Honoring the Past while Building the Future
New Course Curriculum for Schools of Social Work! The Susan Schechter Social Action Seminar
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2009 Susan Schechter Leadership Development Fellow Chosen!The Family Violence Prevention Fund and its national partners are proud to introduce Patricia Duncan Hall, as the 2009 Fellow. |
The Susan Schechter Leadership Development Fellowship has been created to honor the rich history of dedication, ingenuity and compassion that are the hallmarks of the movement to end violence against women and children. It will strengthen and expand the knowledge base about how best to address violence in families, and foster new generations of leadership in the movement to stop violence against women and children.
Fellows are entering this work at a crucial historical moment that Susan Schechter herself best understood: a mature social movement that has yet to accomplish the goal of stopping the violence. Shortly before she was diagnosed with cancer, Susan wrote:
"As I work within the movement today, I am still amazed at what has been accomplished, surprised and disappointed by what we fail to foresee, and awed by the passion, pain and renewal in the work of liberating women from tyranny and violence. Luckily for me, revelations continue. May they also continue for those who come next!"
Susan Schechter, April 2003. Published in Violence Against Women: Classic Papers (Allyn & Bacon, 2005)
