating and Domestic Abuse” beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 in Birck Hall, Room 112 in the Tellabs Lecture Hall.
The event is free and open to the public, and features guest speakers Jamie Edwards and Karen Kuchar from the Family Shelter Service in Wheaton.
The pair will discuss dating and domestic abuse, and how people can affect change through the Peace, Education and Community Engagement Project, or PEACE Project.
The U.S. Department of Justice reports than between 600,000 and 6 million women and between 100,000 and 6 million men are victims of domestic violence each year please double check these numbers. Women between the ages of 20 and 24 are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence, according to the Department of Justice.
For more information, visit the Center for Civic Leadership and Public Service Web site at www.ben.edu/ccl.
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