November 21, 2024

For All Seasons Donor Event Speaker Starts Conversation to End Sexual Violence

Don McPherson, speaking at For All Seasons’ recent Donor Reception. Contributed Photo
Don McPherson, speaking at For All Seasons’ recent Donor Reception. Contributed Photo
Don McPherson, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, activist and feminist, spoke at For All Seasons’ recent Donor Reception on the topic, “You Throw Like a Girl: A Conversation to End Sexual Violence.” His presentation focused on men and women having a conversation nurturing positive language and a healthy understanding of masculinity.

For All Seasons will continue working with Don McPherson to create a community-based program to address men’s violence again women. McPherson will be engaging men to address the culture of unhealthy masculinity at the core of all forms of men’s violence against women. He will work with For All Seasons’ trauma-certified staff to create healthy relationship groups to support victims of crime, while deconstructing rape culture to enable points of engagement with men and women across the Mid Shore.

Photo: For All Seasons staff and board members posed with speaker Don McPherson. Pictured front row, left to right, are Allie Prell, Andrea Lange, Mayra Torres, Maureen Curtin, Leslie Sea, Monika Mraz, Diane Flagler, Beth Anne Langrell, speaker Don McPherson, Mickey Elsberg and Erica Horney.  Pictured back row, left to right, are: Elizabeth Jaramillo, Jane Feigleson, Sallie Miller, Alisha Saulsbury, Lauren Kirby, Bonnie Thomas, Abby Tyner, Lesa Lee, Courtney Calloway, Fabiola Marquez, Katie Pittsinger, Caroline Eglseder, Lisa Roth, Lois Bahr, Lynda Koppelman, and Tom Mendenhall.
For All Seasons staff and board members posed with speaker Don McPherson. Pictured front row, left to right, are Allie Prell, Andrea Lange, Mayra Torres, Maureen Curtin, Leslie Sea, Monika Mraz, Diane Flagler, Beth Anne Langrell, speaker Don McPherson, Mickey Elsberg and Erica Horney.

Pictured back row, left to right, are: Elizabeth Jaramillo, Jane Feigleson, Sallie Miller, Alisha Saulsbury, Lauren Kirby, Bonnie Thomas, Abby Tyner, Lesa Lee, Courtney Calloway, Fabiola Marquez, Katie Pittsinger, Caroline Eglseder, Lisa Roth, Lois Bahr, Lynda Koppelman, and Tom Mendenhall. – Contributed Photo

For All Seasons offers individual and group therapy, general, child and adolescent therapy, marriage and couples’ counseling, grief counseling, school-based mental health therapy, urgent care services, Rape Crisis Response, Rape Crisis Counseling and Support, 24-Hour English and Spanish Hotlines, and education and outreach programming. For further information about For All Seasons, call 410-822-1018 or visit forallseasonsinc.org.

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