DC professor addresses Cambodian
women’s crisis training group

Defiance College professor Jeffrey Weaner addresses audience at a training session conducted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, by the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center. To his left is Touch Sarum, department chief of Women’s Affairs for Phnom Penh.

Defiance College professor Jeffrey Weaner was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, recently where he spoke to a group of about 100 community government and law enforcement officials during a two-day training conducted by the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center.

Weaner, a social work professor and McMaster Fellow at Defiance College, discussed the Family Justice Center of Northwest Ohio and the partnerships between legal services, social agencies, law enforcement and Defiance College as a successful model for addressing the problem of domestic violence. He went on to compliment the efforts of the CWCC in forging similar types of relationships in Cambodia.

Defiance College’s McMaster School for Advancing Humanity has partnered with the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center for three years doing trainings on program evaluation and monitoring with staff as well as working with several of its eight programs. This December, Weaner, Dr. JoAnn Burkhardt, and Dr. Nathan Griggs will return to Cambodia with a group including 12 students to do several projects with the CWCC and the village of Ba Prey.