Tricia Lares-Warner Releases New Book

[Written by Patrick Bean]

Lawyer and imaging technologist Tricia Lares-Warner recently added a new title to her already extensive resume, that of ‘author’, with the release of her first book  ‘Just Bee-tween Us Girls’.

The book targets teenage females, to provide vital legal knowledge that relates to adolescent girls in areas of domestic violence and stalking, assault, battery and empowerment in a fun, exciting and relatable way.

The interactive book is filled with figurative, and literal imagery, as well as many depictions of girls with flowery clothes and other bright pictures.

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, thus the release of the book earlier this month was timed to coincide with heightened awareness of the scourge that is abuse, whether mental or physical.”

“The purpose of the book is to provide education, protect youth, prevent crime and preserve the next generation,” explained Lares-Warner. “To change the trajectory of the youth by education and changing their thought processes.

“This book is important as the aim is to allow young teenage girls to gain important legal knowledge that relates to teenage girls such as domestic violence and stalking, assault, battery and empowerment in a fun, exciting and relatable way.

“The book is full of girls with flowery clothes and bright images. At the end of every chapter is a worksheet that encourages thinking processes.

“The book can impact readers by changing thought processes, making them aware and empowering them to think on a higher level. “Also at the end of the book, there are valuable websites that they can further explore such as UN Women and hotlines for domestic violence in Bermuda and the Caribbean, US and Canada.”

As the book has as it target market the formative demographic containing females aged 10-18, Lares-Warner insists that youth voices are crucial to any fight against the scourge of abuse.

With a nudge from a fellow church member Lares-Warner was inspired to write on the subject of abuse by her personal experiences in both the legal and medical fields as having placed her in a unique position to observe cause and effect from legal, mental and physical perspectives, which such having provided impetus for her to share her knowledge.

“Being involved in both legal and medical the opportunity to see young women experience for example domestic violence, when they attend the hospital for facial bone x-ray due to physical abuse and then protecting the same demographic in the courts petitioning for protection orders to protect them,” said the author. “For several years this saddened me. I thought if I could only get them the education earlier then the statistics of this demographic group could be lowered.

“I recently volunteered for a group at Transformational Living Center which is now under ‘Home’s’ guidance, and the experiences of the young women further pushed me to create some type of preventative measures.

“[Additionally,] the persons who have inspired me are my mother, Mr. Chinapoo [my primary school teacher in Trinidad], Mrs. Elaine Butterfield [first manager at imaging Department BHB and former TLC director, Debra Blakeney, the late Heather Jacob Matthews, Justice Charles Etta Simmons, Arthur Hodgson [provided the opportunity for pupillage], Elizabeth Christopher and Justice Nicole Stoneham.

“The book has been in the making for months. A Christian mentor –Suzette at Glory Temple Church — encouraged me to pursue the book and other youth works. She kept sending me the message, ‘The youth need you!’.”

“Just Bee-Tween Us Girls’ serves to answer the call, offering great benefits for women of all ages even in its adolescent design.”

When not writing books or recording images at KEMH, Lares-Warner operates A. Justicia Law Chambers — ‘Justicia’ is the Spanish word for Justice — specialising in family, personal injury and civil law. She also works part-time for the government in Mental Health Court, Drug Court, Juvenile Court and Legal Aide.

Her education is a mixture of medical and legal, as she possesses a dual bachelor’s in Medical Imaging and Law with a Master of Law designation from BPP University, including electives in Insurance Law, Advanced Commercial Litigation and Corporate Finance.

Her career journey has been very varied, interesting and challenging. Her initial profession was as a teacher in the primary schools of Trinidad before moving to positions at hospitals in Trinidad, Bahamas, United States and Bermuda.

‘Just Bee-tween Us Girls’ is a result of the blend of professions.

Lares-Warner also has a boys’ legal book in the making which should be published in May.

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