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NPEIV stands for “National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan.”

NPEIV = IVAT = FVSAI, Inc. at Alliant International University (basically), ℅ Robert Geffner, Ph.D.

If you search IVAT on this blog, you’ll find plenty, because so many “FamilyCourtReformists” (my new term) have been involved over time.

NPEIV claims IVAT (Institute on Violence Abuse and Trauma), a dba of FVSAI (Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute), an IRS Tax-exempt 501©3 corporation legal domicile Texas but “entity address San Diego, California, as its (NPEIV’s) fiscal agent, according to NPEIV.org, if you squint, and know to look at the Donate” pages in hope to find whether a website reflects an  entity or not, and if so, which one.

(per the IRS): Family Violence And Sexual Assault Institute *
EIN: 75-2401334 | San Diego, California

FVSAI stated tax-exempt purpose, as of FY2019 tax return:

Addresses the need for an international training, resources, and professional service center that focuses directly and specifically on the issues of family violence, sexual assault and child maltreatment issues.

Hmm…  Should such a center responsibly identify itself, post audited financial statements, and be held to some standards of honesty and transparency to the public of the country where it operates?

This Post Is:

“NPEIV envisions a world free of all forms of interpersonal violence.” Hmm… Let’s Look Into That… [March 3, 2022].. (short-link ends “-dNd)

I took it from:

‘High-Conflict’ Court-Ordered Parenting Classes and Certified High-Conflict Divorce Coaching USA is Now on Steroids. Yet USA FamilyCourtReform* Collaborators Using This Jargon still expect to be taken seriously (and are, for example, by at least one UK/Europe-focused journal). [Begun Feb. 16, 2022, Publ. March 1]” (short-link ends “-dEA” and remember that’s case-sensitive after the “wp.me/) 

This post:

• Is about 3,000 words long only.  [And one day later, now 5,500, most additions at the bottom]
• Was put together within two days and is informal.
• Is being posted as is to meet a deadline related to the closing of a coffee shop where I often write, and for my own conscience — not yours!
• Ends abruptly, with a link back to its originating post at the bottom.

I don’t even care that it could do more.  I’m putting out these points of reference, and want them out now.  If you want a more polished version, start using that “Donate” button and find some others who might do likewise.  Otherwise, don’t complain!

Before moving this material, I left a narrative summary (of the history of Alliant International University, mostly) there as a footprint.  That  narrative puts a timeline to the quotes here; together both versions should be useful.

It belongs there, but one post can only hold so much.

This is a (repeat, somewhat updated) introduction — or reminder — to who you’re dealing with and hearing from when someone references a journal run by the same guy who set up shop at (what is now) Alliant International University — and what that is, too.

This situation and many of its players has been on my radar for about a decade (if you count some time in 2012 to 2022 as it starts here…  I have posted often on parts of it, and re-published, reminded people as I can.  I have to ask — and often ask myself– what kind of people would participate?

And, given who has been participating and citing to such rhetoric (it’s propaganda, basically), why should we give them the time of day, or free (or even paid-for) help promoting it?

Does no one recognize what a Ponzi or pyramid scheme, or extreme layers of avoidance look like?

Or how religious evangelism works and looks, when it comes to propagation and “to hell with the financial consequences” on others, globally? I’m not saying that NPEIV, IVAT, FVSAI, or even the leadership of Alliant now, are religious.

But I do notice that its own history has taken both money and bought/sold campuses with religious resources (as to Alliant) and it’s churning out psychologists among whom are plenty who are in the business of marriage/family therapy for evangelistic reasons and using similar tactics.  Let’s not forget that SoCal (San Diego being pretty far south on that map) is also famous for Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, and from those roots, Casey Gwinn/Gael Strack’s multiple persona, ever-changing entity name (and fact, some similarity in its name), ALSO San Diego-based ‘Alliance for Hope International”

And this tendency isn’t limited to Christian (fundamental or conservative Protestant) world visions only; there’s also a prospering and prosperous “new-age” segment too, flocking to the family justice, family courts, and protect vulnerable children themes — and fields of practice.

However THIS post is about NPEIV et al.  It’s for me a review; I was going through the family court systems and, simply paying attention, already did some background look-ups on the acronyms, personalities, and the history of this university at the time.  It’s good to be aware of!

Let’s not forget “NPEIV” when we read from this source:

[TandFonline.com Journal of Child Custody, or as it’s now called “Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody, and Child Development”]

If you read my March 1, 2022, post in its first, or evolving version, this section relates to the family courts on many levels.

The acronym “NPEIV” is in circulation as in IVAT as is FVSAI (less so, as that actually refers to an identifiable nonprofit which might induce the reader to find and read its tax returns and, seeing how small and how few people are involved, compared to the global claims, visions and especially board of directors with major ties to “family court reformists” with their own global vision we’re supposed to continue telling our own legislators to keep funding (through VAWA re-authorization with “tweaks,” in 2022).. start asking more questions of those who subscribe to this set-up by continuing to reference it, each other, and their articles in a journal published (publication ownership home is the UK, not the USA) with an editor-in-chief who would set up home in such a place…

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