The YWCA of Palm Beach County presents the third breakfast in the series of four focusing on women’s health issues to be held Wednesday, January 11, 2017, at Embassy Suites Hotel, 1601 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, with registration at 7:30 a.m. and program at 8:00 a.m.
The topic for this event is “Human Trafficking,” with speakers Heidi Schaeffer, MD, and Liisa Spinello.
Heidi Schaeffer earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Miami School of Medicine and subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital. She has been a licensed Florida physician since 2000. Dr. Schaeffer is a member of the American Woman’s Medical Association and its P.A.T.H. (Physicians-Against-the-Trafficking-of-Humans) Committee. She has been part of the KidSafe Foundation Board for three years and now serves as Vice-Chair. She is the Vice-President of the Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches, as well as the Coalition Communications Specialist of the Executive Board of the Broward Human Trafficking Coalition.
Liisa Spinello, a native of West Palm Beach, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She also studied psychology and economics abroad at Reading University in England. Liisa was a Case Manager from 2003 to 2006 for the Florida Department of Children and Families and has been the Sexual Assault Care Coordinator at Palm Beach County Victim Services and Certified Rape Crisis Center since 2006. She is a Board Member and Treasurer of the Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches. In 2012, she was awarded the Lighthouse Award by the Health Council of Southeast Florida for going above and beyond her work to support the health and human services in our community.
“Florida ranks third in the nation in the prevalence of trafficking victims,” said Suzanne Turner, CEO of the YWCA. “Addressing this issue is timely since January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month,” she added.
Tickets are $35 per person and $350 for a table of ten.
For more information or to make a reservation, please call 561-640-0050, Ext. 134, or go to www.ywcapbc.org and select Events.