Lincoln, NE -- Sexual Assault Program Coordinator -- Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition
Assistant Chief, Seattle Police Department
Project Director for Access and Advocacy, a project developed to ensure women with disabilities and women caretaking children with significant disabilities, have access to federally funded domestic violence intervention and shelter services. We provide technical assistance and resources to northern and rural DV programs in Nevada. Technical Assistance includes: translating shelter manuals to alternative formats and reviewing; program and shelter policies to help Boards identify policy that may have the effect of discriminating on the basis of disability; case management assist with disability specific client issues. We also provide advocacy directly to women with disabilities and women caretaking children with disabilities.
Legal Director, Battered Women's Alternatives. Our legal program does retraining orders, dissolutions, administers a pro bono program and a criminal advocacy program.
I am the Clinic Coordinator for the Article 16 clinic at the Arc of Monroe County. We provided rehabilitative therapy services to individuals with disabilities. I also volunteer as a Rape Crisis Counselor for Planned Parenthood of Rochester and the Syracuse Region. This is a 24 hour service and volunteers assist with crisis phone calls and hospital advocacy visits.
Christine Hansen, Executive Director, The Miles Foundation, Inc., is a human rights advocate, having worked with victims of violence since 1978. She holds degrees in international law and diplomacy, political science and sociology. She has also completed medical training. Christine continues to serve local, state, national and international governments in the development of policy and programs to enhance the response to violence against women, family violence and judicial reform. The government entities include Massachusetts Court Reform Commission, U.S. Department of Justice and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Professional service has also been furnished to Massachusetts Commission on Women, Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies and International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Christine is author of "A Considerable Service: An Advocate's Introduction to Domestic Violence and the Military," published by Domestic Violence Report, April/May 2001. She is also the author of various papers and monographs detailing the prevalence (The War At Home: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Violence in Military and Civilian Communities, 1998/1999; Violence Against Women Act of 1999, 1999/2000; Violence Against Women Associated with the Military: Facts and Findings, 1999; and Violence Against Women Associated with the Military, 2000); policies (Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban and the Military Community, 1997/1998/1999; Confidentiality of Communications for Victims of Violence Associated with the Military, 1998/1999; Victim's Rights, Benefits and Transitional Compensation within the Military Community, 1998; and Improving the US Armed Forces Response to Violence Against Women: Recommendations for Change, 1999); and practices (Frequently Asked Questions: Domestic Violence and the Military, 2001/2002) within a special population. Christine is co-author of Intimate Partner Violence and the Military: A Victim's Handbook. The Handbook has been utilized by over 6,000 victims to develop safety plans and create a safe and financially secure environment. The Handbook is a tool for advocates serving this special population. Christine is currently co-editing a special edition of the journal, Violence Against Women, dedicated to the military community. Two editions, domestic and international, are scheduled to be published in the near future. Christine has conducted trainings for military personnel and civilian community-based advocates throughout the United States and abroad, including the Nuclear Training Site, Ballston Spa, New York at the invitation of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (1999). She coordinated the first training institute on intimate violence within this special population (Training Institute: Intimate Violence and the Military, New London, Connecticut, 2001). Christine has presented at professional conferences, including Research Conference on Violence Against Women and Family Violence, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice (2000); and International Seminar on Militarism and Gender, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (1999). She has also spoken at the invitation of the Children's Defense Fund (1997) and Feminist Majority Foundation (2000). Christine has testified before members of Congress as well as presented briefings relative to prevalence, policy and programs within a special population, the military community (1997/1998/1999/2000/2001). The Miles Foundation, Inc. The Miles Foundation, Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive victim services to a special population, the military community; furnishes professional education and training to military personnel and civilian community-based advocates; conducts and supports research on family violence and sexual assault; serves as a resource center for advocates, policymakers, journalists, scholars, and students; conducts public education campaigns; and serves to ensure that public policy is well-informed and constructive.
Marc is the Founder and Executive Director of CAVNET. He is a former prosecutor with extensive experience prosecuting domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, child abuse, and hate crimes. He is also a former Special Assistant United States Attorney. He formerly served as Special Counsel to the Violence Against Women Office at the United States Department of Justice and is an expert in the federal civil rights of people with disabilities. As Special Counsel, Marc worked directly with Bonnie Campbell, the Director of the Office, and assisted in handling the Departments legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinating Departmental efforts, providing national and international leadership, receiving international visitors interested in learning about the federal governments role in addressing violence against women, and responding to requests for information regarding violence against women. The Office works closely with other components of OJP, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Immigration and Naturalization Office, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys Offices, and state, tribal and local jurisdictions.
Assistant City Attorney, San Diego City Attorneys Office. She is in charge of the Domestic Violence Unit and Special Projects for the Criminal Division. She regularly provides domestic violence training for domestic violence professionals across the country.
Professor, Boston College School of Social Work. Expert in workplace violence.
Attorney, Expert in domestic violence. Editor, Domestic Violence Report and Sexual Assault Report and is the author of the book, Violence Against Women (Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 2002).
Dr. Fein is director of the National Violence Prevention and Study Center in Cambridge and co-director of the Secret Service Safe School Initiative. He is a forensic psychologist who has worked on questions of interpersonal violence for 25 years, as a clinician, researcher, and administrator. He formerly served as a psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center.
Executive Director, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Christine White is a Legal Advocate for People with Developmental Disabilities in Madison, Wisconsin. In this capacity she helps people with developmental disabilities (mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury as per WI statutes) who are victims of crime understand the criminal justice system and what is expected of them. Likewise, she assists police, DAs, victim/witness, judges, and probation/parole understand the needs of people with DD and how to best communicate with them. She does training for the criminal justice system and the human service system.
Peter Sturman is a detective in the Metropolitan Police, London. He is responsible for development of a comprehensive report to the Home Office on the subject of drug-facilitated sexual assault, looking at all aspects of drug rape in the UK.
Anne O'Dell is now retired from STOPDV but is available online at Anne2215@aol.com. Anne ODell is a retired Detective Sergeant from the San Diego Police Department where she worked for 20 years. She is currently the Training Director for STOPDV, Inc. and has trained criminal justice, judicial and medical professionals in forty-nine states as well as Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Uzbekistan and the US Virgin Islands. She is an adjunct professor for the National College of District Attorneys and the California District Attorneys Association. She is a consultant for the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Justice and the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project of Duluth, Minnesota. She has consulted for the United States Information Agency in Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan. She is a board member of the National Center for Women in Policing and an advisory committee member for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. She is also a member of several other local and national associations which deal with domestic violence and stalking. She is the recipient of varied awards for her work including the Medal of Valor from the American Legion. She is the author of various articles regarding domestic violence and stalking. She is happily married, the mother of six children and the grandmother of seventeen. She is also a survivor of domestic violence, having left (and taking her six children) her batterer in 1975.
Vice President, Gavin De Becker, Inc. Gavin de Becker and Associates provides consultation and support to public figures, government agencies, corporations, and others who face high-stakes predictions of violence. Our eighty-five member firm advises media figures on safety and privacy. The Protective Security Division provides consultation, logistical support, advance work, and protective coverage for public figures. Our Threat Management Division evaluates and assesses inappropriate, alarming, and threatening communications and situations. We provide expert-witness consultation and testimony on court cases that involve stalking, threats, and the foreseeability or prevention of violence. We also develop artificial intuition systems known as MOSAIC®. We provide advanced training on the assessment of threats, case management, and the prediction of violent behavior to police departments, prosecutors, state and federal agencies, large corporations, and universities. Our training programs are tailored to meet individual and corporate needs.
A former prosecutor, Bob has prosecuted numerous cases of rape and sexual assault involving the use of Rohypnol and other drugs used to facilitate sexual assault and rape, and played a crucial role in enhancing the safety of women by assisting with the development of legislation in Florida concerning Rohypnol. He has testified before Congress, been a consultant to the Justice Department, and frequently lectures on this subject to law enforcement across the country. He is one of the foremost experts on the prosecution of drug-facilitated sexual assault in the country.
Frank R. Ascione, PhD Professor Department of Psychology Utah State University Logan, UTAH 84322-2810 Research Interests: Social development, prosocial and moral development, child maltreatment, Conduct Disorder, animal abuse and psychopathology, domestic violence Teaching Interests: Child and adolescent
Iowa -- Marion County Sheriff -- Experience/expertise: Member National Advisory Council Violence Against Women, Past President Iowa Sheriffs' and Deputies'Association, Member State of Iowa Violence Against Women Coordinating Council
President/CEO Barrier Free Living, Co-chair, Mental Health Committee of the New York City Task Force against Domestic Violence. Barrier Free Living is the provider of non-residential domestic violence services for victims with disabilities.
Law Professor, University of Texas. Survivor. Expert in domestic violence
Sherry Arndt RN, PHN, MPA, is currently writing, consulting and teaching around the USA. She conducts SART/SANE Institutes for communities starting SART/SANE (Sexual Assault Response Team/Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) Programs. She founded the first SANE program in California and coordinated that program from 1986 - 96. She is currently working on offering her second online course. Email: 4n6rn@prairie.lakes.com
Captain, Indiana University Police Department - Indianapolis Division
Trinka Porrata retired 2-99 from the Los Angeles Police Dept. as a detective supervisor in Narcotics Division, after 25 years of service. Porrata developed extensive expertise in the more unusual drugs of abuse--the "rape drugs," GHB and flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), and the rave party/club drugs, MDMA, ketamine, LSD, etc. She wrote the legislative proposals on GHB and flunitrazepam in California, has helped other states and is working on pending federal legislation. She also has extensive background in sexual assault and child abuse cases and is a consultant (trainer) for the California Department of Justice, Advanced Training Center, and the Drug Endangered Children (DEC) program, dealing with the removal of children from meth lab sites and prosecution of their parents for child endangerment.
Regional Director for the Washington, D.C. Chapter of Justice for Children www.jfcadvocacy.org
Nancy Harrington is executive director of the Montgomery County Women's Center, a nonprofit agency in Montgomery County, Texas, north of Houston. Services of the organization include a shelter for battered women, counseling services, a 24-hour hotline, education, advocacy, and legal representation by staff attorneys. All services are free of charge and are geared toward victims of family violence or sexual abuse in a three-county area (Montgomery/Harris/Liberty). Nancy serves as vice president of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, president of WOMAN, Inc. a Community Housing Development Organization serving battered women and their family leaving shelters, president of the Montgomery County Homeless Coalition, and on several other local and state groups serving victims of crime. She has a degree in journalism.
Nora is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Counseling Center of West Los Angeles. Her practice specializes in trauma and abuse related issues, depression and anxiety, children and adults with disabilities, sex therapy, couple counseling, and gerontology. Area(s) of expertise include forensic interviewing & training of law enforcement personnel; risk reduction protocols; reporting skills; treatment of victims of assault; and serving as an expert witness for developmental disability cases. Contact Information: P.O. Box "T" Culver City, Ca 90230
Mike McCarty is the Director of the Public Training Institute and Breaking the Cycle, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in training seminars on the issue of violence against women and children. He facilitates workshops on awareness and intervention in domestic violence and sexual assault for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, advocates, social workers, health care providers, therapists, correctional professionals, security companies and corporate/ EAP programs. Mike was one of the original detectives with the Domestic Violence Division in Nashville, Tennessee and was instrumental in implementing the community-based program. Nashville's Domestic Violence Unit has been labeled a model program by the U.S. Department of Justice and former President Clinton and has been adopted by communities throughout the world. Mike facilitates training seminars throughout the United States for organizations such as: U.S. Department of Justice- Violence Against Women Office; U.S. Department of Defense; Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; National Center for Women and Policing; Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project; Indiana Resource & Training Institute on Violence Against Women; Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault; Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault;Alabama Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Kentucky Domestic Violence Association; Kentucky Sexual Assault Association; Kentucky Governor's Office; National Training Center for Domestic and Sexual Violence; South East Missouri State University; NBD Bank. Mike is also on the Advisory Board for Communities Against Violence Network (CAVNET) headquartered in Washington D.C. He graduated from Wabash College with a B.A. in History and Psychology and is currently working on a M.A. in Criminology.
Dick Sobsey is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta. He has worked with children and adults with severe developmental disabilities since 1968 as a nurse and a teacher. Since 1987, he has been engaged in extensive research on the relationship between violence and disability. He has published many articles and books on this topic including Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities. Dick Sobsey is also the father of two children including a school-aged son with a severe developmental disability. Dick Sobsey, Director JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre University of Alberta 6-123 Education North Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5 Canada
Dr. Randy Borum is Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. He is a licensed psychologist and is Board-Certified (ABPP) and fellowship-trained in Forensic Psychology. Prior to coming to USF, Dr. Borum was Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at Duke University Medical Center. He has previously served as Forensic Coordinator for a regional state psychiatric facility, and as a sworn police officer for municipal departments in Maryland and Florida. His areas of research and publication have focused on violence risk assessment, understanding and preventing violent behavior, and the interface between mental health and criminal/juvenile justice. He regularly conducts risk assessment training for mental health and school personnel, and for professionals in the justice system and secure intelligence community. Dr. Borum is currently a consultant to the U.S. Secret Service, Intelligence Division in the National Threat Assessment Center, and Advisory Board Member for the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. He is also the co-principal investigator in the Coordinating Center (led by Research Triangle Institute)for SAMSHSA's multi-site Criminal Justice Diversion Initiative for Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorders. He currently serves as Secretary of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.
Executive Director, Silent Witness Project, http://www.silentwitness.net/
I am the Policy Development Coordinator at the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence. I have previously worked as the Director of the Domestic Violence Unit at the Dane Co. WI District Attorney's Office (6 years) and as a System's Change Advocate at Dane County Advocates for Battered Women, Madison, WI (7 years).
Jo Dyer is a Senior Toxicology Management Specialist with the California Poison Control System - San Francisco Division and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco. She published the early reports describing the clinical effects from illicit use of gamma hydroxybutyric acid and its precursors. As a clinical toxicologist and pharmacist she has extensive knowledge of the clinical effects, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the drugs used to facilitate assault. She has provided expert testimony on gamma hydroxybutyric acid and drug facilitated assault to the courts in drug facilitated assault trials, to the California legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives. Current research involves correlating GHB blood levels to level of consciousness.
I am the staff coordinator of the Sexual Assault Counseling program at the Listening Ear Crisis Intervention Center. We are an all-volunteer organization in East Lansing, Michigan. I have been through over 100 hours of training and am responsible for the training of new sexual assault counselors.
Laramie, Wyoming -- Executive Director, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) -- Professor of Social Work
Karla Kerlin is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County currently assigned as a Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy District Attorney. For eight years, Karla vertically prosecuted sex crimes and child abuse cases. Karla frequently trains on sex crimes and child abuse, and is a faculty member for the childPROOF course sponsored by the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse of APRI. Karla can be reached at: kkerlin@lacountyda.org
Plainfield IN -- Indiana Law Enforcement Academy -- Training Consultant, Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. Former road officer, rape crisis counselor. Expertise:sexual assault, domestic violence. Wendy Perkins is the Director of Training at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy for all sexual assault trainings. She conducts trainings both at the academy and in the field for law enforcement throughout Indiana. She is available for other trainings on sexual violence issues and may be contacted via email wendyperkins@hotmail.com or phone 317-423-0233. She has developed and presented many tailored workshops on drug facilitated sexual assault, sexual assault on the college campus, and child sexual abuse. Wendy Perkins is a consultant for the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault (INCASA).
President, Disability Information Services, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Lt. Jeffrey A. Teuscher Dane County Sheriff's Office Third Watch Shift Commander BS-Upper Iowa University I have 15 years of law enforcement experience. I have been involved with police training in the area of domestic violence investigation since 1995. I have trained police officers state wide in Wisconsin via VAWA. Teuscher@co.dane.wi.us
Sarah is a Native American attorney with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and a former staff attorney of the Office on Violence Against Women at the United States Department of Justice. The Tribal Law and Policy Institute is a Native American owned and operated non-profit corporation organized to design and deliver education, research, training, and technical assistance programs which promote the enhancement of justice in Indian country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples. Sarah is a citizen of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.
Director of Victim Services for National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)
Executive Director, Sexual Assault and Crime Victims Assistance Program for Rensselaer County, Troy, NY.
Andrea J. Martin, LPCC Assistant Director North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services/ Coalition Against Sexual Assault 418 E Rosser Avenue #320 Bismarck, ND 58501
I am the Deferred Prosecution Director in the Dane County District Attorney's Office, Madison, WI. I have worked in the battered women's movement since 1978.
Judy Benitez is executive director of Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, Louisiana's state coalition of sexual assault crisis centers and other agencies and individuals concerned about sexual violence. She has held this position since 1993. Prior to working for LaFASA, she worked at a local rape crisis center, Tri-Parish Victim Assistance Rape Crisis Program, which is under the 21st District Attorney's Office in the Hammond, Louisiana, area. Before entering the field of victim services, Judy was a newspaper reporter. She has worked for the Hammond, La., Daily Star, the Syracuse, N.Y., Herald-Journal, and the Danville, Virg., Register. She is a graduate of Syracuse University. As part of her current position, she serves on the Victim Services Advisory Board to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, as well as the Victim Services Advisory Group to the Louisiana Department of Corrections. She is also a past president of the board of directors of the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She is scheduled to complete a master's degree in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University in Dec., 1999.
Assistant Trauma Coordinator Stanford/LPCH Trauma Services I am the assistant Trauma coordinator for a large university medical center here in the bay area california as well as being one of the nurse examiners for the county sexual assault and domestic violence response teams.
Kathy W. Walker, MSW, LMSW, is Executive Director of Rape Response Services, the sexual assault crisis center which serves Penobscot and Piscataquis counties from offices in Bangor, ME.
Julie Kunce Field (B.A., Univ. of Nebraska; J.D. Univ. of Chicago) was a law professor at Washburn Law School and the University of Michigan for 10 years. Since 1999, she has been a domestic violence consultant, providing training and curricula to attorneys, judges, law students, advocates, police and others on a variety of domestic violence legal issues. She is currently completing work on a book entitled "The Confidentiality Manual: Protecting Confidentiality of Victim-Counselor Communications."
Anita Batman, M.D. Regional Health Administrator U. S. Public Health Service, Region III Dr. Anita Batman has been a Commissioned Corps Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Since 1975. She has been Regional Health Administrator of the Mid-Atlantic Region since November 1995. As Regional Health Administrator, Dr. Batman serves as the principle official in the Mid-Atlantic Region (PA, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV) providing oversight and coordination to the programs of the U. S. Public Health Service. She participates in policy development and implementation. She directs and coordinates the Regional Programs of the OPHS, including the Offices of Emergency Preparedness, Minority Health, Women's Health, and Population Affairs, as well as overseeing the CDC's National Immunization Program Regional Outreach Coordinator. She develops Regional public health goals and objectives consistent with the needs of the population and in conformity with national health priorities and objectives. Dr. Batman was, for 8 years prior to this, the Regional Clinical Coordinator. In that capacity she helped found CRAN, a regional network of clinicians at Bureau of Primary Health Care-funded projects, and was instrumental in the development of software for computerized chart audit which automated the production of Federally mandated reports, as well as generating data for clinical research and quality improvement. She developed the database of clinicians working in federally funded healthcare systems, in order to communicate with the clinicians, support them, and track factors that best promoted retention. She developed the orientation curriculum and handbook for new Medical Directors for the Region, and pro-actively arranged professional education, particularly in the areas of clinical leadership and response to violence. Dr. Batman had a long career as National Health Service Corps Physician, providing care for underserved areas and high risk populations, including in the deep South, Appalachia, migrant health and urban inner-city. These experiences have included collaboration with State and local health department staff in the provision of perinatal and pediatric care, as well as clinics for chronic disease. Her areas of expertise have included: Family Practice; high volume/low risk obstetrical care; family centered obstetrical delivery systems and education, victim of violence recognition, advocacy, and primary care support; family planning; clinical systems. Engineering and medical: leadership, management and quality assurance. Prior research experience: SIDS, State vital statistics reports, perinatal systems, G6PD deficiency, Plethismography in abnormal sexuality, Birthweight vs. maternal smoking, Creativity vs. Intelligence study, laminar flow, wing design in STOL, semiconduction in C-6 Hydrocarbons, primary care management of battery and abuse victims and assessing the frequency of trauma-related encounters in primary health services. Dr. Batman has been active in professional and grass-roots organizations addressing interpersonal violence, and has since 1987 maintained part-time, private no-charge counseling practice for victims of abuse. She serves two days a month as a volunteer physician in a family planning clinic in Camden, NJ. Dr. Batman is a Board Certified Family Practitioner, trained at the University of Mississippi. She was originally a mechanical engineer, with an undergraduate degree in Physics, cum laude, from Smith College in Northampton MA, engineering courses from Mississippi State University, and graduate work in physics at Columbia University. Awards: PHS Citation '82 for service to an underserved isolated community, PHS Citation '84 for significant reduction in perinatal mortality in a rural county, PHS Commendation '92, Citation of State of New Jersey Commission on Sex Discrimination in the Statutes '94, Citation of Delaware River Port Authority for roadside resuscitation of an MVA victim, Regional Director's Citation '93, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service '96, and '97. PHS Outstanding Service Medal '96, PHS Bicentennial medal '98, outstanding Unit Citation '99, and Crisis response Medal '99 for service in the Kosovar Medical Clinic, Fr. Dix, NJ. Dr. Batman has numerous publications and lectures in the areas of interpersonal violence, perinatal care, medical quality assurance, SIDS, and clinical systems and roles in Community and Migrant Health Centers. She contributed a chapter for the book "Hostage Children," on abuse of children as custodial pawns, Rosen and Etlin, Indiana University Press 9/96.
Ron Eltzeroth,MA,MS,MSW. Director - Sexual Assault Crisis Services, YWCA, Danville, IL 61832. Office: 217-446-1337, Hotline: 217-443-5566. SACS is a full service agency for all sexually assaulted individuals.
Linda is former Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office (Manhattan), and had been a prosecutor in the office for 27 years. Linda has expertise in the investigation and prosecution of: sexual assault cases, homicides, domestic violence and child abuse matters, the criminal justice system, stalking, cyberstalking, and internet crimes. She is Chair of the New York Women's Agenda Domestic Violence Coalition. Linda speaks to community groups and lectures nationally and internationally to law enforcement agencies, and trains police and prosecutors, medical and health care providers. Linda is also a respected author, having written nonfiction and a series of fictional crime novels --Final Jeopardy, Likely To Die, and her newest, Cold Hit.
Tucson, AZ - I am the Executive Director for the Wingspan Domestic Violence Project in Tucson, AZ. We provide outreach and services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender vicitms of same-sex domestic violence.
I began working against domestic violence and other forms of violence against women in 1979 as a volunteer for the shelter in Eugene, Oregon, while working on my Ph.D. Two years later, I moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where I volunteered for the Phoenix Rape and Battering Hotline, Women Take Back the Night and Maricopa County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. I worked for the NARAL affiliate in Phoenix for one year, and then for Jewish Family and Children Services until 1990. In 1991, I moved to Portland, Oregon, and was the Executive Director for a domestic violence victim services program there (Bradley-Angle House). In 1994, I was hired by the county government to staff the local domestic violence coordinating committee, and have worked in that position since then. I have done extensive training with police both in Phoenix and Portland, and as a featured speaker at a community policing conference in Appleton, Wisconsin. At Bradley-Angle House, I was responsible for the purchase and development of a transitional facility. I have been instrumental in obtaining over $1 million in local government funding for domestic violence programs over the last 8 years.
Traverse City, Michigan - I work as the Legal Advocate at the Women's Resource Center in Traverse City, Michigan. I am also the chairwoman for the Michigan Coalition's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered and Allies Task Force.
Kim A. Collins, MD Chief Medical Examiner MUSC-Forensic Pathology Charleston, SC
Urban Emergency Department RN
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Missouri - Columbia --
Director of Operations for the Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am also a Forensic Nurse and perform forensic examinations on sexual assault patients.
Attorney. Former Director of the Violence Against Women Office at the US Department of Justice.
I am currently a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate for the Seattle Police Department. I also volunteered for the Seattle Police Department's Victim Support Team providing support/resources to domestic violence victims immediately after a police intervention for 1 1/2 yrs. prior to current role with SPD. I worked as a Case Manager for a Child Protective Services early intervention program serving many families dealing with various kinds of family violence and abuse. I was the Shelter Coordinator for a confidential domestic violence shelter (Domestic Abuse Women's Network--DAWN) in WA for two years. I served a graduate school internship at the Center Against Sexual Abuse in Phoenix providing sexual abuse prevention education in elementary schools as well as working on the state crisis line and conducting intakes for the Counseling department.
City of Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center Coordinator of Nursing Services Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Memphis, TN
University of Wisconsin. My position at University Health Services is Relationship Violence Prevention Coordinator. I spearhead prevention activities and encourage and support intervention efforts on campus and the community as they impact the campus community. My experience on the issue of Dating-Domestic Violence spans a 20-year period. I started a safe-home and crisis intervention service in Northern Wisconsin, did Community Education through a shelter in Madison, WI and established an in-school prevention program for High School age students. Additionally, I facilitated educational sessions for men who were court ordered into counseling after having been arrested on battery charges. I also was the State Representative to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in the 1980's and served as a member and chair of the WI Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Now a consultant and attorney in private practice, Seth Goldstein, is the Executive Director of the Child Abuse Forensic Institute, which he created in 1992. He was the investigator and Project Director for the Child Abuse Vertical Prosection Unit of the Napa County District Attorney, Napa, California for four years. He also worked as an investigator with the Santa Clara County District Attorney, San Jose, California, for three years. He now represents parents in Family Law, Juvenile, and Personal Injury matters wherein child abuse allegations have arisen. He worked for the Berkeley, California, Police Department for thirteen years - three as a cadet and ten as a police officer. He served in the Patrol, Service, and Detective Divisions of the police department, including two years as a Juvenile Officer. He grew up in Berkeley and holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, at Berkeley. He was conferred a J.D. degree from the Oakland College of Law and was admitted to the California Bar in 1995. He was, formally, the Chairman of the Northern California Juvenile Officers Association Committee on Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Children and has served as the Association's President and editor of its newsletter. He has presented at seminars and workshops throughout the country and in Europe, including the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va. He has written several articles on the subject of sexual abuse and exploitation of children which have been published nationally and has received several awards for his work, including the American Bar Association's (ABA) Gavel Award in 1980, the California State Juvenile Officer's Dan Pursuit Award (Officer of the Year), in 1990, and the ABA, Child Advocacy, National Certificate of Recognition for Significant Legal Contributions Advancing the Welfare of Our Nation's Children, in 1997. He is the author of the textbook The Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Investigation, and Intervention, now in its second edition, published by CRC Press. He has testified as an expert witness in court, including a branch of the Florida Supreme Court, as well as numerous California and Federal legislative commissions and committees. He sat on the California and United States Department of Justice Committees that created investigative and academy curriculum for investigations of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. He was a consultant to National Resource Center on Sexual Abuse of Children and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). He sat on the California Attorney General's Violent Crime Information Systems Advisory Group and was a founding Member of the Board of Directors of the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children. In April of 1985, was invited to the White House to meet with President Ronald Reagan about the issue of missing and exploited children.
Deputy District Attorney, San Bernardino County, California. Prosecuting sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse.
Gail Abarbanel is the founder and director of the nationally recognized Rape Treatment Center (RTC)at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Founded in 1974, the RTC has provided treatment for over 20,000 sexual assault victims, pioneered model programs for victim care that are used across the country, produced award-winning educational films and written materials that are distributed nationwide, and created prevention programs for middle-school and high school children and a national campus rape program that reaches colleges throughout the United States. Ms. Abarbanel has authored publications on rape and rape treatment; provided training for schools, medical, mental health, law enforcement, and criminal justice agencies; provided expert testimony in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings. She has authored landmark legislation to give victims legal rights and protections in the criminal justice system and served served as a consultant to the entertainment industry, including television shows such as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, ER, NYPD Blue, and Chicago Hope. She has appeared on many television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, and Good Morning America. Ms. Abarbanel also founded Stuart House, an internationally recognized model program designed to meet the special needs of sexually abused children. Ms. Abarbanel serves on the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women.
1987 to present: Sheridan County and Prosecuting Attorney, Sheridan, Wyoming. 1998 to present: President of the Wyoming County and Prosecuting Attorneys Association. Member: American Prosecutor Research Institute, DNA Advisory Group; American Prosecutor Research Institute Victim/Witness Project Advisory Group; Wyoming Attorney General's Victim Services Advisory Committee; Wyoming Attorney General's VAWA/VOCA Grants Review Committee Speaking Engagements: American Prosecutor Research Institute; National Advocacy Center; National College of District Attorneys; Wyoming State Bar; Wyoming Judicial Council; Five State Judicial Conference; Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy; University of Wyoming School of Law.
Representative, Wyoming State Legislature, House District 45, Albany County, 615 E. Clark Street, Laramie, Wyoming 82072. Member, Judiciary Committee
Senior Forensic Scientist, Biology Unit, State Crime Laboratory, Office of the Attorney General, Division of Criminal Investigation, 316 West 22nd Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002
Mesa Police Department. Area(s) of Expertise: domestic violence, sexual assault. I began the Mesa Police Dept. Victim Assistance Program in June 1993. Presently work as Victim Services Administrator at Center Against Family Violence. Oversee staff of six employee's and 42 volunteers. Do on-scene crisis intervention, information and referral. Work with victims of all crimes but specialize in d.v. and sexual assault here at the Center Against Family Violence.
Staff Attorney for the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Laramie, Wyoming. Education: B.S. Forest Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Fall 1980 J.D. University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, WY, Spring 1988 Significant Employment: U.S. Forest Service, Saratoga and Laramie, WY, Forestry Technician, 1981-1985 Evergreen Legal Services, Aberdeen, Washington, Staff Attorney, 1989-1992 Legal Services for Southeastern Wyoming / Wyoming Legal Services, Cheyenne, WY, Senior Staff Attorney, 1993-1998 Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Laramie, WY, Staff Attorney, 1998-present Personal: Born and raised (mostly) in Denver, CO. Married Meg Van Baalen in 1982, son born in 1991, Samuel.
National Marketing Director, Planned Television Arts ARIC L. CAPLANAs national marketing director of Planned Television Arts (PTA), a division of Ruder Finn, Aric Caplan supplies proactive media advocacy for a diverse practice area of public interest groups, charitable nonprofits, industry associations and healthcare advocates. A sample of clients include Goodwill Industries, Inc., Volunteers of America, Points of Light Foundation, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility and others. Mr. Caplan's specialty is branding and positioning a client's newsworthiness. He has worked strenuously to make others' outreach more effective and has been recognized for targeting outreach strategies at key audiences. He consulted for various political campaigns and ballot initiatives during the '96, '98, '00 and 2002 election cycles. Major U.S. publishing houses and many individual authors have also relied on his counsel, especially when launching influential books at specific markets. Consequently, Mr. Caplan has built an invaluable network of print and broadcast journalists nationwide. Mr. Caplan launched his media career at historic KDKA, the world's first commercially licensed radio station. He served as Executive Producer of the #1-rated "John Cigna Show" for five years. His contributions prepared him for directing all aspects of news and talk programming as program director at WJNO-AM in West Palm Beach, FL. There, Mr. Caplan's greatest satisfactions were coaching on-air announcers and redefining the station's air product to attract a larger share of the listening audience. Mr. Caplan graduated with a BS in Communications Media from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 1988. He and his family reside in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.
Executive Director, Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Previous experience in welfare and women's rights issues. MSW from University of Alabama. Part-time instructor in community social work practice and social work policy.
Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa
Omaha, Nebraska -- Director, Psychological Services, Boys Town National Research Hospital.
M.D. Director, Sexual Assault Education, California Medical Training Center, UC Davis Health System. Sacramento, CA
Sergeant, Domestic Violence Squad 20 years with the Orange County Sheriff's Office 4 years supervisor of the Domestic Violence Squad Orlando, Florida 32839
Technical Assistance Director for the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault (INCASA). I am currently working on minimum standards for sexual assault service providers and advocates. My duties include troubleshooting for member organizations, research and referral and special projects. My background includes 3 years as an advocate in a battered womans shelter, 4 years in prosecution based victims assistance, grant research and writing and training.
Police officer for 13 years. Recently became training officer for departmment. I am a Firearms Instructor and EVOC Instructor. Just became DV Instructor.
Christi Sanders-Huskison is Program Director for The Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia. She is responsible for the Prevention Education and Volunteer programs of The Center.
Currently with the New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives (a state-level regulatory and oversight agency). Assigned to a VAWA-supported grant project to develop best practice protocols, guidelines, and policies for various probation functions (investigation, supervision, pre-trial programming, etc.) and then conduct statewide training (to 58 county probation departments) as to implementation. The project is a collaborative effort which also involves the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For two years previous to this, Cogswell worked as a Grant Administrator at the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services - the State Administrative Agency for federal funds. Started in the field of Probation as a Probation Officer (for Family Court) in 1978 and during the next 16 years was responsible for crafting various departmental policies, annual reports, and directories, as well as developing a community service program (as an alternative to incarceration) and a coordinated community response to domestic violence which was based primarily on the Duluth model.
I am an Assistant District Attorney in the Domestic Violence Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
I am the Chief Assistant District Attorney for Alameda County District Attorney's Office in Oakland, California. I am also the Chair of the Sexual Assault Committee for the California District Attorney's Association (CDAA) and serve on the Domestic Violence Committee for CDAA as well. I am the training consultant/technical advisor for the sexual assault training of all California prosecutors and participate in Police Officer Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence training through POST. I am directly responsible for creating programs, working on legislation and overseeing the prosecution of all crimes of violence against women. I serve on the California Violence Against Women/STOP Task Force.
Assistant County Attorney Domestic Violence/ Sexual Assault Unit Jefferson County Attorney 531 Court Place, Suite 1001 Louisville, Kentucky 40202
I am the Chief of the Criminal Division for crimes of violence against women, children, the elderly, and intimate partners for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. I have prosecuted felony domestic violence cases for nine years and have been an Assistant District Attorney for 15 years. In 1997, I traveled to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovenia where I conducted several trainings on domestic violence issues and worked with law enforcement personnel on prosecuting crimes of violence against women. I am currently conducting a study on the disparity of treatment of monolingual immigrant domestic violence victims who enter the criminal justice system. I have also written a guidebook for prosecutors regarding battered immigrant women's issues. If you are interested in obtaining a copy, you can contact Volcano Press at 1-800-879-9636.
Deputy Director of Programs for Battered Women's Alternatives, a domestic violence agency in Contra Costa County.
I head up an initiative at the Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities which draws connections between caregiver abuse and domestic violence and that pilots an innovative project providing advocacy to victims of violence and technical assistance to law enforcement and social services.
Acting Director, Public Policy, National Center for Victims of Crime
I am a Lieutenant with the Bella Vista, Arkansas Sheriff's Office.
I am a Detective for the Oceanside Police Department, Oceanside, California, assigned to investigate Elder Abuse.
Sharon Brooks Chief, Protective Orders Division Travis County Attorney's Office Texas
Executive Director Arizona Sexual Assault Network Phoenix, Arizona
Executive Director Psychological Services Center Oakland, CA I am the executive director of the Psychological Services Center which is the training clinic and grants and contracts center of the Alameda campus of the California School of Professional Psychology. Our primary clinic is in downtown Oakland, CA where we see fairly seriously impaired people who can not afford to see psychologists in private practice and people who are covered by medical assistance. In addition to our general clinical services, we have two primary foci: domestic violence and child/adolescents. In the former program we provide individual and group therapy for victims (women , children, and some men) and perpetrators (male and female, mostly mandated). Most of our child services consist of assessments or evaluations for county agencies such as child protective services and individual or group therapy which we provide, again under county contract, in school settings throughout Alameda County. Many if not most of those children and teens are victims of violence and a substantial segment also are perpetrators by now. I am a research social psychologist and currently am focusing most of my research activity on domestic violence--evaluation of shelter-based programs, needs assessments for teen services in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the like.
Consultant for Domestic Violence Programming with a focus on rural communities.
I am the Vice President of Corporate Relations for an Austin, TX based employee assistance program called Resources for Living. I am an on-site consultant for Wal-Mart providing consultation and assistance to their home office management and associates. I also consult with them in the development of policies and plans on such issues as Domestic Violence, Workplace Violence, and Work/Life. I sit on the Benton County Domestic Violence Council.
Chippewa County District Attorney, Chippewa Falls, WI
Director Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program 202 Huddleston Hall 73 Main Street Durham, NH 03824
I am hired under the VAWA STOP grant by the City of Seattle, WA as the "Domestic Violence Training & Education Coordinator." I oversee the prosecution portion of the STOP grant.
Assistant District Attorney Domestic Violence Unit 12th Judicial District Attorney's Office 1000 New York Avenue, Room 301 Alamogordo, NM 88310
I am a retired criminal investigator and coroner who is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven. I have nearly thirty years of experience in the death investigation process and specialize in analyzing equivocal death cases. For more information please visit my web site at "www.jma-forensics.com".
Crime Laboratory Director, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Barry Fisher grew up in New York City. In 1966, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the City College of New York, followed in 1969 with a Master of Science degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University. He also holds an M.B.A. degree from California State University, Northridge, which he completed in 1973. In 1969, Barry joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department crime laboratory. He has worked in most of the sections of the laboratory and supervised the Trace Evidence and Toxicology Sections. In 1987, he was appointed the Crime Laboratory Director. The Sheriff's Crime Laboratory is one of the largest municipal laboratories in the United States. A staff of 180 people is involved in crime scene investigations, fingerprint identification, photography, polygraph, question documents, firearms, toxicology, narcotics analysis, forensic biology, forensic DNA testing and trace evidence examination. Cases run from straight forward blood alcohol tests to complex serial murder investigations as well as every other imaginable type in between and employee drug testing. The laboratory routinely processes over 70,000 criminal cases a year and is accredited by the American Academy of Crime Laboratory Directors - Laboratory Accreditation Board. Mr. Fisher is a member of several professional organizations. He is a Fellow and past-president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He is past-president of the International Association of Forensic Sciences and hosted the 15th triennial meeting of the IAFS in Los Angeles in August 1999, at UCLA. Fisher is a past-president of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors and a past-chairman of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Forensic Science Technology Center which provides forensic science continuing education, nationwide. His textbook, Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation enjoys wide popularity. An international speaker, Fisher has lectured in Canada, England, Australia, Singapore, France, Israel and Japan on forensic science laboratory management practices, quality assurance and related topics. He is also a part-time lecturer at UCLA Extension in the Department of the Sciences and the Department of the Arts, Writers Program, and an adjunct professor at California State University, Los Angeles, Department of Criminal Justice.
Germany. Prof. Dr. jur. Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Victimology ; President, World Society of Victimology University of Applied Scienes Lower Rhineland; School of Social Studies Rheydter Strasse 232, 41065 Moenchengladbach, Germany
Dispatcher at SDSU Police Department Lakeside, CA. Involved with DV training for dispatchers.
Domestic Violence prosecutor/instructor from the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office; also heads their DV Unit. City of Santa Monica, CA
Director, Center for Research on Women With Disabilities (CROWD), Baylor College of Medicine. CROWD is a research center that focuses on issues related to health, aging, civil rights, abuse, and independent living. The violence section ranges in information from academic papers to resources, including information about a resource kit and 10 things Independent Living Center's can do to address violence. CROWD is located at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.
I am the director of a domestic violence shelter in a rural community in VA -- Safehome Systems, Inc., Covington, VA
Legal Services Director, SafePlace,Austin, TX
Crisis Services of North Alabama, Inc., Huntsville, AL Name: R. Leann White Address: P.O. Box 368, Huntsville, AL 35804 Phone: (256) 534-4052 Fax: (256) 539-6873 Email you subscribe under: leann@hsvhelpline.org Listservs to which you subscribe: CAVNET Job: Attorney Background/Experience/Expertise: I am staffed full time with a domestic violence shelter and provide legal representation to victims.
I am the sexual assault prevention educator and crisis intervention counselor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Molly Dragiewicz is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Justice, and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of technology. Her research interests include violence and gender, human trafficking, and human rights.
Executive Director, American Association of Suicidology (AAS), Washington, D.C. Expert in suicide issues. http://www.suicidology.org
Benton County Women's Shelter -- Bentonville, AR
Wyoming Coalition Against DV & SA
Patience Press came into being because I couldnt find a publisher for Why Is Daddy Like He Is? a book for children of veterans which gives kids a simple explanation of the symptoms of PTSD and why PTSD is not the their fault.(They always think it is.) Mainstream publishers werent interested--they said Vietnam vets are too old to have kids! I decided to publish it myself. I also publish one called Why IS Mommy Like She Is? for children of women trauma survivors I write for all trauma survivors, family members, friends and therapists. I am dedicated to writing about PTSD in a healing way, no matter what type of trauma is involved. Whether you lost a family member on Flight 800 or survied Hurricane Andrew, whether you have been a battered person, survived child sexual abuse, rape, fire, flood, or combat, everything I write is intended to help you recover. You did not deserve whatever you endured. You didnt cause it even if other people blame you for it. It is normal to be affected by trauma, and you deserve to recover. I offer a wide variety of resources, because different people need different things to recover. Families are quite naturally affected by living with a trauma survivor, so I write for them too. I want to supply you with information about the normal effects of trauma up to and including PTSD. I also want to give you hope for recovery. I have a very personal reason for writing about PTSD. My husband Robert Mason's Vietnam memoirs, Chickenhawk and Chickenhawk: Back In The World and my book, Recovering from the War, describe how we lived with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder when it didn't have a name and wasn't supposed to exist. When Bob came back from his tour as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1st Cav, 65-66), problems developed. We lived with PTSD for 14 years during which I felt there was something wrong with me because I couldn't make him happy. He thought he was crazy. We did not associate any of it with Vietnam. Survivors of all kinds of trauma and their families have had similar experiences. Recovering From The War was published by Viking/Penguin in 1990. When they let it go out of print, I re-published it in a new paperback Patience Press edition. My desire is to provide information which will keep other people from having to go through what we went through. I want everyone to know that it is normal to be affected by trauma. As the wife of a person with PTSD, I also know just how damaging conventional attitudes about PTSD can be. "Why arent you over it?" is the perennial question of the arrogant and idiotic, the thoughtless and ill-informed, or the traumatized and numb. That question is part of the reason why I write about PTSD. When someone asks why you or someone you know isnt over it, I want you to have an answer, whether you are a survivor, family member, friend or therapist.
Deputy Attorney General, New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice -- I have developed training programs for basic academy course for all law enforcement officers in the State on domestic violence laws and procedures. I also have developed domestic violence training programs for continuing in-service training for law enforcement officers Part of my other duties include responding to inquiries from prosecutors or police regarding legal issues that pertain to them regarding domestic violence, firearms, use of force, search and seizure, etc. I also investigate and respond to citizen complaints regarding police or prosecutors and review and comment on pending legislation. I am the legal advisor to the State Police Firearms Unit and the legal advisor to the firearms advisory committee of the Police Training Commission. I developed the instructor resource material on use of force, search and seizure and other criminal law subjects that are taught in all police academies in New Jersey that are approved by the Police Training Commission. I lecture on domestic violence; arrest, search and seizure; use of force, and other subjects in courses conducted by the Division of Criminal Justice. I also lecture on use of force for in-service training for State Investigators, the basic course for firearms instructors and range master updates. I also conduct in-service training programs on domestic violence throughout the state for law enforcement officers.
I am a grad student at the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University.
I am currently a doctoral candidate at California School of Professional Psychology at Alameda. I have worked for years as a crisis counselor for survivors of sexual assault. I have also co-facilitated support groups for battered women and conducted focus-group research over the past year with battered women and shelter workers in order to assess the need for services in the bay area. I am currently working at a substance abuse treatment facility where I am starting a group for female clients dealing with abuse issues. I am in the Psychology of Women emphasis area at my school and am doing research on issues related to domestic violence.
I am on sabbatical from the faculty of Bloomsburg University, PA to finish my Ph.D. in counseling at The Ohio State University. My master's thesis (Penn State) was on battered women and I am doing my doctoral dissertation research on the same. In particular, I am interested in the utility of using gestalt resistance theory therapeutically with women survivors. I am looking for information for my review of the literature and to ascertain whether phenomenological approaches help or hinder recovery. I have been in the counseling field since 1974 and have been on the board of director's of two women shelters.
Paralegal for the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
Children's Inn is a domestic violence shelter in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I am a Program Supervisor.
Ph.D. James Marshall Public Policy Scholar American Psychological Association Public Policy Office, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242
District Attorney of Clinton County, New York since 1989
In the coming year, the Surgeon General will be preparing a report on Youth Violence. The point person on that report will be Dr. Allan Noonan. Dr. Noonan has been, among other things, State Health Officer for Pennsylvania, Health Commissioner for the District of Columbia, and Regional Health Administrator of USPHS Region 5: the mid-west (Chicago) region.
I am a Police Officer for the City of Chandler (AZ) and am currently assigned to the Community Services Division and am responsible for Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Education in the schools, community and dept. training. Please Visit our department website at www.chandlercrimestop.com
I'm an assistant professor and my research is in domestic violence and sexual assault. I mostly work internationally with women's groups, setting up services and crisis centers. Locally, I am conducting research with offenders to find out their views on women and neighborhood norms of violence against women. I have published on dv in Russia in American Psychologist and just returned from Romania where I was working with them to set up crisis services.
Executive Director Lafayette Crisis Center
Minority Counsel Subcommittee on Constitution House Judiciary Committee
Police Officer -- San Diego Harbor Police
Working at Knox Co. Juvenile Court, Tennessee
Teen Outreach Coordinator of Teen Outreach Program - Center for Domestic Violence Prevention of San Mateo County, California. Expereince includes: San Francisco District Attorney's Family Violence Project; Counselor/Advocate; Kipperman & Johns law firm, San Francisco, CA; Legal Assistant; Community Children's Project, Jackson, Wyoming; Teacher; Teton County Task Force, Jackson, Wyoming; Volunteer Advocate.
Praxis, International
Deputy, Putnam County Sheriff's Office
Bolton Refuge Housel, in Eau Claire -- I am the Volunteer Coordinator/Grantwriter and one of the Advocates for victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
Deputy District Attorney --San Diego County DA's Office
Chief of Police Red Bluff Police Department 555 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080
Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services
Police. Rijeka, Croatia.
Sexual Trauma Resource Center, Northern New Jersey
Special Asst. Attorney General,Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit, RI Dept. of Attorney General
Special Asst. Attorney General,Chief - Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit,RI Dept. of Attorney General
I work for University of Arkansas Medical Sciences-University Affiliated Program. Our mission has to do with improving the lives of people with disabilities and their families. In 1998 we were asked by the Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence to help them to better serve people with disabilities- primarily rape prevention by helping existing rape and sexual assault programs to better serve people with disabilities This project has taken on many different directions since we have become involved with crime and victim issues. I am also the training coordinator for the Arkansas ADA Roundtable, a group of individuals and organizations that joined together in 1991 to promote voluntary compliance with the ADA. The Arkansas ADA Roundtable is the regional affiliate for the Southwest Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center in Houston.
Linda K. Bledsoe, Ph. D., Research Manager,Kent School of Social Work. University of Louisville Louisville, KY. I am conducting the evaluation of the federal grant that funds the DVU at this point. Also, I am involved in program evaluation for the state on Kentucky on domestic violence. Another research interest is developing more understanding of domestic violence typologies, this being relevant to prediction of violence and also to more effective treatment and intervention with perpetrators. Linda K. Bledsoe, Ph. D. Research Manager Kent School of Social Work University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 Phone: 502-852-0421 Fax: 502-852-3935
Bexar County Sheriffs Office (Texas) in the Organized Crime/Gang Unit where my primary duties are gang intelligence and intervention.
I am a Registered Nurse who specializes in emergency medicine.
Jonathan Greene is an attorney with the AV-rated law firm of Howanski & Greene, LLC, based in Towson, Md. Mr.Greene practices in the areas of family law and immigration law. He is admitted to practice before the Maryland Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, and the Baltimore County Bar Association. In 1996-97, Mr. Greene served as a committee member of the Maryland Lt.Governors and Attorney Generals Family Violence Council and was Vice-Chairman of the Family Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association. During 1993-96, he served as a committee member and director of the Domestic Violence Task Force of Marylands Public Justice Center. In 1995, Mr. Greene coauthored Increasing Remedies for Domestic Violence for the Maryland Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. In 1996, he wrote the chapter on Sports and Entertainment Law for The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice: A Lawyers Handbook, published by the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence. In 1997-2000, he wrote the Coping Column for the American Bar Associations Student Lawyer and is currently a Contributing Editor. He also wrote several feature articles for the magazine from 1995-2000, including an interview with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Since 1996, Mr. Greene has also been a frequent contributor to Marylands two family law publications, the Maryland Domestic Law Report and the Maryland Family Law Monthly.
Project Director Violence Intervention Partnership Cumberland County, Maine
Assistant District Attorney Domestic Violence Unit Cumberland County DA's office
An Agenda for the Nation on Violence Against Women Center for Effective Public Policy Silver Spring, MD 20910
National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) -- Director, Editorial, Research & Policy/Editor in Chief
I have been a police officer with the Indianapolis Police Department since 1973. I am curremtly a Detective assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit. This unit became operational 4/18/00 and is located in The Julian Center 2011 N. Meridian Street Indianapolis Indiana. The Julian Center provides a safe shelter, education, and counseling for persons that have been abused. The concept is new to our city putting the shelter in view of the public on a major street in Indianapolis. The feeling is we don't hide the problem anymore.
Beth H. Taylor, RN, BSN, Program Manager of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program of Crisis Services of North Alabama. Mrs. Taylor currently is serving on the Alabama Sexual Assault Advisory Board, and on the Alabama Crime Victim's Compensation Committee, both of which are sponsored by the Alabama Coalition Against Rape. Mrs. Taylor is an Executive Board member of the Madison County Council against Domestic Violence, in which she is chairman of the Medical Committee. Mrs. Taylor is active in community organizations, including serving on the Southeast Symposium against Community Violence in Madison County.
I am a social worker and disability rights advocate living in northern California. I am interested in the issue of crime and violence against persons with disabilities, especially in the areas of sexual assault and domestic violence.
I am the developer/coordinator of the First Responder HEART Team (Helping End Abuse Respone Team)with Crisis Services of North Alabama, Huntsville, Al. I train advocates to ride with police and go in at the same time as the officer on domestic violence calls. We are having great success with this very pro-active program. My office is in with the domestic violence investigators.
I represent REACH of Haywood County which is nonprofit agency that provides services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in North Carolina.
I am City Attorney of Springdale, Arkansas and I am full time, with 2 full-time Deputy City Attorneys.
National Training Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2300 Pasadena Drive, Austin, Texas 78757
I'm an Assistant State's Attorney in Prince George's County, Maryland, specializing in domestic violence and child abuse cases. Prior to being in Maryland, I was an ASA in Miami (Dade County) Florida for a number of years. I also spent 1997 to 1999 working as a senior attorney for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. Spent the two years traveling around the country (and a few islands, including Guam) training multi-disciplinary teams in the investigation and prosecution of child physical and sexual abuse cases. I am still involved in training, through APRI, APSAC and locally as well.
Kim Swanson is the Triad Senior Services Officer for the Lee County Sheriff's Office. She is a certified Crime Prevention Practitioner and a Designated Victim Services Practitioner. She has a BS in Executive Management and is pursuing her Masters in Criminology. Her future plans are to teach college-age and adults on the university level. She teaches workshops for National Triad, is on the steering committee for the Florida Triad and is a member of several boards including the Phoenix Center (a rape crisis center) She has been married 21 years and has a teenage son. Her interests include dance, Tae Bo, reading, writing poetry, the issue of stalking and hopes to one day go to Paris!
Director of Public Policy for PA Coalition Against Rape. Co-chair Sexual Assault Issues, National Task Force to End Violence Against Women, member Lancaster and PA Bars. Member Children's Rights Committee of the PA Bar Association. Advocate on the state and federal level for issues pertaining to victims of sexual violence.
I am the chairperson of the Broward NOW Rape Awareness Committee, and on the Board of Dir. of the Fl. Council Against Sexual Violence.
I have been working in the area of domestic violence since 1993. I provide group/individual sessions for minority men who batter in the Seattle area. The program that I am with now has been in the process of being certified by the State of Washington. Most of the program's clients are non- or limited- English speaking individuals. The program has either bilingual/bicultural co-facilitators or interpreters to assist group members. So far, the program has served Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Korean, Chinese (Cantonese), Tagalog, Tigrinia, Amharic, Thai clients.
Current position with UNM CAREER Works is Crisis Referral Specialist. I have been with the project three years. CAREER Works is a welfare reform project housed under the University of New Mexico Division of Continuing Education and Community Services. We are funded by the New Mexico Human Services Department to transition welfare recipients from welfare in self-sustaining employment. Part of what we do is work with clients who self identify a barrier (ie: domestic violence, substance abuse, etc.) and assist them by referring to community agencies and resources to begin the process of overcoming the identified barrier. I do a great deal of work with domestic violence victims who come into our program and am interacting with HSD administrators in seeking to develop additional tools for Income Support personnel to more adequately identify clients with DV issues. We are finding that the earlier we can seek assistance for welfare clients who are experiencing domestic violence, the more quickly skills acquisition can be implemented for those same clients. If, however, isssues attached to DV aren't addressed, the longer and more complicated the process becomes in moving people off welfare. Prior to my work with UNM, I was (and am still) ivolved with the Greater Albuquerque Medical Association in the development of a gang tattoo removal project. Currently, we have access to three lasers (two in Albuquerque and one in Santa Fe) for the tattoo removal. It is an all volunteer project incorporating physicians, hospitals, law enforcement and other professionals seeking to assist current and ex-gang members who are wanting to re-enter the main stream of society. I feel it critical that those of us involved in working with individuals who express a desire to undo the shackles of victimization, poor decisions or any other destructive influence need to interact with one another. The sharing of experience and resources can only be helpful. If you desire additional information, please contact me. Thanks. Val
Mr. Levitan is a trainer and consultant on the issue of Same-Sex Domestic Violence. Mr.Levitan received his Master's degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at the University of Southern California. During his graduate work, Mr. Levitan began writing and researching the issue of Same-Sex domestic violence. Mr. Levitan also became involved with the Los Angeles' Gay and Lesbian Center's Domestic Violence program, with founder and program manager, Susan Holt. Mr.Levitan currently is a consultant for the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Unit and is on the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council. Mr. Levitan is also a member of the City of West Hollywood's Partner Abuse Education Task Force, and he has previously been honored by the City of West Hollywood for his work on their Domestic Violence Task Force. Mr. Levitan created the Gay and Lesbian Domestic Violence Task Force for the Domestic Violence Council, and he is committed to creating greater visibility for the issue of Same-Sex Domestic Violence throughout Los Angeles County and the world. Mr. Levitan also works with the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff's Department regarding Domestic Violence and Same-Sex Domestic Violence Issues.
Deputy District Attorney, Humboldt County District Attorney's Office.
I am the director of the Wyoming Division of Victim Services within the AG's Office. We provide program standards for victim service providers and administer both state and federal funds going to domestic violence and victim assistance programs.
San Francisco Rape Treatment Center,Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse Resource Center.Area(s) of expertise: Sexual assault nurse examiner, dealing with adult sexual assault, domestic violence, Forrensic interviewer, child sexual abuse
I received my J.D. in 1999 and currently work as the Training Coordinator at Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, a private non-profit agency providing services to victims/survivors of domestic violence in Dane County, WI. I primarily coordinate training opportunities for law enforcement, judges/court commissioners, victim advocates, child protective services, emergency health care professionals and prosecutors. From: "Jessica Gilkison"
American School of Professional Psychology. I am a clinical psychologist who works in the Northern Virginia area. I teach and also have a forensic private practice doing evaluations in domestic violence mostly for Latin American and Spanish speaking clients.
Detective. Indianapolis Police Department, Domestic Violence Unit
Investigator, Humboldt County District Attorney's Office (California). Our DV unit consists of two dv vertical prosecutors, one dv investigator, two victim advocates, and a program coordinator [who works on protocols and procedures, training issues, interagency coordination, dv case tracking, etc.].
I'm a Rape Crisis Volunteer for the Monroe County Rape Crisis Service (run out of Planned Parenthood of Rochester Syracuse Region). I've been there for almost 2 years and I'm getting ready to go back to school to study the effects of violence against women.
North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services, Bismarck, ND. I am the Student Violence Prevention Coordinator and Child Advocate.
Training and Standards Coordinator, NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence Concord, NH
Investigator, UC Davis Police Dept.
Sexual Assault Resource Coordinator,STOP Violence Against Women Grants -Technical Assistance Project - 1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Ste 500 Washington, DC 20009. 800-256-5883.dr@pcadv.org Debbie Rollo works for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) where she manages the sexual assault component of the STOP Violence Against Women Technical Assistance Project. She develops training materials,oversees an advisory panel and critiques national sexual assault interventions. Debbie came to Washington, D.C. from Tulsa,Oklahoma where she worked as an education coordinator with a rape recovery center. While in Tulsa, Debbie implemented the first sexual assault task force, trained medical, legal, and educational personnel on issues of victim sensitivity, and co-authored "If He Is Raped" (Learning Publications Inc. Holmes Beach,FL ). Debbie's passion to work with sexual assault issues stems from a strong desire to dispel rape myths that re-victimize survivors and impede the criminal justice system. Debbie earned a BS degree from the University of Tulsa where she also completed 30 hours at T.U. College of Law.
R.N. DNSc, CS, FAAN Adjunct Faculty, International Trauma Studies Program at NYU and the Coordinator of the Sexual Assault Examiner Course at Pace University School of Law Women's Justice Center. Expertise with children and families who have experienced or witnessed trauma.(Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, the Challenger explosion, the Gulf War, accidental death,violence and suicide in schools and communities).
I am a third year graduate student (Ph.D. program) in Clinical Psychology at George Washington University. I have been studying issues related to domestic violence for eight years - First with Sandra Graham-Bermann at the University of Michigan on a CDC study of the efficacy of a group therapy approach for battered women and their children, then studying the behavior of toddlers exposed to DV, then doing a program evaluation of a dating violence prevention program in 13 DC public schools, and now am the project director on an NIJ-funded study with Mary Ann Dutton (PI) and Lisa Goodman (Co-I) studying the longitudinal model of battered women's experience.
I'm the Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Division for the State of Alaska. Unlike most states in the lower 48, we do not have county District Attorneys. The AG is responsible for prosecuting all violations of state law and thus hires all district attorneys and assistants. I supervise all of them - about 90 spread out in 13 offices across the state.
Assistant Corporation Counsel, Domestic Violence Unit, D.C. Office of the Corporation Counsel
Director of Programs, Jewish Women International
Outreach Manager, Advocacy Supervisor, Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I am the Director of Outreach, Education and Volunteer Programs for a non-profit domestic violence and sexual assault agency called Independence House in Hyannis, Ma. Some of my job requirements are presenting workshops in schools on a variety of subjects having to do with violence in relationships, such as healthy/unhealthy relationships, what is abuse and the cycle of abuse, stereotypes and gender roles as portrayed by the media, sexual harrassment, teen dating violence, etc... I also do trainings on domestic violence and sexual assault with fire depts, EMT's and paramedics, police and other social service agencies and "helping" groups or organizations. Educating the public on these subjects is also part of my job, which I fulfill by doing speaking engagements at chuches, civic groups and other community forums. I also coordinate all of our agency's volunteers and provide training to all new staff and volunteers. I coordinate our hotline, safe home network and food pantry.
Director,Piedmont Psychiatric Professionals. Charlottesville, VA. 22911 -- Forensic Psychologist; Va. Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Va. Sex Offender Treatment Provider; NJ Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Psychotherapist 26 years individuals and couples. Specialist in relationships. Former professor social psychology and Women's Studies, Hunter College, CUNY Noted public speaker: communication, negotiations, gender issues, goal setting, "success", etc. Publications, television and radio appearances. Lectures include: Jewish Theological Seminary, UAHC, Mt. Sinai hospital, Montefiore and North Central Bronx Hospitals. Currently writing a book on rabbis' sexual abuse of women.
I am the Safe Home Coordinator for Women's Crisis Center in Newburyport, MA. I have worked in the field of domestic violence for 12 years as legal advocate, crisis counselor, support group facilitator, and outreach coordinator. For the previous 3 years I worked out of the Saugus Police Dept. Domestic Violence Unit with two detectives under a COPS grant.
Ron Stephens, recognized nationally as an authority on creating safe schools, has appeared as an expert on CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, and Donahue. He is a consultant and frequent speaker for school districts, law enforcement agencies, and professional organizations worldwide. Currently, Dr. Stephens serves as Executive Director of the National School Safety Center and Executive Editor of "School Safety," America's leading school crime prevention news journal.
Executive Director,Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Project coordinator for VAWA Collaborative of Cuyahoga Co.(Ohio)
I established a rape hotline and dv shelter for monolingual asian-pacific islanders in los angeles (the first of its kind in the u.s.). I continue to be interested in dv and other vaw issues in my present capacity as a consultant to non-profits.
I am a consultant and trainer working with child abuse prevention programs and battered women's programs. I have worked with victims of domestic violence for 15 years, including running a shelter and advocacy program, doing a needs assessment for the City of NY on the need for nonresidential programs for dv victims, and creating a curriculum to train teen service providers on how to work with teens who are being abused in their dating relationships.
I am employed by the City of Scottsdale Police Dept. and Coordinator of the city's Domestic Violence Action Team.
Executive Director, Sidran Foundation
2nd Year Law Student, University of Texas Law School.
Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County District Attorney's Office
I am a former Deputy District Attorney from the 15th Judicial Circuit of South Carolina (Horry and Georgetown counties). In my 17 years employed as a district attorney I prosecuted a number of murder, sexual assault, domestic violence, child sexual assault and various other crimes. I provided instructional training through the South Carolina Attorney General's office on successfully prosecuting cases involving domestic violence and sexual assault. I took an active part in developing the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General and the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Model Protocol for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges. In 1997 I received the South Carolina Victims Assistance Network Silver Scales of Justice Prosecutorial Award. I have served as a board member of Citizen's Against Spouse Abuse and Grand Strand Community Against Rape in Myrtle Beach, SC. Presently, I am in private practice representing victims of crime in civil litigation cases. It is my desire to concentrate on my areas of expertise which involve domestic violence and sexual assault cases. Successful civil suits have a significant deterrent effect. Lawsuits by victims hold defenders directly accountable and emphasize to perpertrators that crime does not pay. Actions against neglegent 3rd parties promote enhanced safety practices and encourage the exercise of greater caution, thereby reducing the occurence of crime. The civil justice system is a viable alternative that can empowert victims, especially those who have become disenchanted with or have experienced "revictimization" in the criminal justice process. "Revictimizarion" occurs when those working in the criminal justice system treat victims in an insensitive or uncaring manor resulting in a second emotional trauma that can be more harmful than the original crime.
Program Officer, Health & Safety,Ms. Foundation for Women,120 Wall St., 33rd Floor,NY, NY 10005 Ms. Eng has worked for more than 20 years to support women and children who experience domestic violence, sexual assault, and incest. She focuses primarily on enhancing the Ms. Foundation for Women's longstanding commitment to safety work and increasing the resources available to community-based organizations working to prevent the root causes of violence in our society. Prior to joining the Ms. Foundation, Eng founded the New York Asian Women's Center (NYAWC) in 1982, the first domestic violence organization on the East Coast to advocate locally and nationally for battered Asian women and their children. She also served as NYAWC's executive director and through an extensive volunteer network, created and implemented a 24-hour hotline available in six languages, a shelter program, legal advocacy services, and other support systems for women planning a violence-free future. In addition, Eng coordinated a rape crisis program for five years, working with sexual assault and incest survivors. For her many achievements in the field of safety, Eng has received national and statewide recognition, including the Eleanor Roosevelt Community Service Award (1990), the NOW-NYC's Susan B. Anthony Award (1990), the President's Volunteer Action Award (1991), and a Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award (1992). She holds a Master's of Social Work (MSW) from Hunter College of Social Work.
Executive Director of Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, a community-based human rights organization dedicated to ending violence against women, youth and children through support, advocacy, education and community organizing.
Police Officer - Patrol Division, Cranston, RI
Project Director, FSU School of Social Work's Institute for Family Violence Studies.Gerontologist, MSW, and PhD candidate from Florida State University specializing in domestic violence and elder abuse. In 1998 I left the FL. Dept. of Elder Affairs to work with FSU School of Social Work's Institute for Family Violence Studies as a Project Director. My 1999 project: I wrote 2 DV training manuals - one for Meals on Wheels volunteers and one for WIC staff. I have been using them to train staff / volunteers in rural counties to spot victims of abuse who might otherwise go unnoticed. I just received continuation fuinding to take these trainings nationwide. My 2000 Project: Writing a training manual specific to Animal Abuse Investigators in rural counties and trainig them to spot signs / victims of DV who might otherwise go unnoticed. Both projects are research oriented and include final project evaluations.
Heather began her career with the Department of Correction in 1985 as a typist at Southeastern Correctional Center. During that time and due to the consolidation of the Bridgewater Complex Heather held a variety of clerical and administrative positions including Executive Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Commissioner. The Bridgewater Correctional Complex is comprised of 5 separate and distinct facilities. These include the Bridgewater State Hospital, the Treatment Center for the those deemed sexually dangerous, Southeastern Correctional Center, Old Colony Correctional Center, and the Massachusetts Boot Camp (the first in the Commonwealth). In May of 1995, Heather was granted a leave of absence to assume a position within the Executive Office of Public Safety which provides oversight to all public safety agencies in the Commonwealth to include, but not limited to, the Massachusetts State Police, Parole Board, Department of Fire Services, and Governor's Highway Safety Bureau. In addition to her duties as Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Public Safety, Heather took on the responsibility of office manager in the summer of 1996. In January of 1998, Heather returned to the Department of Correction to fill the position of Domestic Violence Coordinator working with Department staff on domestic violence issues. This position was developed as a direct result of Governor Cellucci's issuance of Executive Order #398 - Zero Tolerance of Domestic Violence. The Department of Correction currently employs 5,600+ staff at 23 facilities located throughout the Commonwealth. Heather attends the University of Massachusetts pursuing a degree in Psychology/Criminal Justice.
Lobbyist for statewide sexual assault coalition - Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Attorney for the Texas Protection and Advocacy System.
I am an Assistant District Attorney General in Nashville. I have specialized in domestic violence prosecution. I also teach a Domestic Violence Law Seminar at Vanderbilt University Law School. I am actively involved in local domestic violence organizations and frequently speak to groups about domestic violence and prosecuting such cases.
My field of expertise is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Co-founder of The Ross County Network For Children. Grassroots advocacy since 1973. Focus since 1991 in child abuse prevention, intervention and prosecution. Focus on Family and Juvenile Court reform since 1993.
Sergeant, San Diego Police Department Currently working in DV and am on numerous subcommittees and committees of the San Diego DV Council.
I am a protective order attorney in the Travis County Attorney's Office in Austin, Texas.
1st Deputy Bureau Chief, Domestic Violence, Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Renaissance Plaza at 350 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Director,FamilyPeace.Expertise: Provision of domestic violence-related training and education services. Conduct interactive, effective, workshops of any length on topics related to family violence. Workshops focus on results; i.e. participants leave with new ideas and/or motivation for action and change. Target groups: workplaces (managers and staff), health care professionals, mental health professionals, law enforcement, and all others who are interested.
Since 1975, I have been involved in data base design and administration, including research and analysis, primarily in not-for-profit and government entities. My current position is with the Illinois Dept of Human Services, Office of Mental Health, Bureau of Quality Improvement. I am the database administrator/analyst for statewide clinical quality care performance indicators, including patient/staff safety and violence prevention initiatives. I also function as technical liaison, trainer, technical and user manual writer; and issues researcher. At Life Span, a not-for-profit domestic violence service provider in Des Plaines IL, I volunteer as data base administrator for their police family violence project and hospital advocacy project. I am a writer/editor of various publications, including brochures, newsletters, and their volunteer manual. I am also involved in several research projects and reports, including annotated bibliographies for medical and mental health issues vis-a-vis domestic violence. I have also prepared bibliographies for general workplace violence, domestic violence in the workplace; and domestic violence issues for lesbians, children, legal issues, and police-involved domestic violence. All projects are ongoing and updated periodically. Pending analyses include the police family violence and hospital advocacy projects. My reason for joining: I'm making the personal political as a feminist weaving my professional and personal lives... and I'm trying to take along with me as many as I can!
Victims Services Coordinator,Citizens Against Spouse Abuse,Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I provide crisis intervention and referral services to both resident and non-resident clients. I also facilitate our weekly support group.
Coordinator, Crime Victim Assistance Program, Troy, New York
Journalism graduate from San Francisco State University, (1970); Producer, Lucaswrites Educational Multi Media Inc. Producing educational safety videos reducing crime and sexual assault risk for people with developmental disabilities; training videos for people with developmental disabilities about crisis and other encounters with the law, emergency medical environments, courtroom, legal system; and for law enforcement about people with developmental disabilities. Focusing at this time on education regarding sexuality issues and strategies for personal safety for people with developmental disabilities.
I am a graduate assistant for the End the Silence Project, at the Institute on Disabilities/UAP, which supports people with disabilities who become victims of crimes. I am also currently working on my masters degree in criminal justice at Temple University.
Court Attorney, Domestic Violence,c/o Judge William Miller, Brooklyn Criminal Court
MPH. Injury and Violence Prevention Unit, Minnesota Center for Health Promotion, Minnesota Department of Health
Graduate student - Dept of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Research focuses on the criminal justice response to domestic violence, including obstacles to victim follow-through with criminal charges and the assessment of dangerousness in dv cases.
Policy Coordinator, Office of Interagency Affairs New York City Administration for Childrens' Services My email is 4697ww@acs.dfa.state.ny.us. Thank you. Samantha Moore Policy Coordinator Office of Interagency Affairs New York City Administration for Childrens' Services
Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of America. Former Executive Director, President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, DC
Pastoral Psychotherapist. Staff member of the Batterers Intervention Project at Catholic Charities, which is one of the five model batterers intervention programs in New York State. I do orientations, assessments, group facilitation, and community presentations re dv/family violence (and particularly my work/experience with batterers). I am also a trainer for both the agency (CC) as well as one in the community. I have also worked with the UB Family Violence Law Clinic, working with students who visit the program. In addtion, I supervise interns. My doctoral studies and dissertation dealt with domestic violence intervention, particularly with batterers with whom I work on a daily basis. I did a year internship at CC BIP and have been employed in the program for three years since that time. I have also offered trainings not only at CC but also at other agencies such as Parents Anonymous and at the Erie County Coalition against Family Violence. In addition, I supervise interns and other students who visit to observe our program. I have also worked with female victims of domestic violence as well as with gay batterers and victims.I have given a nunber of presentations related to dv, family violence, and batterers intervention. I have also been invited to teach a class related to batterers intervention, such as at Fredonia College and the University of New York at Buffalo.Because of my pastoral background, I also address spirituality/spiritual issues in relationship to domestic violence, family violence, victimization, etc.
President, Jewish Women International, Washington, DC
Project Coordinator, Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, State of Alaska. After 5 years of working with domestic violence and sexual assault victim/survivors in Minnesota, I moved to Alaska. My current position involves coordinating sexual assault advocacy and prevention education efforts around the state.
President & Owner, Safe at Home Training & Consulting: providing custom-designed training workshops on a variety of domestic violence related topics; consulting work with communities on developing and improving coordinated response to domestic violence and developing and implementing protocols. Served 11 plus years as a Magistrate Judge, Allen Superior Court, Fort Wayne,Indiana. Presided over a large volume criminal docket in Indiana's second largest city, Fort Wayne, hearing all misdemeanor domestic violence crimes, as well as preliminary hearings/bond hearings on felony crimes. Served three terms as a Commissioner and two years as Chair of the Fort Wayne Mayor's Commission on Domestic Violence, Rape and Sexual Harassment. Active in training and education of other judges, prosecutors, law enforcement and others throughout the state. Also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence since 1998, and President of the Board from 2002-2004. Appointed to the Indiana Team by Chief Justice Shepard for the 2000 Great Lakes Regional Meeting on Implementing Full Faith and Credit under VAWA. Awarded Indiana Judge of the Year in 1997 by the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV); Recognition Award for work on eliminating domestic violence, 1997 by YWCA Women's Shelter; Received the ICADV "Harlene Bartlett" award in October 2000 for service to the community, including those affected by family violence.
Since 1993, Connie Kirkland has beenthe director of Sexual Assault Services at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, the largest university in Virginia (population 25,000).At GMU,she provides university-wide education and training, as well as crisis intervention for vicims of campus sexual assault, stalking, and relationship violence. She is also a Women's Studies faculty member at GMU. She is a Certified Trauma Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Certified Law Enforcement Instructor. She has authored legislative bills, training manuals, and other materials related to crime victim issues, specializing in violence against women. She has been recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Jusstice for her work in the arena of sexual assault response and stalking policy development. Connie is also the Chair of the Northern Virginia Turn Off the Violence Coalition for the sixth year. She serves as a consultant, specializing in crisis management following workplace violence, campus security initiatives, and public policy development.
Executive Director,Forensic Nursing Services. I have been a forensic nurse since 1988, specializing in medical legal exams of adults and adolescents reporting sexual assault, and in cases of sexual homicide. Also, I provide education and consultation in these fields and multidisciplinary trainings for communities who wish to have a SART.
Coordinator of preceptorship program for sexual assault nurse examiners in NE Arkansas.
Honolulu Police Department. I am a detective with the Child Sex Crimes Detail and also a member of the Crisis Negotiation Team.
Sexual Violence Prevention Program Director, Virginia Department of Health, Center for Injury and Violence Prevention
National Center for Victims of Crime
Executive Director, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault,(CACALCASA) Oakland, CA
Washington, D.C. - National Association of Attorneys General -- Director and Chief Counsel --Violence Against Women Project -- Developed resource manual for Attorneys General on best practices & policies. Ran Violence Against Women Summit in March, 2000. Clearinghouse for VAW information for state AG offices.
Medico-legal Centre Sheffield.Job or position: Professor of Forensic Toxicology. Organization: Sheffield University. Background/Experience/Expertise: Medically qualified toxicologist, with law degree. Currently professor of forensic toxicology & deputy Coroner in South Yorkshire UK. Was an expert for the prosecution in the first successful rohypnol case in the UK. Have done a number of GHB cases. Most recent case R-v-Cobb - nurse who used midazolam to sedate patients & a collaegue prior to non consensual intercourse.
Jennifer A. Lierz, MSW, LCSW graduated from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri with her BA degree in Psychology. Jennifer did her undergraduate practicum at Safehome, a battered womens' shelter in Johnson County, Kansas. Jennifer graduated from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri with her Master of Social Work degree. Jennifer did her graduate practicums at Youth Emergency Service, a shelter for teenage runaways, and St. Louis University Hospital on the trauma unit. Jennifer's first two jobs involved working with pre-adolescents and adolescents and their families in dual diagnosis, residential treatment programs in Waynesville and Kingdom City, Missouri. Currently, Jennifer works at Heart of America Family Services. Jennifer provides individual, family, couples and group therapy to clients of all ages on an outpatient basis. She conducts a grief group and provides play therapy for children at a local elementary school. Additionally, Jennifer conducts a Male Batterers' Group and is a member of the Independence Coordinating Community Council to Prevent Domestic Violence in Independence, Missouri.
Violence Prevention Coordinator, Office of the State Medical Examiner,Iowa Dept. of Public Health, Des Moines, IA
I am an independent film maker and president of Discover Films, producer of award winning documentary educational videos since 1989 for grades 7-college. What I have learned producing these videos with prevention themes like tobacco and marijuana abuse, binge drinking, relationship violence, and acquaintance rape led me to explore family violence, its effects on children who witness it, and its fallout on society. As a producer I have connected with teenagers throughout the nation. I also am the single mother of twoLauren, 21 and Mark, 19. In producing these videos I have worked with a program for alternatives to violence in Colorado (Project PAVEDenver), tobacco prevention and peer counseling programs in California (TAPOrange County & San Diego City Schools Peer Counseling), an adolescent substance abuse program in Minnesota (Recovery PlusSt. Cloud), and a teen parenting program in Vermont (Parent-Child CenterMiddlebury). I have learned that many young people who abuse alcohol and drugs are medicating pain that comes from witnessing some measure of violence in their homes. My videos have featured sexual assault victims who told me they had previously been sexually abused as children, teenage boys who are trying not to imitate the behavior of their abusive fathers as well as teenage parents from violent homes who are now struggling to learn how to create a non-violent, nurturing home for their own children. www.discover-films.com
Amy is the Training Director for the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault (INCASA) and brings an expertise in training development and implementation as well as public speaking. Amy is responsible for 18 set trainings a year that include cross trainings for Judges and Prosecutors, Sexual Assault Protocol trainings, the INCASA annual conference and regional trainings for law enforcement and advocates. She is also responsible for developing and implementing special request trainings. Amy is also a well known speaker on domestic violence throughout the state of Indiana.
Judith is the Media Director for the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Judith is responsible for the development and implementation of media kits for sexual assault awareness as well as handling all the media and writing the INCASA newsletter.
INDIAN CHILD WELFARE DIRECTOR - Specialist Domestic Violence cases, Special training Child Sexual Abuse cases Violent crimes on Federal Indian Reservations. Tonkawa Tribe of Indians, Kanza Nation of Oklahoma PAWNEE AREA CHILD PROTECTION RESPONSE TEAM, staffing of Violent crimes Federal Indian reserves OKLAHOMA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION member, legislation of the Indian Child welfare Act and its application issues. VOCA Director Tonkawa Tribe of Indians, OK Obtained this program as the First on Reserve program in Oklahoma BIA, TRIBAL TONKAWA TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFICER - Domestic Violence cases. Tribal Law Enforcement contractor BIA and Tribal ICW New Mexico
Employed 4 years as the Victim Advocate Coordinator for the Nez Perce Tribe. Trained by Federal Law Enforcement Training Center as a Child Abuse Investigator. Tribal Employment Rights Office is a tribal organization established to protect Indians against employment discrimination. I am the compliance officer which demands strong negotiation skills.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, King County Prosecutor's Office (Seattle). Prosecutor for six years, assigned to the sexual assault unit for the past two years.
I have worked on the research staff of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, in the School of Social Work at the U of Minnesota for four years. I have just completed my MSW, and have also completed a certificate in child abuse prevention studies both at the University of Minnesota. Prevention and intervention regarding abuse and violence is a major area of professional interest.
I am an MSW from India and have worked on issues of violence, child sexual abuse,HIV/AIDS amongst prostitutes in varied community settings.I also have work experience with street children and court adjudicated youth. Area of expertise: marital and family therapy . Self help groups,family and child welfare.
Mental health clinician for ten years treating victims of violence. Program coordinator for several treatment programs serving victims. Currently I am the Rural Domestic Violence Analyst for the state of Virginia.
Countering Domestic Violence - Bloomington, Illinois. I have worked with our domestic violence program for over twelve years, and am currently the Program Director. Our program is extensive, with some unique resources such as kenneling resources for pets, medical advocacy program, a progression of group services, and self sufficiency/job retention program.
Resource Center Specialist Organization: MCADSV Advocacy intern/volunteer - Council Against Domestic Assault - Personal Protection Order Coordinator - Council Against Domestic Assault Resource Center Specialist - The Michigan Resource Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence is a joint project of the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board.
Jill Kruger Address: 6315 South 19th Street City: Tacoma, WA 98466 Job: Domestic Violence Coordinator Organization: TACID Currently working with all Pierce County Agencies that are in DV or Adult services and coordinating a Conference specifically for DV and other abuse for people with disabilities. Our agency works with all people with disabilities and we have been in existence for 20 years.
Executive Director of the Sports Leadership Institute Don McPherson is a native of West Hempstead, New York, where he was a two-sport high school All-American athlete (football, track). He attended Syracuse University, played quarterback and was a consensus All-America selection, winner of over 18 national player of the year honors, and was runner-up to Tim Brown of Notre Dame in the Heisman Trophy voting. During his seven-year NFL career, Don remained active in every community where he played. Specifically, during each off-season, he was Program Coordinator for the community based, non-profit organization, Athletes Helping Athletes (AHA), on Long Island, NY. He coordinated all training and presentations for the Student-Athlete Leadership Program and was coordinator of Nassau Countys Athletes Against Drunk Driving program. As Program Coordinator of the Student-Athlete Leadership Program, Don has trained thousands of high school student-athletes in motivational speaking and group work dynamics. By using sports as an educational tool, student athletes learn to teach, using their personal experiences as motivating examples for young people. Upon retiring from professional football in November of 1994, Don McPherson joined Northeastern Universitys Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He was named co-director of Athletes in Service to America. The goal of this program was to expand Sports in Societys programs nationally. Funded by an AmeriCorps grant, Athletes in Service was launched in fall of 1995 and continues to train former college student athletes to conduct community service programs in their community. In 1996, Don was named Director of Sport in Societys Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP). A gender violence prevention program, MVP is designed to encourage men to take a proactive position in the effort to stop mens violence against women. In particular, MVP was designed to address male student athletes and encourage their involvement in campus programs. From 1997 through 1999, Don served as national director of MVP and associate director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sport. In addition, in 1998 he returned to Long Island, rejoining AHA as associate director. In summer of 1999, Don resigned from MVP and the National Consortium for Academics and Sport. Since re-joining AHA, and under Dons guidance the organization has expanded its programming to include Civility in Sports(sportsmanship themes), school violence (bullying and teasing), and gender violence prevention issues. AHA is currently housed at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where Don also teaches Leadership Development and Sport and Civility. In spring of 1999, Don joined the board of directors of the Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence. He then created McPhersons Mentors for Jenna, a mentor program aimed at reducing violence, and promoting tolerance and civility Syracuse schools and communities. Don also serves on the board of directors of the Nassau County Sports Commission. In April of 2000, on behalf of the sports commission, he created the John Mackey Award, to be given to the nations most outstanding collegiate tight end. Don has been a member of numerous advisory panels and is often called upon for his expertise by several national organizations including: NCAA, Womens Sports Foundation, Family Violence Prevention Fund, U.S. Department of Justice, and U.S. Department of Education. Don is regularly quoted in print articles throughout the United States and has been featured on A & E: Investigative Reports, MSNBC, Fox News and Court TV and has contributed commentary on WNBCs Today in New York. He has appeared on the Phil Donahue Show and ABCs Nightline to discuss athletes and domestic violence and racism in professional football respectively. In 2001, Don was honored by both the Long Island chapter of the Syracuse University Alumni Association and the Walter Camp Football Foundation, as alumnus of the year. Also in 2001 Don joined the board of directors of the Syracuse University Alumni Board and serves on the executive committee.
Clinical Director/Psychotherapy Organization: Crisis Services of North Al Email: greenhawd@aol.com Background: Certified Trauma Specialist, Certified Diplomat and Counselor in Domestic Violence Counseling, Certified Diplomat in Psychotherapy, Certified Trauma Counselor for Children, Certified in American Sign Language, over 500 hours of advanced training in trauma studies.
Rape Helpline Coordinator, Sexual Assault Response Network, Ohio.
Queensland 4215 Australia. Founder and Director of the Sexual Assault Support Service,which is funded by the Dept of Health to provide professional counselling to survivors of sexual violence, training to other professionals and awareness & prevention education to the broader community. The service has developed programs & resources that have been used across the state and has received many awards, including one from the Australian Prime Minister for it's prevention work. I have also been instrumental in the development of a regional domestic violence service and women's shelter which is named after me. I have 22 years experience in working to end violence against women & children in both New Zealand & Australia. I was involved in the development of National Minimum Standards for Sexual Assault Services and am currently involved in developing state protocols. I initiated the Sexual Violence Awareness Month Campaign in our state and have just sat on the Attorney General's Taskforce on Women & the Criminal Code. I currently serve on the Board of the Australian National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence.
Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Office
As an information specialist at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault(CALCASA), I am always engaged in learning and sharing information about sexual assault. I am always referencing journals, periodicals, books, dissertations, and articles related to sexual assault in order to answer detailed questions from rape crisis center staff. CALCASA has been at the forefront of the movement to combat violence against women. It has sponsored media campaigns, hosted numerous conferences and trainings on self-defense, prevention education, and crisis intervention directed to support the development of rape crisis center staffs' expertise. CALCASA houses a specialty resource library with over 5000 materials related to sexual violence. As an information specialist, I also work with activists who have been in the movement against sexual violence from its inception. It is one of my duties to inform them about important new developments I see in my daily work. As an individual, I have been a feminist activist who developed support groups for women at the University of California at Berkeley, and who also participated in numerous organizations engaged in the fight against violence. Before working at CALCASA, I worked at the Gender and Equity Resource Center in the Women's Programs Department. I worked with the Sexual Harassment and Peer Education department at UC Berkeley. I also worked with several organizations, including UC Police Department when I participated in Hate Crimes Awareness Week.
Executive Director, Cambridge Women's Commission,I am co-creator of a long-term prevention and intervention program for the City of Cambridge, MA. I have been working on violence against women issues for 25 years.
Police Officer with the Jefferson County Police Department Previously assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit for 3 1/2 years (one of it's founding members), over 400 hours of training in domestic violence, KLEC Certified Instructor, currently teaching D.V. awareness. Attended Southern Police Institute, Conferences yearly by the National College of District Attorneys on D.V., trained investigator on Stalking Investigations through IPTM, currently writing a book on first responders to domestic violence related calls (how to investigate domestic violence calls for the first responding officer). Also member of the department's Explosive Disposal Unit (Bomb Squad), Peer Support/Critical Incident Team, and Recruitment Team.
I am a Domestic Violence Group Facilitator of a evening meeting, a Peer Counselor and an Emergency Response Advocate for Sexual Assault/Rape victims.Tracy, CA
HOTLINE COUNSELOR,NYSCADV, Albany, New York
Attorney Advisor, Battered Women's Justice Project
Johannesburg - South Africa. Researcher for a Non-governmental Organization called Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, focusing on policing issues. Communications head in the Department of Safety and Security focusing on educating and raising awareness on safety and security issues.
Clinical Counselor, GA Ntwk to End Sexual Assault. Primary focus with sexually assaulted children.
Victim Advocate,Genesis of the YWCA,Richmond, IN Advocate, Action Against Rape, Earlham College, Richmond, In
Director, Women's Rights Project, EarthRights International. I was a legal aid lawyer specializing in women's and children's issues (including DV) for 4 years. Now, I work primarily w/ women from Southeast Asia on women's human rights issues
President, Co-Chair, Philanthropy Foundation Inc. Alexander, Arkansas.
My program, the New York State Child Advocacy Resource & Consultation Center, works with multidisciplinary teams and child fatality review teams across New York State in an effort to improve responses to child abuse and child sexual abuse. As Coordinator, I provide research, resource development, website development, and training coordination, among other things, to this program. I also work as an advocate to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape in my community (New York City). You can view our own website at: www.nyscarcc.org.
Tuskegee, AL -- Anthropologist/Social Worker -- I have worked with abused children... I also have experience counseling teenagers (particularly girls) in many diverse areas, including abuse, neglect, abandonment, eating disorders, sexual acting-out and more.
Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit,Greater Boston Legal Services.
Story County SART Coordinator,Iowa State University. Coordinate the Story County Sexual Assault Response Team. Member of Iowa State Bar Association (J.D. 5/97) My goal is to develop violence prevention programming at Iowa State University. Member of the steering committee for Iowa Ending Violence Project -- a statewide initiative.
Antonia A. Vann has spent the past 15 years literally working with thousands of battered and abused women. A formerly battered wife, I am founder and CEO of the State of Wisconsin's only domestic violence agency specific to African American populations. Established in 1989, under the direction of an academic board of directors and national advisors, I served as the primary in the development of comprehensive and culturally relevant and specific programs for African American victims (women and children) and African American perpetrators. Services include women's programs (groups, individual and case management), education and continuation of support services for incarcerated female offenders who are also domestic violence survivors; children's programs, batterer treatment, batterer education within men's correctional facilities; HIV/AIDS outreach and education, Mental Health and substance abuse treatment, District Attorney's Office victim Advocates; W2 workforce development site clinical staff providing mental health, domestic violence and substance abuse treatment at a W2 site; Fatherhood and Responsibility program and currently developing batterer treatment services for females who are batterers. I am a member of the US Dept of Health and Human Services - National Steering Committee on Domestic Violence in the African American Community; a Commissioner Mayor's Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault; the States Clemency Project for incarcerated women who killed their abusers;and co-authored a culturally specific curriculum guide intended to teach teachers and other service providers how to work effectively with African American youth.
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Victims Advocate, Safe Place, Dumas, Texas Have been working with victims of sexual assult and children and women of domestic violence.
I am a victim advocate at a non-profit DV agency in SC.
Executive Director,the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault.c/o St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital CVTC 411 W. 114th St. Ste. 6D New York, NY.
Attorney.New York State PoliceProsecute police batterers for the NY State Police. Teach at National College of DA's.
Michelle Cowin-Gantz, former director of Culpeper County Victim's Assistance Program, Excutive Director of Warren County Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Social Worker/shelter supervisor Office on Women Domestic Violence Program, Rape Victim advocate SAVAS. Currently, senior at GMU, Counseling Special Populations. Experience developing curriulms for domestic violence prevention programs K-5. Work with incarcarated women, teen dating violence, work with local law enforcement as on-call "first responder", hospital response team, substance and domestic violence.
criminal investigator. volusia county sheriffs office, Florida. Six years of law enforcement, numerous training courses with a specialty in sex crimes and child abuse. Member of the Florida Sex Crimes Investigators Association.
Assistant Director, NYSCARCC, Brooklyn, New York. MSW,LSW. 7 years experience with juveniles. 8 years experience advocating for victims of domestic violence. Involvement with coordinating the first 12 crisis response teams in Morris county, NJ. Trained police officers re domestic violence. Presently consulting with Multi-Disciplinary Teams in NY state re child sexual assault, physical abuse and fatalities
Elizabeth Mueller, Ph.D. Address: 118 Foy Student Union City: Auburn University, AL 36849 Job: Director, Safe Harbor Women's Center Organization: Student Counseling Services Background: I am Director of the Women's Center at Auburn University and direct our sexual assault elimination project (funded by the Violence Against Women's Act). I am a therapist by education and training and work primarily with women with eating disorders who have a history of sexual assault/abuse. The mission of our sexual assault program is to eliminate sexual assault on Auburn University's campus and in the local community.
Abuja, Nigeria. Head, Legal Monitoring & Advocacy. Legal Practitioner, Gender Trainer, Counsellor, National Centre for Women Development.
Bellingham WA. Direct Service Team Coordinator Organization: womancare Background: 18 years working with the homeless 4 years on the Board of the WA State Coalition Against Domestic Violence - 4 years as a direct service advocate with battered women and their children - MICA certified
Office of the U.S. Atty. Baltimore, MD. Victim/Witness Specialist.
Athens, Al -- County DV Victims Coordinator -- Have been a victims adocate and court advocate for 5 years. Work alone in my county with back-up support from central office. Help victims at all levels of need with services to keep them safe. Work closely with police and sheriff at time of arrest and in court. Work with Dept of Human Resources on cases whenever needed. Refer to DHR and receive referrals. Also work with local DA's office on court cases and with city prosecuter on court cases. Receive referrals from attorneys for completion of PFA's and safety and sheltering needs.
Washington, DC Job: President Organization: The Empower Program Email: rwiseman@empowered.org Background: Rosalind Wiseman is a suvivor of teen dating violence and began a self defense program in 1992 "Woman's Way Self Defense". This experience gave rise to the Empower Program (TEP) which she developed the innovative award-winning curriculum Owning Up. TEP gives youth the skills and strategies to understand victimization, tacit acceptance, or perpetration of violence. TEP helps youth to understand the dynamics and make healthy, safe, and ethical choices. TEP's mission is to work with youth to end the culture of violence. TEP *teaches youth in the DC metropolitian area to prevent violence;*creates educational partnerships with schools and community-based organizations to build safe and healthy communities;*trains teachers and youth educators at schools, hospitals and other unique sites nationwide;*promotes youth leadership in these efforts through establishing and encouraging youth-driven initiatives. Just to name a select clients The Empower Program has worked with organizations such as: American Bar Association's Commission on DV; Avery House for Women&Children; Alternative for Parenting Teens;also with schools/unerversities; American University; Ballou Senior High; Bullis;Dunbar; Eleanor Roosevelt; Flint Hill; Howard University and many more. Also we have worked with corporations and government such as The Body Shop International; Booz Allen Hamilton; Children's National Medical Center; Family Crisis Center of PG County; Montgomery County Commission for Women; Men's Rape Prevention Project; Whitman Walker Clinic; Kaiser Permanente; National Democratic Institute these are just to name afew.
I am a Prevention Educator & Sexual Assault Program Coordinator for S.A.F.E., Inc. ( a domestic violence shelter) in North Georgia.
I am an attorney with a legal services office in Buffalo, NY, who works with domestic violence victims.
Wales, UK. Team Leader; psychiatric nurse. Organization: Partnerships in Care. 7 years experience as a qualified RN working with all manner of psychiatric situations within a medium-secure hospital. I am pending a move to a newly commissioned female unit.
Board chair & volunteer coordinator, Survivor Project (Portland, OR); Conference coordinator for "Transforming the Culture of the Domestic Violence Movement" in 2001 (http://www.survivorproject.org/conf/).
Glens Falls,NY 12801 Job: DV Hotline Volunteer Organization: DV Project of Catholic Charities Background: I have answered hotlines in upstate NY for over six years. I also facilitate group support meetings here on occasion. I work through the Domestic Violence Project of Catholic Charities for Warren and Washington Counties. I've lobbied for improved and new laws. I also work with DV victims online.
Lilburn, GA -- Counselor -- Organization: Family Recovery, Inc. I have been working in the domestic violence field for about four years and am currently completing my dissertation on the effects of witnessing parental violence.
Mattie Marshall is a survivor of domestic violence, a former business owner and volunteer advocate for victims of domestic violence. A member of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Communities Against Violence Network (CAVNET) and co-founder of the Shelby County Domestic Violence Taskforce. Mattie is certified by the Indiana Law-Enforcement Academy as a trainer for Officer and Victim Safety and Investigation. Other train-the-trainer programs include. "Violence in the Work Place" and "Recognizing a Violent Relationship". She has been a guest speaker for National Victims Rights Week held each year in Shelbyville. Mattie currently is working with Nonviolent Alternatives as a Batterer's Intervention Program Coordinator and facilitates groups for both men and women. Mattie is a licensed instructor for PRIME for Life Indiana DUI.
BastropTX -- Have been a Shelter Advocate for the last year, duties include but are not limited to: Client Intakes, Orientation, Safety Plans, Introduction to Communal Living. Responsible for House Inventory, Repair, Appointments.
Office Of the Attorney General Background: 1999- Present: Investigator/ Victim Advocate Program Specialist For the Children's Legal Services Division for the Florida Office of the Attorney General- Expert witness in child abuse investigations, child and family risk assesments, trainer for the Department of Children and Families, Broward Sheriff's Office as well as other organizations on the current laws, and the dependency process, investigate cases of child abuse and neglect for the purpose of adjudicating children dependent and termination of parental rights. Liason with other agenices, Interview, prepare and coordinate victims and witnesses 1986-1999 Child Protective Investigator Florida Department of Children and Families Investigate reports of abuse, neglect and the exploitation of children- including the social legal and medical aspects of an investigation. Assist families or victims with temporary emergency services. Coordinate special diagnostic evaluative and investigative teams to gather evidence. Determine the need for judicial action, preparing social summaries, reports, recommendations, and legal documents for the court and provide expert testimony in the state and federal court system.
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (Gender Studies: Violence Against Women), May 2006 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Master of Business Administration (International Finance), May 1998 American University, Washington, DC Bachelor of Science in Communications (Highest Honors), May 1996 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Case Manager, Manavi, Union, NJ 3/99-Present · Provide crisis intervention, culture-specific counseling, and advocacy to battered South Asian women at Manavi, a non-profit organization working to alleviate intimate violence against women in New Jersey/New York. · Coordinating logistical and planning aspects of National Domestic Violence Conference taking place in mid-August. · Network with other battered women's groups and conduct outreach to the South Asian community. · Speak on behalf of Manavi in public events and attend meetings as a Manavi representative. · Developed Career Services program and coordinate, write, and edit all corporate grants. Executive Director, Khizer Foundation International, Fairfield, NJ 9/98-3/99 · Developed synoptic strategic business plan including mission statement and objectives for KFI, a non-profit organization whose goal is to alleviate human rights violations. · Researched and compiled information on treatment of women in Islam. · Networked with other organization, and created brochures for fundraising purposes. · Authored articles and letters regarding human rights violations for publication. · Maintained KFI web-site and engaged in outreach activities. Strategic Planning Consultant, From the Ground Up, Washington, DC 9/97-5/98 · Consulted with FGU, a non-profit organization whose goal is to feed the poor in Washington, DC, on alternative food distribution methods and processes. · Part of multi-functional team developing strategic plan focusing on distribution policies. · Advised female headed households on nutritional and health issues. · Conducted food preparation and food nutrition workshops for single parents and expecting mothers. · Directed a team of four people by assigning tasks and identifying milestones. Public Communications Intern, U.S. Trade and Development, Washington, DC 5/97-8/97 · Attended Congressional Hearings and created internal updates on Floor decisions. · Wrote articles about TDA's telecommunications and technology projects and how it helped increase the number of jobs available in host countries as well as about the effects on the role of women and men in society. · Co-authored Project Appraisal Documents such as "India-Reproductive and Child Health Project." · Developed external publications such as the newsletter "TDAbrief" and press releases. · Liaison between TDA and the press. Legal Intern, Institute of Law & International Affairs, Dhaka, Bangladesh 5/96-8/96 · Conducted research on the legal status of women in Bangladesh. · Advocated for women interested in filing legal complaints and helped them prepare for court. · Co-authored reports such as "The Legal Status of Women in Tribal Areas." · Authored and presented "The Legal Status of Women in Bangladesh," International Services Department at American University: April 9, 1998. Family Planning & Research Intern, United Nations, Dhaka, Bangladesh 5/95-8/95 · Performed research on the usage patterns of family planning for poor suburban Bangladeshi women who were battered. · Counseled and recommended appropriate forms of family planning methods to clients. · Created and implemented three radio commercials to increase awareness among these women. · Conducted seminars on hygiene and healthy food preparation. · Authored and presented "Family Planning In Bangladesh," Educational Policy Department at University of Illinois: December 5, 1995. AWARDS: Phi Eta Sigma Scholar - Awarded May 1994 Illinois State Scholar - Awarded August 1994 Golden Key National Scholar - Awarded May 1995 CERTIFICATIONS: Domestic Violence Specialist (DVS) - Pending PUBLICATIONS: "Due Process of Law," Dawn: December 6, 1998. "F-16" MediaForum: December 16, 1998. "The Need of Implementing a Metropolitan Police System," Pakistan Link: December 4, 1998. ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATIONS: Top Secret U.S. Government Clearance; Editor and Layout Director of Srishti, Student of Indianica Dance Academy; Member of American Business Women's Association; Member of Committee to Protect Journalists; Member of CIVICUS; Member of South Asian Women's Network
Director, UC Davis -- Organization: Campus Violence Prevention Background: Director of the Campus Violence Prevention Program at the University of California, Davis. Member of the State Advisory Committee for Sexual Assault Victim Services and Prevention Programs for the Office of Criminal Justice Planning. Represents the Northern Region of California on the Board of Directors for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Member of the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, California Sexual Assault Investigators Association and the American Society for Training and Development. Have worked with victims/survivors of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault in a variety of capacities for the past 15 years. Her background includes coordinating 24 hour emergency services for an urban Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center, training and supervising advocates for the SART, developing peer education on a Univeristy campus, consulting on curriculm developement, and extensive experience in training collabortively w/ law enforcement agencies. Primary areas of expertise include: Adolescent Rape, Rape Trauma Syndrome, collaboration between victim advocates and the criminal justice system, vicarious trauma experienced by helpers and Rape Prevention/ Risk Reduction Programming for high school and college students.
Des Moines, IA Job: Physician (OBG) Organization: Planned Parenthood Greater Iowa Background: have been OBG for 22 years, in priv practice 15 and international medicine (mission work) Am working with Polk county and 5th Judicial district to develop SART for central Iowa area. Other interest is PTSD in SA survivors. will be in states until jan, then back to Cameroon for several months
Cheyenne, WY Job: Director/court watch project Organization: Family Seasons Center, Inc. Background: I am currently the Director for a new social service agency. I am also a full-time graduate student in the Social Work program at the University of Wyoming.
Lakeport, Ca. Job: Shelter Manager/Freedom House Organization: Sutter Lakeside Community Serv Background: I have been involved in the fight against Domestic Violence for the past two and a half years.I am a Shelter Manager of a Battered Womens Shelter here in Lake County. We are in a rural community and have faced lots of challenges.Would like lots of input from others out there who have faced similar challenges.
Minneapolis, MN Job: Employee Asssistance Counselor/Family Mediator/Parenting Consultant Organization: dor & associates, inc. Background: Juvenile corrections, domestic abuse probation officer, supervised visitation specialist, custody and visitation evaluator/mediator.
Panama City, FL 32405 Job: Criminal Justice Academy Tnr Organization: Gulf Coast Community College Just completed FLETC Dom Viol Train-the-Trainer course for instructor certification. Involved in DV due to student population, working as Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff and first-hand experience as unit commander of batterers and victims during 32 years military service.
Executive Director, Center for the Prevention of School Violence. Dr. Riley has been the executive director of the Center for the Prevention of School Violence since its establishment in late 1993. She was drawn to her current position because of her desire to ensure that schools are able to fulfill their educational missions. Her previous work in schools exposed her to the fact that schools today are in need of assistance to ensure that they are places which are free of crime and conducive to learning. Prior to her directorship of the Center, Dr. Riley was a principal and was responsible for implementing creative curriculum and management strategies. Dr. Riley also worked in North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction (DPI) as an education consultant and instructional specialist with expertise in citizenship education. She also taught history and social studies at the middle and high school levels. Dr. Riley is a state-level Coordinator of Youth for Justice, a national law-related education project. She serves on the advisory board of the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence, the National School Safety Center Editorial Advisory Board, the editorial board of Inside School Safety, the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Governor's Crime Commission, and the NC Association of School Resource Officers. The Center which Dr. Riley directs exists as a primary point of contact for information, programs, and research about the problem of school violence and efforts directed at preventing it from occurring. The Center provides a bridge for cooperation between various agencies involved in school violence prevention. In her capacity as the Center's director, Dr. Riley is viewed as a national expert on school violence prevention and has been interviewed by numerous local, state, and national media. She holds an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 1-800-299-6054 http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv/
Atlanta, GA -- Executive Director, The Partnership Against Domestic Violence.
Rome, GA -- Executive Director -- Sexual Assault Center of NW GA -- I am the executive director of a sexual assault center serving a rural, four-county region in Georgia. Prior to this, I was director of development for a child advocacy center covering roughly the same area. I have worked as a lobbyist to the Georgia state legislature. I am responsible for community outreach within our service area, in addition to providing protocol training for professionals in involved agencies or organizations. I am also charged with resource development, so, subsequently, I have a near constant need for current statistics on local and national levels.
I have been working in behavioral sciences, counseling and social work since 1980 and in the rape crisis field since 1989. I was the first Director of a countywide rape Crisis Program in Oxford, Ohio and past President of the Ohio Coalition On Sexual Assault. Currently I am a private practice psyhcotherapist specializing in sexual trauma treatment, a national consultant on issues related to violence against women and co-coordinator of a non-profit group called Victims Rights Advocacy. In addition, I have completed an international study on victims' perspectives on sexual trauma in the U.S. Military which will be published by Haworth Press in 2001. My degree is an MSSW from the University of Texas at Austin and my licensure is an Independent Social Worker in Ohio.
Atlanta, GA -- Commission Assistant, Georgia Commission on Family Violence
Albany, Georgia -- Chief Parole Officer -- Georgia Parole Board Background: Specialist in Sex Offender Supervision. Member of the Dougherty County Domestic Violence Task Force. Member Albany Dougherty Leadership Council, member Community Oriented Policing. My parole office supervises violent offenders and works closely with law enforcment in solving violent crimes.
Sacramento, CA -- Court Watch Coordinator -- WEAVE -- I am a California MFT. For five years I worked as as a contract group facilitator in a BIP at WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment), a Sacramento, CA feminist oriented domestic violence agency. That BIP recently closed, and they have hired me to establish a court watch program in our community around the issue of abuser accountability, as well as to generally represent them in the community regarding abuser matters.
Hampton, NH -- Legal Advocate,Coordinator, Rapid Response -- Organization: Women's Crisis Center -- R.N., Comprehensive dv&sa victims services for eight years. Present dv trainings to law enforcement & medical staff, dv in the workplace, etc.Certified batterer's intervention counselor.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL Job: Senior Ed, Behavioral Health -- Organization: JCAHO -- Background: I edit and publish all behavioral health publications for the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. I am putting together a monograph on abuse and neglect.
Univ. of Toledo City: Toledo, OH Job: Coordinator Organization: Sexual Assault Ed./Prev. Background: I have worked for more than 10 years in the field of violence against women, on both domestic violence and sexual assault. Currently, I coordinate a university sexual assault education and prevention program that also provides advocacy services to survivors.
Rome, GA -- Job: Outreach Coordinator Organization: Hospitality House for Women Background: 5 yrs experience working with families experiencing abuse, domestic violence and child abuse.
New York. National Correspondent for CNN Radio. I have a specific interest in stories about violence against women. I have a background in criminal justice issues. Stories that I file are broadcast nationally and internationally, through approximately 2000 radio affiliates. I have been participating in CAVNET forums for some time.
Sacramento, CA -- Training & Technical Assistance Specialist-- California Coalition Against Sexual Assault--
Auburn University, Auburn, AL -- Student Counselor Prevention Coordinator, S.A.fE. (Sexual Assualt Elimination) Harbor. I work as a student counselor at Auburn University under a grant funded project through the Women's Violence Act. Our program consists of prevention programming coordinated through peer educators (student volunteers); a free self-defense class for women (RAD- Rape Aggression Defense) that our campus police assist us in providing; and I am responsible for providing counseling to victims of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and/or childhood sexual abuse.
Reedsport, OR -- Family Advocate -- Women's Crisis Service -- Background: 12 years working with at-risk families, victims of domestic violence; advocacy, crisis response, counseling, work w/law enforcement & courts, interagency collaboration, community education, public speaking, teaching parenting classes,
Toledo, OH -- Family & Child Abuse Prevention Center -- I coordinate the Lucas County Domestic Violence Task Force in Toledo, OH.
Eagan, MN -- Community Action Council -- I work as the director of violence prevention and intervention services for a non-profit agency in Minnesota. Much of my work is focused on the issues of domestic violence, and two of the programs I oversee are shelters for battered women and their children.
Madison, WI -- Executive Director, Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life, Wisconsin Batterers Treatment Provider Association.
Executive Director The Arc of the United States 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 650 Silver Spring, MD 20910
I am a Bridge/Domestic Violence Advocate at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS.
Portland, OR -- Oregon Law Center -- I work at a private non-profit legal services organization in Oregon that receives no federal funding. I have represented low income clients and domestic violence service providers as a lobbyist in the Oregon legislature since 1991.
Attorney and Consultant, New York, NY 1976-present. Author. Individual practice limited to matters concerning children and youth:abuse/neglect, delinquency, custody/visitation, related tort litigation. Formerly specializing in juvenile defense, parole, pre-sentence.
I am the Children's Progam Coordinator at Fillmore Family Resources in Preston, Maine.
Assistant Director,Organization: Criminal Justice Institute. In my current position I have implemented three grant projects concerning violence against women for law enforcement. Two of these were specific for Arkansas (domestic violence) the other was nationwide (sexual assault). Our organization serves Arkansas law enforcement as well as rural law enforcement nationwide (National Center for Rural Law Enforcement). Domestic Violence and other forms of violence have been identified by the law enforcement as one of their primary concerns. Access to your website will enable me to stay current with information, issues, and experts so that I may better serve our law enforcement constituency. In January 2001 we will be implememting an educational program on orders of protection for Arkansas law enforcement officers. Access to this site will be a valuable resource.
Advocate Director, Outreach Organization: Stop Abusive Family Environ. Background: I have been a victim advocate for 4 years here in WV and before that I was an advocate for Military Spouses (mainly Navy).
Organization: Womencare Shelter Background: Direct Service Work With Women and Children who have been victimized by domectic Violence. Hotline experience. Community Outreach. Working with children who need extra help with reading and English (through AmeriCorps). Human Services education. Providing training to volunteers at Womencare.
Background: Worked for two years as an educator in sexual assault prevention, also was a crisis counselor and emergency responder for two years. Now am working on a master's thesis on Latina perception of sexual assault and interning with the CO State Dept of Public Health, working on a state-wide campaign against sexual assault.
Assistant Director of CHANA, a domestic violence organization serving the Jewish community of Baltimore.
5 years as a uniformed police officer, 2 years as a field training officer, domestic violence instructor, Rape Aggression Defense instructor, certified as a crime prevention and C.P.T.E.D. practitioner, have assisted in providing programs to the IU and Bloomington communities on safety, drug& alcohol abuse prevention, self defense for women, and crime prevention.
18 yrs with Men Evolving Nonviolently, a community based non-profit Batters Intervention Project as a volunteer group facilitator, hotline counselor, and paid consultant. Program manager in Adult Services county Mental Health department.
I have been an attorney for 22 years in domestic relations. I learned to litigate representing poor battered women. I have now left the private practice and taken a position as a program officer in my local county r.p.u. Among my duties is staffing our VAWA STOP subgrant on a county-wide level. We are beginning to look toward comprehensive community planning.
I have been with the City of Phoenix Prosecutor's Office for 5 1/2 years. I am the chair of the Office's DV committee and a co-chair of the city-wide DV Task Force. I also supervise 3 attorneys, 3 advocates and 2 legal assistants in our Domestic Violence Unit. Currently, I am assigned to the Training Unit which is responsible for training all new attorneys in the criminal division in office policies, procedures, trial technique, etc. We have several excellent (I believe) programs in our office and in the city that I would like to share, but I would like to be able to learn of successful strategies in other areas.
Work for Praxis Int'l, a nat'l training program to assist rural grantees with t.a. re. d.v. Responsible for website as well as development/information for manuals/materials for program.
Penelope House Family Violence Center provides services to victims of domestic violence and their children in Mobile, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, and Washington Counties in Southwestern Alabama. Services provide include shelter, 24-hour crisis hotline, counseling, court advocacy, vocational counseling, case management, outreach, support groups, perpertrator treatment program, prevention education to students in grades K-12
I have been with The South Suburban Family Shelter for two years. I am currently working with the Chicago Heights Police Department Domestic Violence Unit as a Court Advocate. I am also state certified to do police trainings in Illinois.
Volunteer advocate, Hale Ola Ka'u
Resource Coordinator for Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project STOP Violence Against Indian Women
Washington, DC -- Director of Public Policy -- Family Violence Prevention Fund
I am the current director of a statewide sexual assault coalition that serves 40 rape crisis centers across Washington State. WCSAP is also the coordinating coalition for the Sexual Assualt coalition Resource Sharing Project which provides peer based resource sharing to every seuxal assault coalition in the united States. I am an advocate for women and surivors of seuxal violence.
Organization: Greater Boston Legal Services Background: atty with 15 years experience. Currently represent low-income victims of domestic violence in custody and visitation disputes; provide outreach and education on dv to community groups and judiciary; advocate with legislature on issues important to victims of DV
Currently an advocate for victims of sexual assault and Rape Prevention and Education Specialist in Jackson County, Alabama.
I am currently the manager of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (IL) Family Violence Prevention (coordinating) Council. Previous to this employment, I managed our local legal aid office for 11 years, focusing much of my time on family violence cases.
I've recently become the Director of the Women's Center at the University of Vermont. The WC has never offered advocacy or direct services around violence against women; however, we just received one of the Criminal Justice grants ($294,000) to estabilish a campus-based response to violence. As part of the grant we will have a Victim Advocate located in the Center who will do advocacy, outreach and education on sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. Previous to coming to UVM I was the Sexual Assault Coordinator at Virginia Tech where I did education, advocacy, crisis intervention, and outreach. I've engage in activism around violence against women for 12 years. I am also currently writing a chapter on violence against women for a new women's studies textbook. I was drawn to your site by a reference to it (on a women's studies listserve) as a source for informaition on domestic violence in native-american cultures.
I am the Workplace Domestic Violence Trainer for the YWCA. I have expertise in domestic violence, how it affects the workplace, employer liablity, DV laws and programs, and training curriculum.
Dr. Darald Hanusa is in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, a Certified Group Psychotherapist and is certified in the State of Wisconsin as an Independent Clinical Social Worker. Dr. Hanusa is a Senior Preceptor and Lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the 1997 recipient of the Luan Gilbert Award for outstanding contributions in domestic violence intervention and prevention awarded by the Dane County Commission on Sensitive Crimes, Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response Task Force. He currently chairs the Wisconsin Batterers Treatment Providers Association and the Dane County domestic violence task force. Clinically, Dr. Hanusa has specialized in the area of domestic violence with both perpetrators and the survivors of violence since 1980. Currently, he offers assessment and treatment services for abusive men through the "ATAM" Program (Alternatives and Treatment for Abusive Men) and counseling for survivors through the Midwest Domestic Violence Resource Center at the Midwest Center for Human Services both of which he founded in 1989. Dr. Hanusa has provided several hundred presentations, lectures, appearances and workshops. He provides consultation, expert witness testimony and training to private and public agencies and professionals working with domestic violence issues and has conducted training workshops nationally and internationally, most recently for the Department of Defense, Naval and Marine Corps Family Advocacy Programs. Dr. Hanusa is an author and a well-known lecturer, and clinician and has been a frequent contributor to newspaper articles and commentary and a frequent T.V. and radio show guest.
Victim/Witness Specialist, Office of the U.S. Atty. MD
I have received extensive training in the field of domestic violence. I am currently assigned to a specialized enforcement unit in the police department which responds to domestic violence and child victimization. I am a Utah POST certified instructor and certified FLETC trainer in domestic violence. I presented at the 1999 and 2000 Utah Prosecution Council Conferences on Domestic Violence.
I hold a PHD in clinical psychology and am the Family Advocacy Program Manager for the US Army, 10th Area Support Group, Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan. One of my primary job duties is to increase awareness of and educate troops and family members on the topic of family violence.
Ft Lauderdale, FL - Asst. Prof. of Law, Nova Southeastern University -- I have taught sexual orientation and the law for the past 6 years at my former institution and am interested in developing scholarship in the area of same sex domestic/intimate violence as well as other sexual orientation issues. I am currently writing an article on the inclusion of same sex domestic/intimate violence in courses on sexual orientation and family law.
Detective, Keene (NH) Police Sex crimes investigations Internet Crime investigations
Director of Education, Gwinnett Sexual Assault Center
Executive Director, North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCAV)is a membership organization serving domestic violence service providers, allied professionals, and individuals working to end domestic violence. Visit our website at www.nccadv.org
Deputy District Attorney, Ventura District Attorney's Office
I coordinate a domestic violence intervention project at a hospital in our county, training and working with health care providers to address and respond to the impact of violence on their patients. I also chair the children and family violence committee of our DV Council, a group which looks at and makes recommendations for addressing the overlaps between child abuse, dv and juvenile delinquency. I have been an advocate and worker in this movement since 1990.
Director of a Domestic Violence Service (DVS) in Queensland Australia. DVS has provided community leadership in the development of a Integrated Response to domestic violence. Our service provides counselling,groups, court assistance and advocacy to women and children,court mandated education groups for abusers and an extensive education program for police and other professionals including the business community. I have participated on numerous committees and boards and I am strongly committed to ending gender based violence.
Communications Director, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Director, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
President/Violence Prevention, Sudbury Women's Centre
Harlem, Georgia - Probation Officer, DVS
Sgt., Family Service Division, Portland Police Bureau I have been a police officer for 15 years. Prior to that I was a domestic violence advocate at a shelter in Olympia, WA. I am currently an investigator of domestic violence.
Elder Abuse Program Developer, Family Crisis Services (Portland, Maine)
I am the Outreach Coordinator/Volunteer Director for the Domestic Violence Association of North Central Kansas. I do outreach in 10 counties, working closely with judges, law enforcement, schools,etc.
Oklahoma system of protection and advocacy for people with disabilities
I am a feminist filmmaker who has focused on violence against women for the past 25 years. My films on domestic violence, women's rights as human rights, and rape have won numerous awards including an Academy Award in documentary. I am also one of the many authors of the violence against women chapters in the many editions of _Our Bodies, Ourselves_.
Author, "Not To People Like Us".
Network for Women's Services -- Managing Attorney, Pro Se Divorce Workshop, 70 W. 36th Street, Suite 903, New York, NY 10018
Professor of Social Policy, Director, The Center for Social Change, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110. The Center for Social Change was established in 1984, the 25th anniversary of the Heller School, in order to put issues of social and economic justice and human solidarity on the School's agenda. The work of the Center is based on the recognition that human ills and social problems are rooted in societal structures and dynamics, and in values and ideologies that tend to justify and maintain prevailing social orders and ways of life. Accordingly, the Center aims to contribute through its work toward transforming social, economic and political institutions which involve domination and exploitation, injustice and discrimination, conflict in human relations, and ecological destruction into alternative institutions conducive to healthy human development for all from local to global levels. Such alternative institutions would be shaped by values of social equality and human solidarity, individual liberty and responsibility, real democracy in every domain of life, and harmony in human relations and in relations to nature. The Center's studies and projects focus on social polices conducive to human development, social-change-oriented modes of practice in human services, and non-violent social change strategies. Priority areas for Center studies are the redefinition, reorganization, and redesign of work since prevailing modes of work and terms of exchange and distribution of work products inhibit human development, and cause severe social problems. Other foci of Center studies are the sources, dynamics and prevention of violence, assessment of progress toward compliance with human rights standards as defined by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and community organization, empowerment, and social change projects in Israel. The Center offers graduate courses, tutorials, Ph.D. dissertation guidance and seminars, and colloquia at the School. It consults with individuals and organizations in the community, participates in social-change-oriented activities, sponsors visiting scholars in residence at the School, maintains a publications program, and organizes conferences.
Women's Justice Center Centro de Justicia Para Mujeres Bilingual (Spanish) Website: www.justicewomen.com 250 Sebastopol Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Co-Director, Women's Rights Network - I have worked on a variety of issues affecting women, girls and families for the past 15 years. I received my B.A. in anthropology from Amherst College in 1990 and my J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1995. In college, I was active in a peer counseling, education and advocacy group on issues of sexual harassment and rape, and volunteered at a homeless shelter for women with pre-school age children. After college, I studied and worked in Taiwan, and later canvassed for Citizen Action in Seattle, Washington, for passage of state family leave and affordable child care legislation. As a law student, I was active in the Battered Women's Advocacy Project, the Teen Violence Education Project, and the Children & Family Rights Project, and also served as an Editor for the Women's Law Journal. My clinical experience includes the Juvenile Rights Project, the Cambridge Dispute Settlement Center, Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center Family Law Unit, and the ACLU Foundation of Maryland. In 1995, I received the Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship and the Irving R. Kaufman Public Service Fellowship to co-found the Women's Rights Network with Kim Slote (HLS '95). From 1995-1998, WRN was housed in donated office space at the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, where I also served as Co-Administrator for the firm's Abuse Prevention Program. In 1999, WRN relocated to the Wellesley Centers for Women, where I continue to co-direct WRN. In addition, am an active member of the Wellesley Centers for Women's Working Papers Committee and the organizing committee for the "Gendered Violence Across the Life Span" Seminar. Briefly, WRN is an international human rights organization that seeks to address the root causes of intimate partner abuse in U.S. communities through the application of human rights principles, strategies and laws. At the same time, WRN works to build and sustain an international network of women and men who are working to end intimate partner abuse and related issues. Our aim is to help establish a broad-based and diverse U.S. women's human rights movement that is geared towards effecting lasting social change in this country and that also has strong ties to the global women's movement. Our working premise is that a human rights approach and an international, cross-cultural orientation are essential for ending systemic violence and discrimination against women in the United States and throughout the world. To achieve WRN's mission, we use a strategic combination of human rights trainings, human rights fact-finding, community organizing, public education, international information exchange, and referrals and support for battered women and their advocates. The current focus of WRN's work is the Battered Mothers' Testimony Project: A Human Rights Report on Child Custody & Domestic Violence in Massachusetts.
Director, Women's Human Rights Program, Amnesty International, New York
Kimberly K. Eby is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies and a Faculty Affiliate of both Psychology and Women's Studies. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University. Her specialization is community psychology, a field whose aims are to develop theory, conduct research, and engage in social action to promote well-being and prevent the development of problems of communities, groups, and individuals. Community psychology expands more traditional, individualistic approaches and applies an ecological perspective to social and community problems. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Integrative Studies and Faculty Affiliate of Psychology and Women's Studies. Her primary research interests include issues related to violence and gender, especially dating and domestic violence, the impact of violence on health and well-being, and interdisciplinary teaching and collaboration.
Chief Penny Harrington, National Center for Women & Policing (a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation).
Dr. Kimberly A. Lonsway received her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Upon graduation, she served for two years as a postgraduate fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Dr. Lonsway currently serves as Research Director for the National Center for Women & Policing, a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation. She also teaches as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Department of California Polytechnic State University. Dr. Lonsway's research focuses on the issues of sexual victimization, specifically on the topics of rape myth acceptance, rape prevention education, and police training in sexual assault investigation. Her most recent effort was the development of a national training program for law enforcement in the area of sexual assault investigation. The program includes content chapters and classroom-ready curricula, and it focuses on the investigation of sexual assaults committed by known perpetrators. This curriculum can be downloaded from the website for the National Center for Women & Policing (www.feminist.org).
Castro Valley, CA - Executive Director of DWAV - Deaf Women Against Violence. Deaf Women Against Violence is a new nonprofit agency for Deaf victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in San Francisco Bay Area.
Sharon D'Eusanio is the Deputy Director for the Division of Victim Services and Criminal Justice Programs for the Office of the Florida Attorney General, Bob Butterworth. In May of 1980, she was the victim of a violent crime which took her eyesight and nearly her life. In April of 1981 she began speaking out on behalf of victims of crime, telling of her own experiences and offering a message of hope, self-motivation, perseverance and determination. Her presentations include topics of a global perspective of violence and its impact on our families, children and society . In our new era of victim services, she presents on emerging issues including the underidentified population of crime victims with disabilities, the importance of developing comprehensive and collaborative efforts among various disciplines to strategically address the problem of the continuum of victimization. Ms. D'Eusanio is an author and nationally recognized speaker, who has appeared on radio and television including ABC's 20/20, Larry King and Discovery Channel's "Justice Files". Sharon has been featured in local and national newspapers and magazines as well as publications in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Greenland, Denmark, Germany, Africa and South Africa . Since 1981 she has presented countless keynote addresses for national and state conferences and has provided numerous workshops and breakout sessions on a variety of subjects. She serves on the Board of Directors for Crime Stoppers of Broward County, Inc., The Board of Directors for the Coalition for Independent Living Options, Inc. and the Advisory Board of Youth Crime Watch of Miami/Dade. For her victim activism Sharon has received many local, state and national awards, which include the 1985 National Victim Service Award presented by President Ronald Reagan "For Outstanding Service on Behalf of Victims of Crime", and the 1998 Edith Surgan Award from the National Organization for Victim Assistance "For Outstanding Leadership by a Victim Activist".
Patricia A. Bloom, Ph.D. University of Miami School of Medicine Director, Center on Aging & Disabilities 1400 N.W. 10th Ave. (D-305) Dominion Tower, Suite 601 Miami, Florida 33136
My dissertation is based on the experience of American Indian women's experiences of d.v.
Former staff attoreny for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, PA, where in addition to representing battered women and children in protection order cases, I conducted trainings about domestic violence for volunteer attorneys, staff and high school students. While in law school I participated in the Families and the Law Clinic for three semesters where I co-led the high school dv curriculum project and co-facilitated the mutual support group in our clinic. In the summer of 1995, I clerked for the Battered Women's Justice Project of the Pennsylania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, where I dedicated most of the summer to researching confidentiality and gun control issues. I am currently working on a consulting project for the BWJP regarding dv and mediation.
Ph.D. in Nursing and a Ph.D. in Psychology. Board Certified Diplomate in Hynosis, Clinical Psychology and Medical Psychology. Certified, Diplomate Law Enforcement Expert. Board Certified, Diplomate Forensic Examiner. Public Health Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatry.
Pam is an attorney and social worker, and is responsible for co-founding CAVNET, as well as for the development and maintenance of CAVNETs database.
Dianne Hubbard is based in Windhoek, Namibia. She is the Co-ordinator of the Gender Research & Advocacy Project at the Legal Assistance Centre, a public interest law center involved in litigation, research, public education and advocacy. She specialises in violence against women and family law issues and is currently working together with the Namibian government on the drafting of new legislation for Namibia, such as the Combating of Rape Act, 2000, and a forthcoming Domestic Violence Bill.
Director of the non profit organization, Gift From Within since l993. Our website address is www.sourcemaine.com/gift. GFW is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to those who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. GFW develops and disseminates educational material, including videotapes, articles, books, and a website. GFW maintains a roster of survivors who are willing to participate in an international network of peer support.
Rural Coordinator Women's Center of Northeastern Connecticut P. O Box 24 Willimantic, CT 06226 (860) 456-3595
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Department of Justice
Crime Victims with Disabilities Initiative State Department of Mental Health Sacramento, CA
Attorney. New Orleans, LA -- Litigated sexual abuse & domestic violence cases in 30 states. Trained across the country. Authored numerous pieces of legislation in Louisiana on child welfare and d.v.
Regional Staff Attorney Northwest Women's Law Center Seattle, WA
Oklahoma City, OK Executive Director, OK CADVSA, 2525 Northwest Expressway, Suite 101, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Rockport, MA - Peace at Home -- Public Information Campaign Director. Peace at Home is a nonprofit, human rights organization whose mission is to stop domestic violence by socially redefining this abuse as a human rights violation and by documenting its ongoing severity and lethality. Peace at home promotes public awareness about the solutions to domestic violence.
Baltimore, MD -- Clinical Director, TurnAround, Inc.Clinical Social Worker, psychotherapy experience with SA/DV victims. Implemented a project working with victims in the gay community.
Atlanta, GA - Director, Center for Child Abuse, Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics.
Los Angeles, CA - Attorney, Western Law Center for Disability Rights
Key West, FL -- Supervisor - Domestic Abuse Shelter, Inc.
Piscataway, NJ - Assistant Professor -UMDNJ School of Public Health -- I recently received a grant through the Violence Institute of NJ to examine issues related to violence directed toward disabled persons and the role of the media.
Shreveport, LA - Director, Victim Asst. Program, DA's Office
Gainesville, GA - Programs Director/Battered Women
Road Town Tortola, British Virgin Islands - Director - Family Support Network, an NGO dedicated to eliminating Domestic Violence in the BVI. Background: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Delaware, USA), MS in Counseling and MSW; many years working with women's issues, primarily focused on adult survivors of sexual abuse. I have worked in clinic, prison, non-profit, for profit and private pratice settings. I assumed the position of first Director of Family Support Network in January 2001.
naples, fl -- dv court advocate -- shelter for abused women
Santa Ana, Ca. I have been a civil litigator for 25 years representing plaintiffs exclusively. Our firm does extensive trial work. We are currently representing clients who are victims of abuse.
Managua, Nicaragua - Area Coordinator - Fundación Puntos de Encuentro - Background: Mission statement "Puntos de Encuentro para transformar la vida cotidiana" is a feminist non-profit development organization that works in the areas of communication, research and education. We are dedicated to having a multicultural and multidisciplinary staff of men and women, adults and young people, with different social and class backgrounds and sexual preferences. We work towards a people-centered sustainable development model, based on the principle of diversity with equity and the promotion of physical, sexual, economic, cultural and political individual and collective autonomy for women and young people. Institutional goal We work towards the establishment of new values, attitudes, behaviors and social relationships based on the principles of inclusion, respect, solidarity, non-violence, cooperation and equal rights and opportunities for women and men, young people and adults, people with different sexual preferences, and for all people. Both our organizational culture and policies, as well as our theoretical framework in regards to the concepts of power, domination, interpersonal relations, the social construction men's and women's identities, and social organization, are grounded in feminist theory and practice and the principle of diversity with equity. We work from a broad conception of human rights and consider that real advances in this area especially in regards to individual rights and daily life interactionrequire promoting the development of conscious and conscientious people capable of acting on their own behalf to make changes that will benefit them. This means people must develop the ability to identify and analyze the causes and manifestations of social exclusion, discrimination and violence, and be able to look for and develop proposals to promote and facilitate individual and collective participation in social change and decision-making processes.
City & County of Honolulu EMS - I am a paramedic, domestic violence counselor and have been doing research on domestic violence and emergency medical services for over three years. I am also sit on the board of a community non-profit involved in domestic violence. I was instrumental in producing a national survey of Emergency Medical Services and domestic violence that was published in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services this past year (June, 1999). Our department is engaged in establishing a comprehensive emergency medical response to the domestic violence patient. I developed our curriculum, and trained all of our paramedics, EMTs, and administration in domestic violence at the beginning of this year. Our program was recently highlighted in the City & County of Honolulu Mayor's Report to the WHO-KOBE. I am continuing to work on analyzing our program, networking with other local & national agencies and doing further research to enhance our understanding and skills in the care of the domestic violence patient.
Redondo Beach, CA -- arriage,Family & ChildTherapist - I am a licensed therapist specializing in Parent/Child relationship issues. I teach parenting classes to help give parents the tools needed to raise responsible and cooperative children. I have over 5 years of experience working in the foster care field where I worked with children who were removed from their homes due to severe abuse and/or neglect. I also volunteered at a domestic violence shelter and provided therapy for the children and their mothers.
CSD of Minnesota -- I coordinate services for the deaf/hard of hearing Minnesotans in eleven counties including the Twin Cities metro area. Our program is designed to assist in filling the gaps in service provision that is currently available to victims. We also do educational outreach and training on issues related to hearing loss and domestic violence.
I currently run Heather L. Poole, PC, one the nation's few private law firms primarily devoted to the rights of battered immigrants. I am a consultant to the U visa working group fo the National Network on Behalf of Battered Immigrant Women and have had great success in obtaining green cards and lawful immigrant status for abused immigrants.
Tallahassee, Florida - Florida Legal Services - developed dv manual for Florida Bar; was liaison for ABA Commission on DV; manage a statewide dv legal hotline; member of Fla Bar for 20 years.
Executive Director, Statewide California Coalition for Battered Women
Pocatello, Idaho -- Idaho State University --Research Associate Professor -- Interim Director, Institute of Rural Health - Director, Telehealth Idaho
Assistant State Attorney, Key West Florida
Las Vegas, Nevada - Attorney At Law
San Diego, CA -- Patrol Officer, University of San Diego. Department of Public Safety.
Lansing, MI -- Attorney. Director, Michigan Department of Community Health, Office of Recipient Rights.
Sacramento, CA - California District Attorneys Association. Director, Violence Against Women Project
San Bruno, CA -- Heisler and Associates.
Edmonton, Alberta - - Chartered Psychologist
San Diego, CA - President, Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute.
Anchorage Alaska -- Center for Psychosocial Development - Clinic Coordinator
Anchorage, Alaska - Center for Psychsocial Development. Clinical Director.
Larry Lewack has over 15 years' management experience in the nonprofit sector in Vermont. His roles have included program development, grants, marketing, professional training and public outreach. He served as a housing advocate for people with disabilities, as Development and Public Relations director for a local ARC, and matched severely impaired clients with sophisticated computer access and speech prosthetic technology for a small Vermont business serving a national clientele. He previously directed a five year U.S. Dept. of Justice grant program that addresses victims of child abuse and neglect. He currently serves as Director of the Disability Project for Victim Assistance. In that role, he coordinates the project's outreach and training to justice system professionals about appropriate accommodations for survivors of crime with disabilities, and provides victim advocacy and support to survivors. This project helps survivors with a variety of disabilities, and deals with a variety of issues, including domestic violence, sexual assault, abuse and exploitation, and other crimes.
Director for State Legislation American Bar Association Governmental Affairs Office 740 15th Street, NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20005-1022
Yuma, AZ -- Victim Services Coordinator Quechan Indian Tribe
Los Angeles, CA - Program Coordinator - L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center - STOP Partner Abuse/Domestic Violence Program.
Program Manager, DV Program, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
Durban South Africa -- Provincial co-ordinator -- Organization: KZN Network on Violence Against Women -- WE ARE A COALIATION OF ORGANISATIONS WORKING TOWARDS THE PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
National Crime Prevention Council, Washington, DC - Program Manager for the Community Outreach and Support Team. Authored recent 150-page NCPC document "50 Strategies to Prevent Violent Domestic Crimes," October 2002, highlighting innovations serving elderly victims of late-life abuse, teens in dating relationships, survivors of same-sex partner abuse, child witnesses to violence, battered immigrants, and female/male victims of spousal abuse.
Communications Director --Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Cocoa Florida - Executive Director, Protect Our Children Inc. We are grassroots organization dedicated to the prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. WWW.USPOC.ORG Protect Our Children,Inc. 120-A Harrison St. Suite 1 Cocoa, Fl 32922 Phone: 321-638-3711
Elizabeth Biffl is an Assistant State Attorney in Fort Myers, Florida. She's been prosecuting domestic violence cases since 1998, and conducts trainings with law enforcement, medical providers, and community groups on issues involved in prosecuting domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
Mike Brigner, J.D. Dayton, Ohio MIKE BRIGNER is one of Ohios leading experts in the field of domestic violence. He authored two editions of the Ohio Domestic Violence Benchbook for Judges and Magistrates; and consulted on similar projects for the states of Pennsylvania and Georgia; he is the immediate past chair of the Ohio Supreme Court Domestic Violence Advisory Committee that created standard statewide protection order forms; and he has testified repeatedly before the Ohio General Assembly on domestic violence legislation. In his legal career, he has authored over 100 articles on legal topics, most of them regarding family law and domestic violence. Prof. Brigner served a decade as an Ohio domestic relations court judge whose duties included exclusive jurisdiction over divorces and civil protection order cases. He is experienced in training judges, lawyers, police departments, prosecutors, and other professionals across the United States on domestic violence issues. He has trained judges about competency in domestic violence cases in Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, California, and throughout the state of Ohio. Prof. Brigner also helped produce a set of national domestic violence training videos for judges, and appeared in the award-winning "City of Shelter" community training video series. He serves as a technical advisor for the Battered Womens Justice Project, one of the nations leading family violence prevention organizations. And he is a member of the advisory board for the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative. As an Associate Professor at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, he trains paralegal students in law and legal procedure. Contact Information: Mike Brigner, J.D. Assoc. Prof., Law & Paralegal Program Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street, #5348 Dayton, OH 45402 937/512-2950 mike.brigner@sinclair.edu http://people.sinclair.edu/mikebrigner/
Toby Cremer has worked with the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs since 1997, and currently provides technical assiatance to local rape crisis centers and state sexual assault coalitions on nonprofit managment topics. She has a B.A. from The Evergreen State College, with an emphasis in Cultural Studies.
I am an attorney who has been an advocate for women who have been abused for the last 25 years. I am the author of several books on sex discrimination with an emphasis on sexual harassment and have worked extensively with sexual assault and domestic violence survivors. I am currently speaking out on dating violence and wish to connect with other who are working on this issue with high school and college students. I am also the originator of "My Avenging Angel" workshops for women who have been abused who desire to move beyond the abuse in their lives to create new futures for themselves and their children.
Detective Senior Constable, Brisbane Queensland 4000 -- Background: Detective Senior Constable working at the Sexual Crimes Investigation unit, Queensland Police Service, Australia. 10 years policing experience
Atlanta, GA -- Chief, PDEB -- CDC/NCIPC/DVP -- I have been an active applied researcher in child maltreatment for almost 25 years. Currently, I head the Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention at CDC. Our focus is the prevention of child maltreatment, violence against women, suicide, and youth violence.
I am a 2002-2003 Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow and a staff attorney at the Legal Clinic for the Disabled in Philadelphia. My fellowship project focuses on abuse and neglect of people with disabilities by personal care attendants and caregivers. I'm involved in outreach activities to increase awareness of abuse issues, and the creation of legal strategies to assist people who have been abused.
Executive Director, Safe Homes, Rape Crisis Coalition. Spartanburg, SC
VAWnet Sexual Assault Coordinator, National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center, Dearborn, Michigan
Susan McGee is the President of Minerva, Inc., an organization dedicated to helping businesses, corporations, and government eradicate domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Services include consultation, policy development, training, and grant-writing. She is the former director of the Domestic Violence Project, Inc./SAFE House in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Child Abuse and Neglect Council in Jackson, Michigan. She trains throughout the country on a variety of topics.
Coleen Widell has held positions in criminal justice, direct services and public administration. After completing graduate school, she served as a Probation Officer for the state of Washington for fifteen years working with battered workers, criminal offenders and abused women and their children. Coleen is the author of many books and articles about domestic violence spillover into the workplace, including Dead Dollar$: The Corporate Cost of Domestic Violence and "Domestic Violence Targets the Heart of American Business." Coleen is a contributing writer for several national newspapers, business and security journals and magazines on the subject of employer liability and responsibility related to domestic violence in the workplace.
Rapid CIty, SD - Education Coordinator -- Sacred Circle - National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women
Facilitator to a healing circle for Native American sexual abuse survivors.
Duluth, MN -- Writer -- Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project
Chief, University Police Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
President and CEO, NCCAFV
Saudi Arabia - Legal Consultant / Lawyer
Managua, NICARAGUA - My thesis research for a Master's in Psychology with the University of Barcelona ("Diagnosis and intervention with Children and Adolescents") is about Child Sexual Abuse in Nicaragua: Clinical manifestations and the impact of short-term group therapy.
I work primarily with Alaska Natives in rural Alaska in a Community Mental Health Center, providing counseling and crisis intervention services to sexual abuse and domestic violence survivors.
A consultant and an Adjunct Professor in Law who won the 2001 ACT Women's award, DrEasteal is a nationally and internationally recognized academic and author who specialises in gender, multiculturalism, culture and the law. She was a Senior Criminologist at the Australian Institute of Criminology and a Visiting Fellow Scholar at the Law Faculty, Australian National University. She has aimed in her research, writing and teaching to advance an understanding of the interaction between law and society. Most of her work has looked at the patriarchal context of the law and how the structures, language, and values/beliefs/myths affect women and ethnic minorities who interact with the legal system as defendants, victims, or as practitioners. Her primary focus has been on criminal law (sexual assault, provocation, self-defence, domestic violence) but also has conducted research relevant to family law, immigration law and the area of sexual discrimination and harassment. Her published work includes numerous academic articles published in Australian and internaional articles, chapters and conference papers and books including: The Forgotten Few: Overseas-born Women in Australian Prisons (1992, Bureau of Immigration and Population Research), Killing the Beloved: Homicide Between Adult Sexual Intimates (1993, Australian Institute of Criminology), Voices of the Survivors (1994, Spinifex Press), Shattered Dreams: Marital Violence Against Overseas-born Women in Australia (1996, Bureau of Immigration and Multicultural Population Research), Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture (1998, Federation Press), and Less Than Equal: Women and the Australian Legal System (2001, Butterworths). She has served as an expert witness for battered women in criminal trials, family court and immigration tribunals. She has given many public addresses, workshops and media on domestic violence and sexual assault. Patricia also has served on the Canberra Rape Crisis Service for the past seven years and has been on vaious women's refuges' collectives since living in Australia (1987 - from US and Canada). She is currenly engaged in a year long research project on sexual assault by (ex) or current partners.
University of Miami, School of Medicine Center on Aging & Disabilities
Over 10 years working with battered and sexually assaulted women; author of 3 books and numerous articles on domestic violence and women in prison; sociologist, researcher and writer; professor of sociology and women's studies; trainer on issues of same-sex domestic violence and on LGBT issues.
I have been involved in services for battered and sexually assaulted women as a social worker and as an attorney for approzimately ten years. I am currently planning programming for youth at risk for perpetrating domestic violence and for young women at risk of being victims of domestic violence.
Assistant Clinical Director Sanctuary for Families New York
Director Women's Rights Project American Civil Liberties Union 125 Broad Street, 18th Fl. New York, NY 10004
Founding director of the INS Resource Information Center (RIC), a human rights library, documentation and research center. The RIC is a Branch of the national Asylum program administered by INS. My experience includes over 20 of management experience and over 30 years of federal service with US Department of Labor, US Peace Corps, and US Immigration & Naturalization Service.
Linda DeWeese, MA.Ed, LPC--mental health counselor and psychotherapist in private practice, counseling with victims of domestic violence for the past 16 years; holds a BA in psychology, a MA.Ed in mental health counseling, a National Certified Counselor, a Licensed Professional Counselor. Additionally, speaks and presents workshops on domestic violence, stress management, and self enhancement. Author of "Hallie's Story: Profile of a Battered Woman." Available for talks and trainings on domestic violence. Contact: ldeweese@brinet.com; (828) 683-4383 phone; (828) 254-8977 office; (828) 683-9368 fax.
Joanne Archambault is the Executive Director of EVAW International and the President and Training Director of SATI, Inc. SATI provides effective, victim centered, multi-disciplinary training and expert consultation regarding crimes of sexual assault. In January 2003, Ms. Archambault founded EVAW International, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable training for all disciplines with an emphasis on the law enforcement investigation and proper criminal justice responses to sexual assault and domestic violence. EVAW also supports and conducts research on the sexual assault of women and adolescents. Prior to full time consulting work, Ms. Archambault worked for the San Diego Police Department for almost 23 years, until her retirement in October 2002. From 1985 to 1988, she served as a detective in the Child Abuse Unit. In 1987, she developed the first curriculum for the investigation of Child Abuse for the San Diego Police and Reserve Academy. Other assignments included Internal Affairs, the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, Patrol and Crimes Against Persons and Gangs. In 1991, she revamped the sexual assault curriculum at the San Diego Regional Law Enforcement Academy. During the last ten years of her service, Sergeant Archambault supervised the Sex Crimes Unit. The unit has 13 detectives and is responsible for investigating approximately 1,000 felony sexual assaults within the City of San Diego each year. During her tenure as supervisor, she co-authored the San Diego County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Resource Pamphlet and she produced a video on SART; which is used as a training aid for professionals responding to sexual assault. In 1999, Sergeant Archambault worked with the National Center for Women & Policing to develop the first national sexual assault training curriculum for law enforcement. To enhance this work, in 2001 she produced a series of training videos entitled, Sexual Assault Training and Investigations: The Preliminary Response. Sergeant Archambault has had the privilege to work on numerous National advisory boards including the National Institute of Justice, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the STOP Violence Against Women Grants Technical Assistance Project, the American Prosecutors Research Institute and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Her presentations reflect issues and best practices from across the United States in addition to the expertise she developed in San Diego. Sergeant Archambault has written and co-authored a number of articles and chapters on various subjects relating to the criminal justice response to sexual assault crimes. They address topics such as: the role of law enforcement, the Forensic Examination, the impact of DNA and overcoming a consent defense. She has lectured extensively to multi-disciplinary audiences on the role of law enforcement in the investigation of Sex Crimes throughout the U.S. and abroad.
I got interested in stalking and threat assessment because of personal experience in a high risk cyberstalking case. I do legal research and advocacy for other crime victims. I have done research on crimes in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, focusing on college age and high school age populations. These crimes include sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, and homicide.
Lila Shapero is a partner in Shapero & Joseph. Shapero & Joseph provide consulting and training in legal and policy issues. Ms. Shapero is trainer for the Vermont Victim Academy and wrote "Ethical Standards: What Victims Can Expect During the Criminal Process". She is currently facilitating the victim assistance provider ethical standards subcomittee for the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services (VCCVS). Shapero & Joseph evaluated the Vermont STOP Projects (2002) for VCCVS. Prior to the formation of Shapero & Joseph, Ms. Shapero practiced law for 25 years, most recently with Vermont Legal Aid (1989-2001) where her practice focused on protecting victims of domestic violence, housing and homeless issues, and welfare advocacy. At VLA, she provided representation for the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault including the adoption and implementation of the Family Violence Option and the Address Confidentiality Program. She has served as the Vermont Bar Association (VBA) representative to the Vermont Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Family Rules, past chair of the VBA Family Law Committee, past chair of the Chittenden County Domestic Violence Task Force, and past representative to the Vermont Family Violence Council.
Elise Miller, M.Ed. is founder and executive director of the Institute for Childrens Environmental Health (ICEH) based in Freeland, Washington. She brings a wealth of experience from the foundation and non-profit worlds where she has worked with various organizations on environmental health concerns nationally and internationally. Ms. Miller serves on the national boards of directors of the Childrens Environmental Health Network (in Washington, DC) and the Whidbey Institute (in Clinton, WA). In addition, she is on the advisory board of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in northern California, the Healthy Schools Network, Inc., (in New York), and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (in Massachusetts). She also recently completed a fellowship at the Fetzer Institute, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for her work on environmental health and with emerging leaders committed to fostering sustainability locally, nationally and internationally. From 1993-98, she was executive director of the Jenifer Altman Foundation, a private foundation in northern California with interests in sustainable development, mind-body health, environmental health, and issues affecting disadvantaged children. Ms. Miller has also been an editor, teacher, researcher, mental health counselor, journalist and grassroots advocate. She has studied and worked in England, France and India and traveled extensively in various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. She received her Masters degree in Education with a concentration in adolescent psychology from Harvard University in 1992 and her Bachelors degree with high honors in History from Dartmouth College in 1985.
I am currently a Technical Assistance Specialist II with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As a staff member of the Technical Assistance/Public Education Team I provide information, consultation and technical assistance, on a broad range of topics related to intimate partner violence, to individuals, agencies and organizations nationwide. I've worked as an educator, child advocate and children's counselor for 32 years, and have worked with battered women and their children since 1987. During that time, I've provided direct services to women, youth and children both in SAFEshelter and Out-Client Programs, directed the Childrens Program at my agency and designed and implemented community education/prevention programs at the local and state levels. In 1994, I received the Boulder County Victim Advocacy Award for community work on behalf of children exposed to domestic violence. In my local Colorado community, I participated in the work of the Longmont Youth Response Team, Violence Prevention Group, Gang Task Force, Longmont-A-Community-That-Cares, Longmont Ending Violence Initiative, and the St. Vrain Valley School District. From 1990 through 1992, I served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV). I acted as Chairperson for the Childrens Advocacy Committee, a standing committee of CCADV, from 1990 until 1993. In addition I've participated in the CCADV Legislative Committee and the Children Who Witness Domestic Violence Sub-committee.
Executive Director and Founder: CAVA (Community Anti-Violence Alliance). Co-Founder, Former Chairperson: Coalition Against Domestic Violence of Steuben Couny. Co-Founder: Branch County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. F.B.W.
Katrina Dalrymple is a senior undergraduate student in Psychology (pre-professional emphasis) at the University of Montana - Missoula. She currently assists Christine Fiore, Ph.D., in her research on Domestic Violence and the Trans-theoretical Model of Change. Katrina also volunteers about 35 hours a week at an on-campus organization to assist victims/survivors of Child Sexual Assault, Relationship Violence, and Sexual Violence, and the friends/family of those survivors. She plans to earn a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and continue her work in the areas of trauma and its lasting effects.
Director of Programs World Federalist Association 418-420 7th St SE Washington, DC 20003
Verónica Frenkel holds a Masters degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Webster University. She is recognized nationally as an expert trainer and consultant on domestic violence issues and, through her own business, Pathways Consulting, also provides consultation and technical assistance on a variety of organizational development topics, including leadership, cultural awareness group dynamics, conflict resolution, workplace violence and others. Between 1998 and May 2003 Veronica held the position of Nevada Domestic Violence Ombudsman. As part of her commitment to raising public awareness about the epidemic of domestic violence, she spearheaded and acted as Coordinator for the Nevada Corporate Citizenship Initiative against Domestic Violence, an initiative focused on raising awareness of employers about the impact of domestic violence on the workplace. Veronica continues to coordinate the CCI as a consultant to the Attorney Generals Office. As Ombudsman, she facilitated many of Nevadas efforts at the state level to improve domestic violence prevention and intervention, through system training, the formation of coordinating councils and committees, legislation, and policy development and has had vast experience in training, the criminal justice system, public speaking and working with media. Her professional experience prior to joining the Attorney General's Office includes fourteen years of work in the area of domestic violence, as a counselor, legal advocate, trainer, consultant, policy analyst, and community educator. Specifically, she worked as Policy Analyst with the Family Violence Project of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, collaborating with national experts on policy development and analysis in the areas of child protection, child custody, victim advocacy, and state and federal mandates as related to domestic violence. In addition, for three years she assisted the Massachusetts Attorney Generals Office and the Northwestern District Attorneys Office in Northampton, Massachusetts in developing a domestic violence unit in offering domestic violence training and consulting to prosecutors and law enforcement. She also worked for two years as a domestic violence consultant to child protective workers within the Massachusetts Department of Social Services regarding the impact of domestic violence on children. A Chilean-American, Verónica has spent most of her adult life working for social justice, conflict resolution, womens issues, and non-violence throughout the Americas. Her personal vision is to find or create mutually-beneficial solutions to address conflicts and to build a violence-free world for her five-year old daughter, Krystina, and for all future generations.
Judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals: "(CAVNET) is a true asset to the community who deals with this issue. I handled about 5,000 DV cases as a metropolitan judge in Albuquerque. Many of the postings would have been most helpful had I known about you then. By sharing information and approaches to the problem of violence, and problems resulting from violence in our society, you provide a valuable clearing house for information and ideas...."
Lyn Bates has been Vice President of AWARE for 10 years. AWARE is a non-profit group that provides information and training to enable women to avoid, deter, repel or resist crimes ranging from minor harassment to violent assault. AWARE has special information and services for women at very high risk, such as stalking victims. Lyn counsels stalking victims (and those who help them) in areas such as situation analysis, risk assessment, and the development of detailed, highly personalized self-protection plans. Lyn has had extensive self-defense training in a wide variety of defensive methods; she is certified to teach a broad range of techniques. She has won awards for her teaching and writing, and has lectured at annual training meetings of the American Society of Law Enforcement Training, Women in Federal Law Enforcement, the International Women Police Association, the American Society of Criminology, and the American Womens Self-Defense Association.. She has published over 100 articles on defensive strategies for women, and is the author of the book Safety for Safety for Stalking Victims: How to Save Your Privacy, Your Sanity, and Your Life (iUniverse Press, 2001).
Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership. New Brunswick, NJ. The Global Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas. Since 1990, the Global Center as fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being. The Global Center's programs are in two broad areas of policy & advocacy and leadership development & global education.
Although as a police officer here in Ireland doing general police duties, when possible, I have also been working in the area of Domestic Violence, Rape and Sexual Assault. In order to enhance my own personnal standards of service, without assistance, I have travelled to both the UK and USA to undertake specialised courses in these areas. At present, I am trying to complete my Masters studies while trying to organise an exhibition of 365 posters from all over the world on the issues of DV, Rape and Sexual Assault to signify the global problem of violence against women, taking place here in Ireland in January, 2004. I have had a great response especially from the USA with offers of posters. But, if you know anyone outside the US that can assist with posters, please get them to contact me at coldem@eircom.net In friendship and peace Colm
George Twiss Jr. (Oglala Lakota) Director, Management Team Cangleska, Inc. PO Box 3003 Pine Ridge, SD 57770 George is an Oglala Lakota tribal member from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.has been involved in tribal and BIA law enforcement in Indian Country, first as a uniformed officer then as a criminal investigator since 1983. In 1992, he was promoted to the position of BIA Criminal Investigator-Child Abuse, for the Minneapolis Area, working with felony child abuse and domestic violence cases in a four-state area. (His position was one of only six such criminal investigator positions nationwide). His responsibilities also included computerized case tracking and data collection for all area criminal investigations, including child abuse and domestic violence. He has also served as the BIA Area Victim/Witness Coordinator with the Minnesota District U.S. Attorney's Office. He retired from the BIA Division of Law Enforcement Services in 1995. He started with the Cangleska, Inc. Domestic Violence Program as the Liaison/Tracker and at present holds the position of Management Team Director in charge of Systems Monitoring, Probation, Outreach Advocacy, and civil legal services. He has been a faculty member of Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project since April, 1997, as well as a Sacred Circle faculty member since 1998. George has worked as a consultant/faculty with National Indian Court Judges Association, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, National Center for State Courts, Battered Women's Justice Project, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, American Probation and Parole Association, and other national and Indian Country domestic violence and law enforcement projects. He is a graduate of the U.S. Indian Police Academy, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) Basic Criminal Investigator Course, FLETC Child Abuse Criminal Investigation Training, as well as specializing in child abuse training through the BIA Law Enforcement Division. He attended as well as made presentations at regional and national conferences on child abuse, family violence, and related law enforcement issues in Indian country. George is a nationally recognized domestic violence expert, law enforcement trainer, and certified law enforcement trainer through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. George is a proud single-parent father of four, a grandfather (X 3), and a Little League/softball/basketball dad.
Legal Advocacy Coordinator for Domestic Violence Services, YWCA of Central Alabama. Previously worked as a senior attorney for 4 years for Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, the protection and advocacy system for Alabama.
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10 years as executive in major computer firms/owned marketing consulting firm/ owned publishing company in education field/advocacy in LD/Autism for 14 years. Co-Developed diet protocol program used in autism--internet site several thousand members, worldwide.
Executive Director Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA)
Staff Attorney ACLU Women's Rights Project
Washington, D.C. Assistant Director Commission on Domestic Violence American Bar Association
Scientist and Engineer
Founder of WomanKind: An Integrated Model of 24-Hour Health Care Response to Domestic Violence; executive director of WomanKind for 14 years; adjunct faculty of University of Minnesota Medical School, School of Public Health, and School of Social Work
President, UNIFEM Australia