Campus screening of The Invisible War

On April 2, 7PM in Witherspoon Student Center theater Dr. Monica Leach and Dr. Sarah Stein of NC State’s Dept of Social Work are sponsoring the on-campus screening of The Invisible War which is an Oscar-nominated 97 minute documentary on military sexual assault and trauma. The screening for the campus and public is part of a grant from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for research on how the mainstream press has covered the phenomenon of military sexual assault and trauma. The film is a remarkably comprehensive and careful exploration of the subject. It features a number of women who were raped and what happened to them in terms of PTSD, leaving the service, and no perpetrators prosecuted. It also interviews a lot of the military top brass about what has been going on.

The film will be screened for free April 2nd, 7pm at , with refreshments served starting at 6:30pm. The following speakers will be in attendance after the screening for Q&A: Col Marilyn Brooks, head of Ft. Bragg’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program, with her staff members SFC Simmons (my Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC)); Ms. Deanne Gerdes, Director for the Fayetteville Rape Crisis Volunteer Community Center; and Sgt Kellie Berg, Supervisor FAY PD Special Victims Unit & Cyber Crime. We will also have onstage for Q&A Jenn Scott, NC State’s Women’s Center Assistant Director for Interpersonal Violence Prevention, and 2 Clinical Practice of Social Work professors from NC State, Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW and W. J. Casstevens, PhD, LCSW, MSW.

Please join us for this special event!