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As for the skin,
What a difference
Between a man and a woman!
But as for the bones,
Both are simply human beings. ~ Ikkyu (1394-1481) ~

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Personal Issues--Social Service Contacts

Philadelphia / Bucks / Montgomery County Pennsylvania USA Area.

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~~~ National Organization of

PARENTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN, INC.

FOR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THOSE

WHO HAVE DIED BY VIOLENCE.

CONTACT: 1-888-818-POMC or see>> POMC.COM

Families of Murder Victim's Services Program

Telephone: 21 5.686.8033

Services for families of murder victims.

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Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program Bilingual Domestic Violence Project (BDVP) 1 340 Frankford Avenue Philadelphia PA 19125

Contact: Ana Lisa Yoder. Telephone: 215.426.8610 Hotline (Eng) 215.739.9999 Hotline (Span) 215.235.9992

Provides education, survival training and counseling services to victims, adults and children.

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Menergy

A Philadelphia based treatment program for men who are abusive to their intimate partners.

Visit this website: www.Menergy.org for more important information.

7500 Germantown Avenue, New Covenant Campus,

Elders Hall, Suite 5 Philadelphia PA 19119

Contact: Paul Bukovec or Tony Lapp, LSW Bilingual Coordinator/Counselor

Telephone:215.242.2235 English

267.625.6135 Espanola

.Some stuff about men and women's brains.

"A man's brain may be bigger overall, Dr. Louann Brizendine writes, but the main hub for emotion and memory formation is larger in a woman's brain, as is the wiring for language and "observing emotion in others." Also, a woman's "neurological reality" is much more deeply affected by hormonal surges that fluctuate throughout her life."
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"Male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition, asserts Brizendine. The sooner women -- and those who love them -- accept and appreciate how those neurological differences shape female behavior, the better we can all get along"
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A few neurological differences between women and men from Louann Brizendine's "The Female Brain":

Thoughts about sex enter women's brains once every couple of days; for men, thoughts about sex occur every minute.
Women use 20,000 words per day; men use 7,000 per day.
Women excel at knowing what people are feeling; men have difficulty spotting an emotion unless someone cries or threatens bodily harm.
Women remember fights that a man insists never happened.
Women over 50 are more likely to initiate divorce.

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"Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain. We're not talking about a small amount of pleasure. This is huge. It's a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm.

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"There is no unisex brain," Brizendine writes. "Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality."

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For all women -- and those who love them -- she offers a tip.

"Research shows that the female brain naturally releases oxytocin after a 20-second hug. The embrace bonds the huggers and triggers the brain's trust circuits." So Brizendine advises, don't let a guy hug you unless you plan to trust him.
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The Female Brain .
by Louann Brizendine M.D.

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Men's Resource Center 2100 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19103

Contact: Gerald Evans.

Telephone: 610.971.9310

Provides anger management classes for men and women, group counseling for men who are violent, and intimacy training for couples and individuals in non-violent relationships.

Napoleon bemoaning his spendthrift wife Josephine ..." I shall keep divorce legal in France, if only so I can leave that woman"

Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc.\

21 6 West Somerset Street Philadelphia PA 19133

Contact: Erin Johnson

Telephone: 215.763.8870 x1335

Hotline : 215.291.8742

Provides individual counseling services, legal advocacy and court representation, referrals to Episcopal and Kensington Hospitals for additional services and support

People's Emergency Center

3902 5pring Garden Street Philadelphia PA 19104

Contact: Julia Hinckley

Telephone: 215.382.7522 x226

Provides shelter services to women with children and teens with domestic violence issues, referrals to outside agencies, parenting classes, life-skills training, etc.

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RE: Dissociative Disorders / Recovered Memories / Child Abuse :

"That's a very complex area, but my general take on it is that if it is possible to have a false memory that abuse occurred when it didn't , it's also possible to have a false memory that abuse didn't occur when it did, which is what people with dissociative disorders tend to have... ..And there are three million cases of childhood sexual or physical abuse every year in this country....For every every case where somebody's falsely accused, when it didn't happen, there must be a lot of cases where they're not accused when it did. But of course, the whole notion of childhood sexual abuse is so ___awful that it tends to arouse passions." -- Dr. David Spiegel, psychiatrist.. Stanford University. See: The Three Pound Enigma by Shannon Moffet.

Philadelphia Society for Services to Children (PSSC)

415 South 15th Street Philadelphia PA 19146

Contact: Laurie Haines

Telephone: 215.875.3400

Provides in home social services to families and children.

.Women Against Abuse

P. 0. Box 13758 Philadelphia PA 19110

Contact: Tanvanya Giles

Telephone: 215.386.1280

Hotline: 215.386.7777

Provides services to survivors of domestic violence and their children, shelter services, transitional housing, legal services

Women Against Abuse Legal Program

100 South Broad Street, 5 th Floor

Land Title Building Philadelphia PA 1911 0

Contact: Amy Ratsina

Telephone: 215.686.7082

Hotline: 215.386.7777

The Legal Center provides individual representation and legal options counseling to domestic violence survivors.

Women in Transition 21 South 12th Street,

6th floor Philadelphia PA 19107

Contact: Patrice Gammon

Telephone: 215.564.5301

Hotline: 215.751.1111

Provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence; community education, peer support group, counseling, advocacy;

training, 24-hour hotline, substance abuse programs

Women organized Against Rape (WOAR)

1233 Locust Street, Suite 202 Philadelphia PA 19107

Telephone: 215.985.3315

Hotline: 215.985.3333

Provides sexual abuse counseling to children and adults.

Speaking of Rape:

"Dr. Donald Thompson, an Australian psychologist and memory expert had been accused of rape. The raped woman's detailed and accurate recollection of Thompson as her assailant led the police to him....but it turned out he had an air tight alibi.... Thompson could not possibly have committed this rape because the moment it occurred Thomson was giving a live television interview on, of all things, memory and memory distortion." Dr. Daniel Schacter, a cognitive neuroscientist explains..."What had happened here was a classic though extreme case of memory misattribution"

The victim Schacter hypothesized, must have seen Thompson's face on television just before or during the horrors of the rape and had put the face together with the memory."

Attribution: The Three Pound Engima..... Shannon Moffet

Women's Law Project 125 South Ninth Street, Suite 300 Philadelphia PA 19107

Telephone:

215.928.9801

Provides legal advocacy for women / families;

telephone counseling and information on domestic violence, substance abuse, separation and divorce, child and spousal support

Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia

(AVP) Crime Victim's Counseling Center

Contact: Dawn Dickerson

Telephone:215.438.9070

Provides services to adults and children who have had a family member murdered or who have been victims of violence.

Private Therapy service

Najma A. Davis DSW

Davis Counseling & Consulting Services

Extensive Experience in the Philadelphia Court System.

Bailey Building

1218 Chestnut Street, Suite 1008

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Phone: 215 923 5001 --- For Appointment & Information

Fax: 215 923 5002

Emergency: 1 800 772 530

Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit

1421 Arch Street Philadelphia PA 19102

Contact: Mimi Rose

Telephone:215.686.8096

Provides multidisciplinary response to victims of domestic violence.

Philadelphia Children's Alliance

4000 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104

Contact: Tasha Tervalon

Telephone: 215.387.9500

Refers domestic abuse to major local providers, cooperates with police and DHS on investigations of child sexual abuse.

Victim Witness Services of South Philadelphia

1 21 0 South Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19146

Contact: Alison Sprague

Telephone: 215.551.3360

Provides direct assistance and support to crime victims and families

residing in the 4th District

Domestic Abuse Project

14 West Second Street Media PA 19063

Telephone: 610.565.6272

Provides shelter; legal and medical advocacy for victims of domestic violence, and individual/group counseling.

Grand Central Kinship Care

1211 Chestnut Street, Suite 608 Philadelphia PA 19107

Telephone:215.557.1554

Provides kinship care for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren

Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition Inc.

4601 Market Street Philadelphia PA 19139

Telephone: 215.476.9640

A maternal and infant services program for the Asian Community in Zip codes 191 45, 46, 47, and 48: translation counseling and education services to pregnant women or mothers with children under one year. Will support women with domestic violence issues.

Korean Women's Support Committee,

Women's Center of Montgomery County

Day Telephone: 215.886.8725

Evenings: 21 5.885.5020

Provides domestic violence, translation, court compliance information and referrals.

Also has children’s program, Big Sisters, ESL

Laurel House P.O. Box 764 Norristown PA 1 9404

Hotline: 800.642.3150

Fax: 610.277.6425

Provides emergency shelter (30 days) for battered women, individual/group counseling, children’s program, legal assistance/advocacy D&A counseling

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women,

The Battered Women's Justice Project

125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 Philadelphia PA J 9J 07

Telephone: 215.351.0010

Toll Free: 800.903.0111

Fax: 215.351.0779

Provides legal advocacy and advice for battered women charged with crimes.

Staff also provides direct technical assistance and consultation to defense teams.

(Women more susceptible to heart disease caused by air pollution.
It has long been known that particulates can contribute to lung and heart disease, with women perhaps more susceptible than men to heart problems, perhaps because of their smaller blood vessels and other biological differences said Douglas Dockery, a pollution specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health in the New England Journal of Medicine)

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Hotline: 800.799.7233

A 24-hour hot line that provides telephone numbers for shelter and counseling services nationwide and free informational materials Not a counseling hotline.

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300 Harrisburg PA 17112-2778

Telephone: 717.545.6400

Legal offices: 888.23-L-E-G-A-L

Toll-free: 800.537.2238

Fax: 717.545.9456

Provides referrals for shelters and domestic violence service providers, legal advocacy and advice and domestic violence trainings.