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Date: Thursday, October 21st
Time: 12noon - 2pm
Location: Battery Gardens Restaurant
Inside Battery Park (Opposite 17 State Street)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Hokemeyer - an Attorney, Family Therapist, Expert on the Dr. Oz Show and Clinical Consultant for Caron Treatment Centers
Inspiration Award: Johnson Family Foundation
Event Co-Chairs: Kathleen Tait & Cindy Feinberg
Event Committee:
Honorary Committee: Linda Fairstein, Nancy Grace, Trisha Meili, Denise Brown, Robin Givens
*For more information, contact the Retreat’s Development Department at 631-329-4398
This annual luncheon gives our New York City friends an opportunity to support The Retreat. Each year we keep a restricted guest list and feature a well-known guest speaker on a topic relating to domestic violence. Beginning in 2005, the Retreat has hosted a New York City Luncheon for our many supporters who reside in Manhattan. In its inaugural year, the luncheon featured Linda Fairstein, one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, at the Doubles Club. In 2006, the guest speaker was Trisha Meili, author of I Am the Central Park Jogger. Our emcee was Nancy Grace, Court TV and CNN Headline News anchor. In 2007, the Retreat hosted the event at the Boathouse in Central Park and Denise Brown (sister of slain Nicole Simpson Brown) was our special guest and speaker. In 2008, we moved to the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center and Robin Givens stirred our guests with her emotional tale of survival, finally breaking her family’s cycle of generations of abuse. Finally, last year we moved to South Street Seaport with, candidate for Congress, Kevin Powell, as our featured speaker. We will also be raffling off some high-end, unique gifts.
About the Retreat
The Retreat, founded in 1987, is a not-for-profit organization based in East Hampton, NY whose mission is to provide safety, shelter and support for victims of domestic abuse and to break the cycle of family violence. The Retreat provides both residential and non-residential services (housing, crisis hotline, counseling and legal advocacy) and maintains an in-school violence prevention education program, all of which are free of charge to those in need. The Retreat is the only domestic violence agency serving the East End of Long Island from Brookhaven to Montauk, both North and South forks.
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