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PROTOTYPES
Divisional Director of Community Outreach, Prevention and Education Programs
Ms. Slaughter will serve as a panelist for the discussion entitled, History of Grassroots Organizing in the Domestic Violence Movement and Civil Rights Movement: Parallels for Engaging and Mobilizing the Community, which is scheduled for the morning of Monday, March 19, 2007 . Ruth Slaughter is the Divisional Director of Community Outreach, Prevention and Education Programs for PROTOTYPES, one of the nation's leading multi-service, non-profit agencies that helps women and their families deal with complex issues, including domestic violence and other trauma. Before joining PROTOTYPES, Ms. Slaughter spent the last three decades in community organizing to increase services to hard-to-reach populations. She organized many different communities around the issue of woman battering in order to re-open Haven House, the nation's oldest shelter for battered women and their children where Ms. Slaughter served as Executive Director for 14 years. Ms. Slaughter played an integral role in the founding of a number of grassroots coalition organizations, including the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her work has been published locally and nationally, and she has been a recipient of numerous awards, most notably in the year 1997 - the Sabbatical Award for Community Leadership from the Durfee Foundation and the 1 st Vision Award for leadership in domestic violence from the California Department of Health Services. |
