LBDSociety - Longhorn Chapter

The Little Black Dress Society is a service organization dedicated to Educating, Empowering, Engaging, and Embracing women of all walks of life in an effort to end the abuse of women. Through chapters we call “Societies” throughout the nation we combine energy, efforts, education, and involved giving through philanthropy. We believe through our combined efforts we can help remove the blindfold tha

08/01/2015

Support MONICA'S LAW! Prevent domestic homicide. Make non-fatal strangulation a felony in Ohio. On January 31, 2014 Monica Weber Jeter was strangled by her husband until she was "dizzy and unable to call for help". The attack occurred while she was sleeping and their five young children were in the home. One of the children disrupted the attack and called 911. Monica’s husband pled "no contes…

04/01/2015

The writers at GENERAL HOSPITAL are soooooo very good!

That being said....

For all those that may have been triggered by today's episode in some way, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE for some resources near you OR the National Su***de Prevention Resource Center at 1-800-273-8255 OR the RAINN 1-800-656-HOPE. You don't have to work through the triggers on your own!

12/30/2013

It is official... my book is now available for purchases! I'm so very excited. This my very first book to be published (not my first publication). I hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing about it.

http://www.fastpencil.com/publications/6317-Domestic-Violence-Voices

George, my sidekick in life, read it and said that he had no idea about other portions of my life before I had met him. While I talk a lot about what I am doing presently, I don't often talk enough about where I have been and how I got to where I am today.

Let me know what you think.... I'm busy working on book #2 which will be totally different than this one. :))

With much love (and a little bit of holding my breath since it is my first book), I let you into my world of advocacies from beginning to present.

Kathryn Krastin

Domestic Violence Voices: Kathryn Krastin is a mother, grandmother, and a long time advocate for the underdogs of society. Having been a survivor of domestic violence herself, she has passion dedicated specifically towards aiding other survivors so that they too can survive, become an advocate themselves, and with the hopes…