• Produced "Hidden in Plain View: the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in Atlanta," a mapping study and qualitative review with case studies.
• Introduced legislation to de-criminalize children who are arrested for prostitution.
• Designed a public education campaign with pro bono services of Edelman Public Relations with the theme "Dear John" to be launched in Fall '06
• Met with hotel managers in Buckhead and Downtown to develop strategies to curtail activities on their properties with visitors to Atlanta.

Early Education and Child Care
Making the City of Atlanta a model employer for parents with young children:

• Working with Blank Family Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation to implement and test Earn Benefits, a tool that screens for eligibility for numerous public benefit programs including early child care.
• Planning lunch-and-learns for city employees on early childhood issues.
• Including child care and learning resource information in new employee orientation.
  
  

Ending Domestic Violence

• Participated in the development of "Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and Non-Offending Caregivers: Strategies for Developing Coordinated Systems of Care in Fulton County."
  

Financial Literacy

• Piloted the Mayor's Money Matters, a two day workshop for women city employees, which later became institutionalized within the Department of human Resources' ongoing training curriculum for all employees.
  

Mayor's Breakfast Roundtables

• Hard Lessons from Real Women: Dealing with Disability in Atlanta, August 23, 2006
• We Are Their Sisters: Immigrant and Refugee Women and Girls in Atlanta, May 24, 2006
• Why Health is a Women's Issue, February 22, 2006
• Why are Young Girls Being Prostituted? September 16, 2005
• Who's Caring for Our Children? June 29, 2005
  

Quarterly Roundtables are scheduled four weeks in advance, so watch this website for up-to-date announcements or email Stephanie Davis at stdavis@atlantaga.gov to be on a list for invitations and alerts.

The League of Women Voters Atlanta/Fulton partners with AWA to provide volunteers to coordinate and support the Mayor's Breakfast Roundtables.

Mayors Breakfast Roundtable
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

"We are Our Mother's Daughters: Women and Aging in Atlanta"

City Council Chambers, City Hall
55 Trinity Avenue
7:30 - 9:00 am

Complimentary Parking in the new deck on Washington Street, near Trinity Street.