Ways on how you can receive support if you are or have been a victim of domestic violence
Jennifer Capezza has a diverse background beginning in live theatre production and special events. Transitioning from this to receiving her Master's of Public Administration from LIU Post to enter into the Non-Profit field to focus on special events in the fundraising departments. Along the way she founded and built All CAPZ Consulting. A social media marketing, management, and training firm dedicated to empowering you to take control of your digital footprint. While she enjoyed this work, especially working alongside others mall businesses and helping them to build their digital platform and grow their customer base, it was missing something. She missed the excitement of building and launching special events and the satisfaction of working towards the greater good. Joining the team at LIADV brings her career full circle and applies all her experience, both on the ground and online to achieve successful fundraising campaigns.
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Segment 1
Tommy opens up today’s show talking about how important the non-profit field is and it’s impact for the community. Tommy’s guest today is Jennifer Capezza, who has a background in live theater production and special events. She transitioned from this to working on her Master’s Degree in Public Administration to enter into the Nonprofit field to focus on special events in fundraising departments. Currently, Jenn is part of the team at LIADV, applying her experience to help achieve successful fundraising campaigns. LIADV is a nonprofit organization that helps with prevention, support and healing for abuse victims in the Long Island area. Jenn gets right into some info about their hotline that someone can call when they need help. People who have experienced domestic violence in need of counseling, legal assistance, or even shelter can call the LIADV 24 hour hotline 631-666-8833.
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As a teenager and into adulthood, Jenn always worked in live theater production and special events. She has always been very passionate. Jenn would work as a stage manager and production manager. Although Jenn was able to participate in events such as the Tribeca FIlm Festival, she felt even more excited putting together special events that dealt with nonprofits because of her contribution and its impact. Jenn has worked with LIADV for 10 years as a volunteer and has been with them full time for about 4 years now. Going from theater to nonprofit and doing incredible work for her community, Tommy comments that even if you don’t know where you are currently or where you are going in your life and career, your journey will take you places you never thought you’d be in.
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Coming back from the break, Tommy recalls being in school and how they had a play to raise money for disability awareness month. This was a time when certain topics were almost taboo. Jenn says that LIADV was the first domestic violence organization in Long Island when it first started. It started off as a hotline number which now can translate to over 100 languages. Unfortunately domestic violence affects more women than illnesses do. Jenn also makes a point that domestic violence can happen to anyone, men and women. Jenn and LIADV are always there to make sure everyone feels safe. Jenn talks about the complication that happens when leaving a relationship; it’s not as easy as just leaving for reasons such as abusers in relationships having power over their victim. Jenn explains that abuse doesn’t always mean that it’s physical as it can also be emotional and mental abuse.
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Coming back from the final break, Jenn talks about services available through LIADV. They offer a shelter house that can bring in 16-17 people to stay, including children who are fleeing their homes to escape domestic violence and have no other options. People are allowed to stay at the shelters as long as they need to. The organization also offers a variety of assistance and training in financial literacy education as well as help with resume writing, interview prep, courtroom advocacy, and legal assistance. Jenn says that the organization is open to working with schools, sponsor partners, community groups and more. On October 1st, they have an event called Pause for the Cause that will raise awareness of the link between domestic violence and animal abuse, and raise funds to support LIADV's services.
They have more events earlier in the year which you can find out more about on their website. So much to talk about as always but to close out the show, Tommy thanks Jennifer Capezza for joining him today. You can find and connect with LIADV through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and liadv.org. Next week, Tommy will be speaking with Cliff Baker from the organization, A Need We Feed.
