Please read “about us page” to understand they are an umbrella-type (corporation? Agency? arm of government, sort of?) — and understand this is a common model in many, many states.
I first began to understand how this alters the distribution of grants and funding primarily through formation — under the state Executive Dept (Governor’s Office) level of “Children’s Cabinets.” See “Footloose in Tuscaloosa.” While from the governmental point of view, it’s about streamlining and efficient “delivery of services” from the “WHO is funding all this?” (individual US taxpayers) point of view, it should basically be understood as collectivism. In short, a vote against representative government…
In MD, now I know what a “LMB” is — it’s a subdivision (function) of the state-level Governor’s Office of Children:
The duties and responsibilities of the LMB include collaborative planning and decision making with regard to the following:
- Contracting with public and private agencies to provide interagency services. LMB contracts ensure the provision for non-categorical, family-focused, community-based, culturally relevant, outcomes-based programs/services. (LMB’s are not direct service providers).
- Developing and implementing a community plan which includes creating/expanding the local community-based service delivery system for children and their families.
- Coordinating children and family services within Kent County, to eliminate fragmented and/or duplicated services.
- Planning, goal setting, developing, funding, implementing and monitoring services to children and families in Kent County.
- Shifting the programmatic focus to prevention and early intervention services.
- Strengthening the decision-making capacity at a local level.
- Galvanizing resources available to support children and families in their communities.
The LMB Policies and Procedures Manual can be found online at
http://www.goc.state.md.us (redirects to: http://goc.maryland.gov/)
The Governor’s Office for Children (GOC) is led by the Executive Director who chairs the Children’s Cabinet. The work of the office includes:
- Managing the Children’s Cabinet Interagency Fund.
- Convening the State Agencies, local partners, and community stakeholders to develop policies and initiatives which reflect the priorities of the Governor and the Children’s Cabinet and which improve services for Maryland’s children and youth.
- Partnering with the Local Management Boards in each Maryland jurisdiction to plan, coordinate, and develop comprehensive systems of care, to fund and monitor the delivery of integrated services to children and families; and to inform the collective and specific work of the Children’s Cabinet by developing and supporting an interagency data management system, collecting and analyzing additional data, and reporting to the Children’s Cabinet, the General Assembly, and other stakeholders on the progress of Maryland’s children.
@@@@@Does it sound to you like our state and local (including county-level) governments are looking more and more like corporations, with boards, executive chairs, fund-raisers, and roundtables?? Or Councils? Or Circles? this basically changes the distribution networks, so at the ground (local) level, one can either reach UP the tentacle, or just simply start at the federal level and see if you can trace the influence and service organizations all the way down to one’s own neighborhood. If along the way, several nonprofits are formed to take fundings and then are dissolved WHO CARES? (who’s to know?)
Once in place, these Children’s Cabinets or similar creations, will start re-arranging government, as in “Transferred Functions” [<==that link broken, here’s a newer one]– and now we have a Family Violence Council with Crime Prevention and (frightening terminology, but here it is) a “Mental Hygiene” function !
LMB Functions …
The LMB’s role is to make sure that services are coordinated, of high quality, and achieve Maryland’s results for children and families.
The programs spearheaded by the Local Management Board are accomplished primarily through State funds that have been combined from the different child-serving agencies at the State level and are made available to us by the Governor’s Office for Children to address local needs. We have also received funding from the Maryland Department of Education, the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention, and Federal sources. Local dollars have also been designated by the Kent County Commissioners.
Dr. Kevin Karpowicz , Chair **
CUMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE
Bill Kerbin , Vice Chair
PUBLIC AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE
Planning Housing & Zoning
Myra Butler , Secretary/Treasurer
PUBLIC AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE
Kent County Parks and Recreation
Bill Clark ,
PUBLIC AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE
Department of Juvenile Services
**pediatrician with previous history in NY as well? I DNK. Let’s hope the typo was not a Freudian slip.
We gather as God’s holy people, formed as the church through the power of the Holy … Dr.Kevin Karpowicz will address the gathering with an overview of the ” …[ www.albany.net ] (brokenlink, but he’s a “Prominent Schenectady (NY) Pediatrician” board-certified 1980
At any rate, the Kent County LMB has a link offering some programs and initiatives. This is what prompted my post today: (9/18/2012)
Please click to link or call the following numbers to learn more about the programs :
Girls Circle, The Council for Boys and Young Men, & Mother-Daughter Circle
Vendor: Women In Need – call (410) 778-3844
Girls Circle, The Council for Boys and Young Men, & Mother-Daughter Circle -Girls Circle are strengths-based structured support groups for girls ages 9-18 where participants take turns talking and listening to one another respectfully about their concerns and interests.
I clicked on the link which led to:
WIN’s goal is to provide unique assistance that fills the gap between what is available and what is necessary. Many organizations exist that offer various levels of assistance, and we do not intend to duplicate any existing program.
WIN partners with existing organizations to offer families comprehensive support to meet their needs, stepping in when existing services are either absent or inadequate.
We have established a referral network as our gateway program, requiring potential clients to exhaust all public and private remedies (Social Services, Private and Faith-based organizations) prior to being considered for additional assistance through our programs.
History — (I did look up corporations history quite a bit — several name changes, etc., not more than average, though. One seemed to hail from Roanoke, VA, but others can check it out better).
History
How we started…in 1997 a small group of friends witnessed a woman and her children suffering the devastating effects of economic and emotional crisis from an unexpected divorce and took action. We gathered together and supported her with our time, money, and prayers. We pooled our resources and covered her expenses as well as provided the emotional support she so desperately needed.
What about her family law case, child support, etc? Was she a victim of abuse or just an abandoned home-maker, or abandoned wife? What did they learn from the situation? Where is that woman’s story — anywhere available? The year 1997 speaks to me; welfare reform was 1996….
With the divorce rate currently exceeding 50%, men, women and children are suffering the devastating effects of broken families. Not only do we help these families but we locate and assist others through personal contact in order to empower and strengthen them both psychologically as well as financially.
OK, so their frame of reference is that broken families and divorce is the problem. This doesn’t seem to me like an economic analysis of cause, and say snothing about child support, abandonment, abuse, or stripping of someone’s assets. It appears to have a religious origin (see “prayers”) very overt, yet is taking referral business from a LMB which is itself under the Governor’s Office of Children and links right to this LMB. I saw no link (whatsoever) at the “LMB” level addressing the issue of abuse, domestic, or family violence. at all…..
Why we were formed
“Women In Need, Inc.” was formed to provide an alternative to welfare that fulfills the word and intent of the Book of James: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27(NIV).Single parent families are the widows and orphans of this generation. We feel it is our Christian duty to provide the practical and personal touch todays families need.
How ironic. I’m a Christian (or at least, I’ve spent years reading the Bible; after the family experience of religious abuse and watching too many responses to it, I’m reluctant to call myself a “Christian” and do not attend. PERIOD.) — and almost cited this same section at the beginning of the previous post, as a point of CONTRAST with what the faith-based organizations were actually doing.
ANYHOW, I then clicked on programs and eventually saw that their Girls & Boys’ groups were based on a training model from California, as below. The print and graphics are not very clear; it took a while to sort out (there’s an “*” but hard to see where it comes from).
Girls Circle
Girls Circle specializes in programs built on the research-based model proven to increase girls’ self-efficacy, body image, and social support.
The strengths-based, skill building approach creates a safe space for girls to address risky behaviors, build on protective factors, and improve relationships in a format that interests and engages girls.
Click here for more information.
Mother-Daughter Circle
Based on the Girls Circle model. Provides a safe, consistent, and strength-based approach to supporting mothers or mother-figures and daughters on their relationship journey.
Expressive and creative activities are offered and provide the opportunity to express needs. Some topics include: healthy communication, communicating under stress, building and deepening trust, setting expectations and meeting needs, and an Appreciation Ceremony.
* The Alley and WIN are not the Girl’s Circle or Boys Council and our Girl’s Circle, Mother-Daughter Circle & The Council are programs that are based on the Girls Circle & The Council models. Please see: GIrls Circle and Boys Council for more information on their organizations.
There is no paragraph on this page which says “Boys Council.” So is “The Council” different from “Boys’ Council” (I can click, but this should be clearer). AND — why are Girls in Circles, and (if so) Boys in Councils — is that because Boys are leaders and Girls need group endorsement (i.e., Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, or the [even more] religious version, “Men are from Dirt, Women are from Men” ?? (Search this blog for source & relationship to federal grants trail).
The Council
The Council is a program hosted by The Alley Teen Center that promotes strength, responsibility, and community. The Council recognizes strengths and capacities, challenges stereotypes, questions unsafe attitudes about masculinity, and encourages solidarity through personal responsibility.
The vision for this Council is to help young men open their minds to different perspectives and skills to make a better future for themselves.
*These programs are in partnership with the Kent County Local Management Board.
Finding those programs, I found a brief statement that they were based on this model. Which turns out to be run nationwide, from a Nonprofit Foundation ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION in San Rafael, California. I find it VERY interesting that this could have such an amazing array of partner organizations (including what looks like plenty of courts, or juvenile probation departments) as it was only incorporated in California in April, 2011 (shortly before tax day).
| Entity Name: |
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION |
| Entity Number: |
C3370701 |
| Date Filed: |
04/01/2011 |
| Status: |
ACTIVE |
| Jurisdiction: |
CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Address: |
458 CHRISTENSEN LANE |
| Entity City, State, Zip: |
COTATI CA 94931 |
| Agent for Service of Process: |
JEFFERY A MOSS |
| Agent Address: |
454 LAS GALLINAS AVE #310 |
| Agent City, State, Zip: |
SAN RAFAEL CA 94903 |
Models & Best Practices
One Circle Foundation offers three models — Girls Circle, The Council for Boys and Young Men, and Women’s Circle. Our programs employ evidence-based principles of a strengths-based approach, motivational interviewing strategies and have a strong focus on positive youth development. The age old process of communing in a safe circle is the foundational strength of all programs.
A structured support group for girls from 9-18 years which integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training. Designed to increase positive connection, strengths, and competence in girls. Also offered under the model is Mother-Daughter Circle, for mothers or female caregivers and their daughters.
READ MORE |
A strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. In this structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and create good lives – individually and collectively!
READ MORE |
A support group for women to share, explore, build skills, and encourage one another to live authentically in mind, body, heart and spirit. A program for women in colleges, careers, recovery programs, institutions, job training, military or volunteer service, faith-based settings, homemakers and caregivers.
READ MORE |
Yes, men and boys join a COUNCIL group and women (mothers) and girls join a CIRCLE group. The linguistic associations are pretty obvious — sewing circle, an enclosed CIRCLE as opposed a meeting (a COUNCIL) which collaborates among itself and then exercise authority and decision, generally speaking outside that circle (council). ! ! ! Hardly surprising, given the origins of “WIN.”
And they’re pretty up-front about the difference, too:
We envision a world with an available and accessible “circle for every girl and young woman, and a council for every boy and young man.”
In case anyone is wondering how feminists are made, and exit the religious “circles” into activism against this kind of language discrimination, you’re in it. Moreover, this particular NONprofit has (naturally) trademarked its programs and look at the scope of “partnerships” . . . assuming these are all legitimate:
Participating Organizations
The following organizations have had at least one employee trained in the Girls Circle model between 1997 to present.
(note: having a single employee sit through a training program doesn’t necessarily mean it’s marketing the model — but look how they are going for the justice arena):
- Department of Juvenile Justice – Bartow FL
Department of Juvenile Justice – Lakeland
Department of Juvenile Justice, Plant City
Department of Juvenile Justice, Tampa
Dept. of Children Svcs., Tampa
- Juvenile Drug Court, Taos
Las Vegas Juvenile Justice Continuum Board
Life Options Academy, Albuquerque
Lincoln Co JJ Board
Los Alamos Municipal Court
Los Alamos Family Council, Los Alamos
MADD, Albuquerque
New Day Youth and Family Serv. {{a FAITH-BASED GRANTEE, I THINK — see last post, or TAGGS.hhs.gov. Fairly bi one in Texas, also see fatherhood funding).}}
NM Coalition Against DV, Albuquerque etc. etc. etc. (see link)
Our gender-responsive circle models and interventions are designed in evidence-based principles and practices, incorporating Motivational Interviewing, Cultural Responsivity, Strengths-Based approaches, and Trauma-Responsive practices.
Their big “research” appears to be a paper submitted as part of someone getting a Ph.D. (presumably) in Applied Psychology at Portland State — by studying Adolescent Inmates!! On pate 278, is the MOU between the department she’s trying to get a Ph.D. from (?) and The Boys Council, showing us who the Boys Council is a division of, which I”m about to look up as well.
Man Up”: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Adherence to Traditional Masculinity among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Inmates
by Mary Elisabeth Gray
A dissertation proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Psychology
Dissertation Committee: Eric Mankowski, Chair Ben Anderson-Nathe Todd Bodner Keith Kaufman Katherine McDonald
Portland State University © 2012
APPENDIX A Memorandum of Understanding (from the dissertation….)
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
DATE: January 14, 2008
TO: Eric Mankowski, Associate Professor, Applied Social & Community
Psychology
Department of Psychology, 317 Cramer Hall, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751
FR: Beth Hossfeld, MFT, Associate Director Boys Council, A Division of GCA/Tides, 458 Christensen Lane, Cotati, CA 94931***
RE: BOYS COUNCIL PILOT STUDY COLLABORATION
This memo is to confirm the understanding between the Department of Psychology, Portland State University (PSU)and Boys Council, A Division of GCA/Tides, (BC) to collaborate in the Boys Council Pilot Study project of 2008.
Ironically, the LINK for this dissertation is under “girlscircle” url:
http://www.girlscircle.com/docs/Research-TC-MGray.pdf
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***this street address matches the Corporation record (Sec. of State, above) of “OneCircle” – check it out! I suspect that overall, this is a “TIDES” project. The TIDES Foundation (and Center) is a major progressive (“change agent”type) foundation located in the San Francisco Praesidio (where Family Violence Prevention Fund, now Futures Without Violence, has relocated to as well), and which helps (s do many foundations) be an umbrellla organization for various progressive causes. “Stop Family Violence” for example, is one of theirs. While I have not yet located this “GCA/Tides (BC) yet, I am figuring that’s probably who’s sponsoring the group:
| ntity Name: |
TIDES FOUNDATION |
| Entity Number: |
C0770856 |
| Date Filed: |
06/04/1976 |
| Status: |
ACTIVE |
| Jurisdiction: |
CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Address: |
1014 TORNEY AVENUE, THE PRESIDIO |
| Entity City, State, Zip: |
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129 |
| Agent for Service of Process: |
LORENZO ERSLAND |
| Agent Address: |
1014 TORNEY AVENUE, THE PRESIDIO |
| Agent City, State, Zip: |
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129 |
Same address, different year…. different registration agent.
| Entity Name: |
THE TIDES CENTER |
| Entity Number: |
C1834045 |
| Date Filed: |
05/26/1994 |
| Status: |
ACTIVE |
| Jurisdiction: |
CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Address: |
PRESIDIO BLDG. 1014, TORNEY AVE. AT LINCOLN BLVD. |
| Entity City, State, Zip: |
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129 |
| Agent for Service of Process: |
CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY WHICH WILL DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA AS CSC – LAWYERS INCORPORATING SERVICE |
| Agent Address: |
2710 GATEWAY OAKS DR STE 150N |
| Agent City, State, Zip: |
SACRAMENTO CA 95833 |
As (sometimes) usual, I’m right about that, per basic websearch:
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GCA stands for “Girls’ Circle Association.” Please see the above Facilitator Training (in Watertown, WI), and note you can get ALL the guides for only, about [PDF:
GIRLS CIRCLE COMPLETE SET VALUE OF $980.00 – DISCOUNTED AT $880.00 Nine Activity Guides rich with skill-building themes and activities that promote critical thinking in all areas of girls’ lives. Save over 10% and get over a year’s worth of well-planned program material and curricula that you can mix and match as needed. Also includes the Facilitator Manual and Evaluation Tool Kit. (Mother-Daughter guide not included.)
This explains more, if it’s read carefully:
http://www.cerespolicyresearch.com/projects/proj_girls_circle.shtml
other ceres projects include the California AOC/CFCC & the Annie E. Casey Foundation (which worries me a little):
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girls circle associationData Analysis for Girls Circles in Juvenile Justice Settings
The Girls Circle Association (Girls Circle) is a non-profit organization that is a project of the Tides Center. Girls Circle has developed a model for girl-centered support groups. This model provides support groups that are delivered for girls by women. Girls Circle maintains facilitators from organizations such as probation department and school districts to set up circles for girls in a variety of institutional settings.
Ceres Policy Research analyzed survey data that was collected by Girls Circle Association and Dominican University of California. This data was collected from circles in fifteen different cities and included responses to three different validated instruments: a self-efficacy instrument, a body image instrument, and a perceived social support instrument. We paid special attention to whether girls in juvenile justice settings had different outcomes than girls in other settings.
Download a PDF file of the findings summary.
Program Evaluation
Once Girls Circle established that their curricula lead to gains in self-efficacy, body image, and perceived social support, they were interested in developing a research project that would measure a broader range of outcomes for girls participating in circles. Ceres Policy Research worked with the founders of Girls Circle Association to develop a logic model, a survey instrument, and a quasi-experimental research design.
Survey data from fifteen sites was collected in the 2006-7 school year.
Download a PDF file of the final report.
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There are pro’s and con’s to decentralized power. I prefer decentralized, but as the world spins, whoever controls technology and finances tends to control the power, and run the group therapy systems. For example, the family courts are sold as a “group” (collectivist) process, but in practice they are abusive, invasive, authoritarian (arbitrarily so) and it would take an army of investigators to track the funding and power control on them, by which time, their jurisdiction and authority would have expanded, again.
When circles are locally formed (i.e., are actually grassroots) and responsive and relevant to the local needs, that’s one matter. But when they are a training model, and franchised, then I have a problem with this. For one, the world’s got enough of that, and what we need is someone to take control of the outsized USGovernment and it’s perpetuation and expansion of the welfare (control) system, being sold as reducing or eliminating the same. We don’t need an army of oranizational models so this foundation, or that one, can avoid paying too many taxes, and then coach people who are highly stressed because the households they are living in probably don’t earn even enough to be either be subject to income-withholding, or who ARE working poor and paying a higher percentage of taxes.
Instead, just teach people how to do what the leaders are doing — avoid paying taxes, incorporate, sell something, and use the existing governmental reach (into almost every aspect of life) to market it, at someone else’s expense. Or, through private wealth traced back, eventually, to probably a Rockefeller, a Ford, or a Carnegie. Or one of the Casey Families…. I mean, it’s crazy to grow up around all this unconscious of it — these programs are changing our world, and yet they are in a sense also abusing their economic advantage by demanding to be “the” model to help poor people who (if they don’t behave in a similar manner) are going to grow up and either be institutionalized, or struggle NOT to be institutionalized as they bear the greater burden of the tax debts these outfits have managed to avoid!
ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION
MORE on “ONEFOUNDATION.org” (a nonprofit in California) which is marketing these various trainings:
One Circle Foundation Training
One Circle Foundation provides uniquely powerful, interactive, and experiential training for adults. Utilizing creative training techniques, the instructional design creates a respectful and engaging learning environment through the use of multimedia, hands-on practice, individual, and group activities.
LGH commentary. I italicized those words. Apart from the obvious economic (i.e., sales) aspect — the goal is values change. They are key words: *** {{group transference theory dating back to Tavistock, Michael Balint, etc. etc. — this is one of the (many) schools of psychology developed in the US, and as I said, the key is identification by association with the group leader, and the change-agent situation. (Kurt Lewin/Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze, etc — see my other Family Court Franchise System blog).
Trainings we offer:
Girls Circle Facilitator Training | The Council for Boys and Young Men Facilitator Training | Motivational Interviewing |
Bullying SOLUTIONS Training – Solution Coach® and Solution Team® | Mother-Daughter Circle: Heart of the Matter |
Strengths-Based Approach Training | Advanced Girls Circle Facilitator Training | Gender-Specific Fundamentals |
Cultural Competencies
Training Calendar
| Oct. 10-11 |
Santa Rosa, CA Girls Circle Initial Training |
Early bird $295, After 9/20 $350 REGISTER | View Flier |
| Nov. 1-2 |
Corvallis, OR The Council Initial Training |
Early bird $295, After 10/11 $350 REGISTER | View Flier |
| Nov. 28-29 |
Woodland, CA The Council Initial Training |
Early bird $295, After 10/29 $350 REGISTER | View Flier |
| Dec. 14-15 |
Columbus, OH Girls Circle Initial Training |
Early bird $295, After 11/15 $350 REGISTER | View Flier |
| Feb. 20-21 |
Nevada City, CA Girls Circle Initial Training |
Early bird $295, After 1/23 $350 REGISTER | View Flier |
….this organizations’ street address matches “MAWS” (Marin Abused Women’s Services), except it’s “suite A” — as listed on a CDPH.gov (Public health violence prevention for Marin County (north of SF and where San Rafael is) referral:
Marin Violence Prevention Resource Directory:
Marin Abused Women’s Services (MAWS) 734 A St. San Rafael, CA 94901 Phone
Hotline TTY Email http://www.maws.org/
(415) 457-2464 (415) 924-6616, (415) 924-3456 (Spanish), (415) 924-1070 (Men) (415) 457-2421 (TTY) admin@maws.org, contact@maws.org
…..That must be an old referral, because “MAWS” is now “Center for Domestic Peace(r)” its website is reminiscent of “ONECIRCLE” foundation, it is into the same ideas, and even calls itself a change agent.
(California Secretary of state address matches the address on “Circle Foundation” website, which differs from its Sec. of State registration address of Cotati, CA, above).
| Entity Name: |
CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE |
| Entity Number: |
C0823725 |
| Date Filed: |
08/09/1977 |
| Status: |
ACTIVE |
| Jurisdiction: |
CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Address: |
734 A ST |
| Entity City, State, Zip: |
SAN RAFAEL CA 94901 |
| Agent for Service of Process: |
DONNA GARSKE |
| Agent Address: |
734 A ST |
| Agent City, State, Zip: |
SAN RAFAEL CA 94901 |
Welcome
Center for Domestic Peace, home of Marin Abused Women’s Services, mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.
To this end, Center for Domestic Peace operates with three interlocking strategies: 1) Safety and Empowerment, 2) Coordinated Community Response, and 3) Social Transformation.
1. Each year, our core services promote the safety and empowerment of more than 4,000 individuals impacted by domestic violence through: an emergency shelter, 24/7 hotlines, long-term transitional housing, support groups, legal advocacy and services, and a ManKind and WomanKind program for men and women who have been violent.
2. We engage, train, and coordinate professionals from various sectors to promote a coordinated community response to domestic violence within multiple systems – including legal services, law enforcement, criminal justice, health and mental health, and education.
3. We take a leadership role in promoting social transformation through technical assistance, education, prevention (including teens and adults), and policy initiatives.
Since our founding in 1977, we have responded to the needs of more than 163,000 women affected by domestic violence and their children, as well as more than 28,500 men who have been violent.
{{it is even acknowledged on this page that after all these years, in 2010, Marin acknowledges that its #1 violent crime is domestic violence. PERHAPS they ought to try a different approach tha SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION through ENDLESS TRAININGS & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE!?}}
Social Transformation
Center for Domestic Peace takes a leadership role in promoting social transformation through technical assistance, education, and policy initiatives.
Transforming Communities * * * *
Transforming Communities: Technical Assistance, Training, and Resource Center (TC-TAT) is a national project, which, through leadership development and training, builds the capacity of individuals, organizations and communities for effective prevention. Click here to visit TC-TAT’s website.
Education and Prevention
Center for Domestic Peace teaches youth and adults strategies for healthy and equal relating to prevent all forms of violence, including bullying and teen dating abuse.
Public Policy
Center for Domestic Peace provides leadership at the local, state, and national level to help draft policies and pass legislation that increases the effectiveness of domestic violence intervention, prevention, and protection of victim’s rights.
Share your Story. Visit the National Women’s Law Center website and tell your story. Help us advocate for more national support for domestic violence programs and services.
* * *…….I know this website above (transforming communities) — you know how? . . . I was a woman and mother LOOKING FOR ACTUAL HELP! — but help is not available to anyone who won’t sign up for a program. I was dealing with serious issues, and seeking child support enforcement or to regain a restraining order so I could continue work without putting me, my children, or my clients (some of who were groups of children and/or their parents) at risk! !!! So were many women in my position! !!!
It appears that “ManKind” (above) was one of the earlier batterers intervention programs for men (as in, about 3 years after MAWS started, as in 1980):
About ManKind
ManKind, operated by Center for Domestic Peace:
“An Innovative Approach to Stop Domestic Violence and Abuse”
In 1980, Center for Domestic Peace, home of Marin Abused Women’s Services, developed one of the nation’s first batterer education programs to work with men who are violent to their female partners to stop their violence and abuse. The two goals of ManKind are to help men end their immediate violence toward and abuse of their partners, and to engage men in community advocacy to change the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support men’s violence against women and girls. ManKind utilizes a peer education approach to teach men to stop their violence.
(Board includes:
LeeAnn Bartolini, Ph.D.
Professor/Psychologist
Dominican University of California**
Dominican is well-respected Catholic Independent Univ. in the area. It was founded by the Dominican Sisters. Dr. Bartolini also attended Catholic High School.
Pat Davis
Psychotherapist and Interior Architectural Designer
San Fransisco State University
Aida Cecilia Castro Garcia
Intern
Family, Youth & Children’s Services
Johanna Leestma La Fleur
Business Owner, Designer
Loom
Radica Ostojic Portello
Assistant Professor & Chair of International Languages; Director for International Student, Staff and Faculty Experience
Dominican University of California
The batterers’ intervention programs do not, I think, come from a religious organization and must be run by dewey-eyed idealists who simply don’t “get” what fundamental patriarchy as already enforced by peer-influence (of men and women both) through the faith systems — is actually about. I’ll apologize for that “dewey-eyed idealist” comment in a day or so. I do believe that the idea one can overcome religious-based prejudice through a training class is utopian, and note that most people who want a world utopia achieved through indoctrination are themselves possessed of a religious ideal.
Or, in the business of training and just like it…. (?) Seriously — this is where grassroots advocacy treating assault & battery, and DV against women and children (the primary, though not only, targets of it) — as a CRIME sold us (mothers) out.
IT TOOK ME A LITTLE WHILE (TODAY), BUT THANKS TO GOOGLE SEARCH, “THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE” AND I FOUND THE PAGE (RIGHT ON THEIR WEBSITE) VERIFYING THAT “THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION” IS ACTUALLY A SPLITOFF FROM THE TIDES CENTER (ITS INCUBATOR, IF YOU WILL) and the THREE WOMEN WHO RUN IT: ONE WITH CONNECTIONS TO THE OJJDP (grants-related), ANOTHER A MARRIAGE THERAPIST, AND THE LAST ONE, WITH CONNECTION TO THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT JUDICIAL BRANCH AND DCFS “JUVENILE DEPARTMENT” IN THE SAME STATE.
SEE NEXT POST, AND NO WONDER IT’S SO ‘TRAINING-FOCUSED’ AND DOING SO MUCH BUSINESS WITH JUVENILE ETC.
MEANWHILE, CONNECTICUT HAS HAD ITS OWN HORROR STORY (FROM A CERTAIN MOTHERS’ POINT OF VIEW) AS HER SON’S GAL IS NOW A JUDGE IN CONNECTICUT (I guess The Hon. Maureen Murphy) AND IN THE PROCESS OF SERVING AS HER SON’S GAL COVERED UP EXTREME CHILD MOLESTATION OF THIS BOY, SOMEHOW GOT THE MOTHER BILLED $10,000 FOR A SINGLE MONTH OF SUPERVISED VISITATION, AND WORSE.
THIS IS WHY I DON’T APPROVE OF SUCH CENTRALIZED NETWORKS WHOSE BYWORD IS “NATIONAL TRAINING MODEL” AND DOES THIS UNDER NONPROFIT STATUS, WTH GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS. SOMEHOW, IT JUST DON’T SEEM FAIR. . . . . . OR RIGHT….
May Green- Communications Advocate
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