Speakers

Ruth Slaughter
Divisional Director

Community Outreach, Prevention & Education Programs, PROTOTYPES
Culver City, CA

Ruth Slaughter is the divisional director for Community Outreach, Prevention and Education Programs at PROTOTYPES. The programs in her division include HIV/AIDS prevention and PROTOTYPES WARN, The Women's and AIDS Risk Network, one of the first national AIDS prevention/education efforts to target women at risk for HIV infection. Before joining PROTOTYPES, Ms. Slaughter spent a number of years in community organizing to increase services to hard-to-reach populations. Ms. Slaughter also is responsible for researching and writing the grant for the first government funded Domestic Violence Program. Ms. Slaughter has been a recipient of numerous awards, most notably in the year 1997 - the presentation of Sabbatical Award for Community Leadership from the Durfee Foundation and the presentation of the 1st Vision Award for leadership in Domestic Violence from the California Department of Health Services.