Women’s Center Benefit Breakfast Focusing On Bullying

BROOKFIELD — The Women’s Center’s fourth Annual Hearts of Hope Breakfast to be held Wednesday, February 8, from 7:30 to 9 am, at the Fox Hill Inn will feature local bullying prevention advocate Deborah Zegas Berman as this year’s special guest speaker.

The Women’s Center provides free and confidential services to prevent or lessen the trauma associated with domestic violence, sexual assault, and other major life transitions to thousands of women, children, and men annually. The programs of the Women’s Center are supported by state and local government, area United Way agencies and the people and businesses in the communities served including Newtown.

Ms. Berman, a Ridgefield resident, will present “The Irreversible Effects of Bullying.” Her program talk focuses on the personal toll bullying has taken on her family, Connecticut’s updated Bullying Prevention Legislation and her role in its creation and passage, and ways to affect real change.

Call the Women’s Center at 203-731-5200 to host a table of ten for $200 or to register as an individual for $20.