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Joseph has worked as the HIV coordinator for DHS/DTD for the past 12 years. Joseph also developed and facilitated a Co-Ed Recovery and I.M.P.A.C.T (a skills building workshop) groups to address patient needs.

Joseph has worked with Family Services of Wayne County as a domestic violence facilitator and Individual/Family therapist. Joseph's counseling skills have been significantly broadened and enhanced through his years of working in Detroit area.

Jeffrie K. Cape ACSW, LMSW Joined the ADA Team in May 2001. Jeffrie Cape is the director of Charron Services where she provides individual counseling adults, children and families with a variety of issues. Additionally she designed and facilitates HEAL a BIP and WEAVE (for women arrested for using force) coordinated with community corrections. She also works part time for ADA, facilitating groups, supervising staff and writing curriculum.

Jeffrie received a Masters in Social Science Administration from Case Western Reserve’s School of Applied Social Science in 1984. She started working with specialized foster care programs where she developed an expertise in survivors of child sexual assault and substance abuse. She has worked in several outpatient substance abuse programs. She spent several years working as an EAP where she developed an expertise in Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD). She has provided CISD to a number of corporations. While working for Family Service Inc. she developed the SAVE (Strategies Against Violent Encounters) program for batterer intervention.

She was an early member in the grass roots group, which developed into BISC-MI (Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan) and has served on the board ever since. She served as the chair of BISC-MI from 2001-2002. She served on the Governor’s Task Force for the development of Batterer Intervention Standards. She has been a member of the Wayne County Council Against Family Violence and has served on several committees, including the Fatality Review Team. She was also a recipient of the 2001 Spirit Award. She has also been a member of the Oakland County Council Against Domestic Violence. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Wayne County jail based Batterer Intervention/Substance Abuse program.

Additionally, Jeffrie has provided numerous training’s to corporations, community groups and professionals on domestic violence, substance abuse, parenting, supervision, and other topical issues.

Dudley Capmfield

Jorge Luna Cruz, is a native of Oaxaca, Mexico. He joined ADA team in 2008, and facilitates the Spanish speaking group NoMás with Bobbie Ebsen. He received his bachelor’s degree in Teaching Foreign Languages from Universidad Benito Juarez de Oaxaca.  While studying his bachelor’s Jorge received a one year fellowship in Kalamazoo College in Michigan, in 2001. During this year, Jorge taught Spanish language laboratories at different levels. In the summer of the same year, Jorge participated in a teaching assistant internship in the San Diego Community College District, in California. He was a classroom aide for mildly to moderate mentally disabled Asian adults learning English as a Second Language.

In 2004, Jorge volunteered at a shelter for indigenous girls called Protección a la Joven de Oaxaca A. C. for two years. There he taught a 6 months EFL (English as a Foreign Language) course. With the support of other members of the shelter staff, Jorge also coordinated and carried out socialization activities, like dancing classes, and field trips, as a way of softening the social impact that the girls had from coming from their small communities from different regions of the state into the city of Oaxaca.

Right after college, in 2003, Jorge volunteered as a treasure assistant for the community of Santiago Zoochila, located in the mountains of the Sierra Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico. During this year, Jorge also formed groups of teenagers and started different activities, such as, teaching them how to use computers, reforestation, talks for gender equity, and English tutoring for the ones attending middle school.

After going back to the city of Oaxaca, in 2004, Jorge became the local director of an exchange program that sends students that want to learn Spanish to Oaxaca. During the same year, Jorge became the manager of foreign affairs for a local publishing company, and also translated children books into Spanish. While having these two positions, in 2005, Jorge was nominated to be the president of his neighborhood’s committee, to deal with the wellbeing of the neighborhood in front of the Oaxaca City government and the State government. With this opportunity, Jorge coordinated activities related to community improvement, including security, health, social development, education, and infrastructure.

At the end of 2007, Jorge moved to the US and has been volunteering in the Ypsilanti Senior Center as a Spanish teacher for adults participating in a prevention of Alzheimer program. Also, he has been volunteering at the First United Methodist Church of Ypsilanti as a teacher in the ESL program of the church. He believes that lack of education in any field will put an individual in an enormous disadvantage within society.

Terri Gonzalez MSW, LLMSW is currently an ADA Facilitator at Catholic Social Services at the Packard location and at the Washtenaw County Jail. In 1993 Terri received her first experience with domestic violence at Safe House working  with women being sheltered there; she facilitated a group at the Washtenaw County Jail for incarcerated women who had experienced domestic violence and also worked with women on a one to one basis who were currently or previously victimized by domestic violence.

Terri next worked for a local agency who serviced those making the transition from jail or prison to the community. Terri became certified in Moral Reconation Therapy(MRT) and ran a MRT group along with a group for women at the Washtenaw County Jail. Terri developed and facilated a group for women on probation for assualtive behavior. Upon the closure of this agency Terri gained experience in substance abuse as a therapist doing one on one short term therapy, facilitated an adolescent Intensive Outpatient Group (lOP), and women's group facilitator. While there, Terri was the coordinator and representative to the Mid Michigan Council for women with substance abuse for the agency.

Terri received her MSW in 2004 from Eastern Michigan University where she had internships at Michigan Community Mental Health and a 20 hour a week, 7month internship in a State Facility serving prison inmates with severe mental illness. Here Terri received experience co-facilitating groups for prisoners with co-existing conditions (often mental illness and substance abuse) and Borderline Personality. Terri also counseled prisoners one on one on issues relating to discharge to the community or a prison setting.

Terri later worked at Gratiot Hospital in a partial hospitalization program for those with mental illness. Terri also co- facilitated two batterer intervention groups through Women's Aid in Mid Michigan.

In 2006 Terri moved back to the Ann Arbor area and worked as a Medical Social Worker with a Hospice organization, counseling patients and families with life limiting illness. Terri joined the staff of ADA in late 2007.

Lisa Young Larance, BA, MSW, LCSW, LMSW, was born and raised in western Colorado, taught English in Japan, met the needs of low-literacy pregnant teenagers in Hawaii, and, as a Fulbright Scholar in Bangladesh, investigated the social impact of nongovernmental organization membership on the lives of impoverished rural women.  Lisa’s experiences have inspired - and continue to inform - her work with women who have survived domestic violence, women who have used force in their relationships, and men who batter their intimate partners.

Lisa has been with Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County (CSSW) since 2007 in the ADA, Behavioral Health Services, and RENEW Programs. During Lisa’s time with CSSW she has been a voice for survivor advocacy and offender accountability. Lisa’s work focuses on understanding and addressing the gendered nature of intimate partner violence.

In February 2012, Lisa became the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA) Program Supervisor. In 2007, Lisa founded CSSW’s RENEW (Reflectively Embracing Nonviolence through Education for Women) Program and continues to coordinate RENEW.

RENEW is an advocacy, support, and intervention program for women who have used force in their relationships (www.csswashtenaw.org/renew). That same year Lisa also founded the international W-Catch22 Listserv that provides resource and information sharing opportunities for professionals involved in the lives of women who have used force in their relationships.

In November 2010 Lisa chaired the first national conference on women’s use of force, sponsored by the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan (BISC-MI), titled: “When SHE Hits HIM:  Why Gender and Context Matter” (www.biscmi.org/wshh).

In addition to Lisa’s ADA and RENEW Program responsibilities, Lisa and CSSW colleagues are implementing gender-informed and gender-responsive domestic violence programming for the Michigan Department of Corrections. Lisa is also consulting Harmony House staff, in Hong Kong, China, on the development of their program to serve women who have used force. Lisa frequently provides training on the complexity of understanding and addressing women’s use of force in their intimate heterosexual relationships. Among Lisa’s recent trainings, she addressed the American Judges Association in San Diego, California. In addition to being a national trainer, Lisa is a published author and editorial review board member for the international, interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women.

Before joining CSSW Lisa facilitated support groups for women who have survived intimate partner violence and men who batter at the Jersey Battered Women’s Services (JBWS), Inc. in Morris County, NJ. In 2002 Lisa co created, implemented, and managed JBWS’ Vista Program that provides an extended view of serving women who have resorted to using force in their intimate heterosexual relationships. In 2010 the Jersey Center for Nonviolence published the Vista Curriculum Guide, written by Lisa and JBWS colleagues.  The Vista Curriculum Guide addresses the complex needs of this population (www.jbws.org/publications.html).

Lisa earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and her Masters in Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Lisa is Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and as a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW).

Lisa Young Larance’s Publications Include:

Larance, L.Y., Cape, J.K., and Garvin, D.J.H., (Forthcoming).  Meridians for Incarcerated Women:  An Introduction.  Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County:  Ann Arbor, MI.

Larance, L.Y. and Das Dasgupta, S., guest editors (Forthcoming).  Contemporary issues regarding battered women’s use of nonfatal force in their intimate heterosexual relationships. Violence Against Women: Special Issue.

Larance, L.Y. (2012). Commentary on Wilson, Woods, Emerson and Donenberg; The necessity for practitioner vigilance in assessing the full context of an individual’s life experiences.  Psychology of Violence: Special Issue on Cooccurance Among Forms of Violence, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 208-210.

Larance, L. Y. (Spring 2010).When she hits him: Why the institutional response deserves reconsideration; Reprinted with permission for the RESPECT Programme’s Spring Newsletter, London, England, United Kingdom.

Larance, L. Y. (Spring 2010).  When she hits him:  Why the institutional response deserves reconsideration.  Reprinted with permission for the RESPECT Programme’s Spring Newsletter, London, England, United Kingdom.

Larance, L.Y. (2010).  Addressing battered women’s use of nonlethal force in intimate heterosexual relationships.  Jewish Women International:  Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community.  February 2010 E-Newsletter. www.jwi.org

Larance, L.Y., Hoffman, A., and Shivas, J. (2009).  VISTA Program Curriculum:  An Extended View of Serving Women Who Use Force.  Jersey Center for Nonviolence Publication:  Morristown, NJ.  www.jbws.org/publications.html

Larance, L. Y. (Winter 2007).  When she hits him:  Why the institutional response deserves reconsideration.  Violence Against Women Newsletter:  Prosecuting Attorney’s Association of Michigan.  Volume 5, Issue 4, pp. 11-19.

Larance, L. Y.  (July 2006). Serving Women Who Use Force in Their Intimate Heterosexual Relationships: An Extended View. Violence Against Women Journal. Volume 12, Number 7, 622-640.

Larance, L. Y. and Porter, M. L. (June 2004). Observations from Practice: Support Group Membership as a Process of Social Capital Formation among Female Survivors of Domestic Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Volume 19, Number 6, 676-690.

Larance, L. Y.  and Malik, R. (July 2002). Creating Community in a United States
City: Bangladeshi Women Share Their Immigrant Experiences, research report
(reprint). Anannya: a Bangla monthly journal, Year 14, Number 19.

Larance, L.Y. (January 2001).  Fostering social capital through NGO design:  Grameen Bank membership in Bangladesh. Journal of International Social Work.  Volume 44, Number 1, 7-18.

Contact Information:
Email:  llarance@csswashtenaw.org
Phone:  734.926.4658

Trenita Womack joined the ADA Team in the Fall of 2002. Treaty brings with her a diverse wealth of experience ranging from work with abused and neglected adolescents to a career spanning over 20 years as a professional musician. Treaty has performed with such artists as; Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Barry White, Isley Brothers, Teddy Pendergrass, Bootsy Collins, The Dramatics, Martha Reeves, The Funk Brothers, Frank Beverly Maze, Norma Jean Bell, The GAP Band, George Clinton, Lymon Woodard, Marcus Belgrave, Teddy Harris, Harold McKinnon, Ben Vereen, Avail Ailey Dance Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, Clifford Fears Dance Theater, and the Katherine Dunham Dance Theater.

Treaty performed in the movie “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”. This movie was released in the Fall of 2002 and in February 2003 received two Grammy Awards. Additionally Treaty performed along with the Funk Brothers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in February 2003 for the induction of The Funk Brothers into the Hall of Fame.  Treaty has a strong interest and devotion to creating change through this unique blend of social work and the arts. 2007 marked the release of A Soulful Tale of Two Cities a 2-CD set on which Treaty performed

The photograph to the right was taken on 2-21-03 at the Conference on Healing Through the Arts and the Media, in Detroit Michigan. The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community conducted this conference. Treaty wrote and performed a song entitled “I Gave Her Flowers Today” at the conference.

David J.H. Garvin MSW, LMSW
Chief Operating Officer
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County
ADA Founder and Former ADA Program Director
Click here for copy of Garvin Bio (Adobe pdf. file) 

David J. H. Garvin MSW, LMSW was appointed to Chief Operating Officer of Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County in November 2011. Prior to this and for many years David served as the Senior Director at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County (www.csswashtenaw.org). During this tenure David was responsible for the management of the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression Program (ADA: (www.csswashtenaw.org/ada), served as the Clinical Director for the Behavioral Health Services program, Substance Abuse Treatment Services, Program Manager for the Supervised Parenting & Exchange Program and the Adoption and Pregnancy Programs of Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County.

David received his Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Eastern Michigan University in 1983 and a Masters Degree in Social Work from Wayne State University in 1986. In 1986 he founded the ADA Program in Toledo Ohio. In 1987 he began ADA in Ann Arbor, Michigan at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County. In October 1990 the Eastern Michigan University School of Social Work named David the Distinguished Alumni of the Year. In 1994, David also began serving as an Interim Co-Director for the HAVEN M.E.N.S. Program in Pontiac Michigan and once a permanent Director was hired served as a Program Consultant for an additional year. David has been featured on local, regional, and national television and his work in batterer intervention has been highlighted in newspapers, magazines, and state and national social work publications. David has authored articles in Medical Society Bulletins, Family Law Journals, and Employee Assistance Professional magazines. David is a founding member of the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan (BISC-MI) and served as Co-chair for the first three years of the organization’s history.

David has been a member of the Ann Arbor Domestic Violence Coordinating Board and the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Domestic Violence Advisory Council. David served on the Michigan Judicial Institute PPO CD-I Advisory Council and was the Chair of the Ypsilanti Domestic Violence Coordinating Board. David is a frequently requested speaker throughout the state of Michigan and around the country. David has been an administrative/clinical supervisor and consultant to individuals and programs who have chosen to begin working in the field of batterer intervention. In May 1997 David was appointed by Governor John Engler (Michigan) to Co-Chair the Governor’s Task Force on Batterer Intervention Standards. This project was completed in June 1998. In 1998 David was appointed to the Domestic Violence Benchbook Advisory Committee of the Michigan Judicial Institute. David has served as a faculty member to the Michigan Judicial Institute.
 

In May 1997 David was appointed by Governor John Engler (Michigan) to Co-Chair the Governor’s Task Force on Batterer Intervention Standards. This project involved the creation of a multi-disciplinary task force. The standards were completed in June 1998. David is pictured here with Governor John Engler and former Lt. Governor Connie Binsfield during the press conference introducing the completed State Standards.

In November 2002 David began serving on the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Boards (MDVPTB) Advisory Council for the Grants to Encourage Arrests (GTEA). This was awarded to MDVPTB, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern and Western Districts, Michigan's Attorney General, PAAM, MCADSV, MJI, MSP and MCOLES, in order to convene an advisory task force of federal, state, local and tribal representatives of criminal justice and domestic violence service providers agencies, with the purpose of improving coordination and communication in the response to domestic violence in Michigan.

In 2002, David, along with others from Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County launched an outreach effort to over 400 religious and faith-based communities in Washtenaw County to help them come together in a meaningful way to discuss issues related to non-violence. This project grew into a coordinated effort called the Washtenaw County Faith Based Council Against Violence.

In March of 2003 David was elected to serve as the Chair Elect of the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan with a term beginning March 2004-05. It was during this term that David Chaired the International conference entitled FROM ROOTS TO WINGS: The Future of Batterer Intervention.

In May of 2003 David was asked to serve on the Line of Service Immersion Review by the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board. This project was completed within the month.

In January of 2004 David was asked to serve on the Statewide DELTA Project Advisory Board (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances). Michigan is one of only fourteen states to receive this funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This project is expected to end at the end of 2006.

In April of 2005 David was asked to serve on the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards Research Advisory Committee. Also in April of 2005 David was asked to serve on the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative-Victims Committee Taskforce.

David served as the Program Manager of the Families First of Michigan Program from 2000-2005 for Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County contracts in Jackson, Hillsdale and Branch counties. David is also the Clinical Director of the Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County Behavioral Health Services and Substance Abuse Treatment Program. In addition David serves as the Director of the Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County Adoption and Pregnancy Programs as well as the Supervised Parenting and Exchange Program.

Beginning in 2007 David and Jeffrie Cape were asked by the Michigan Department of Corrections to develop programming for men in  prison called BRIDGES. The philosophy and function of BRIDGES is Men who have been incarcerated for short or long duration are exposed to the myriad issues of domestic violence, male responsibility and accountability. We believe that it is valuable to provide a forum where men are given the opportunity to discuss their experiences of perpetrating domestic violence. It is in this forum, that men, possibly for the first time, will experience not only an education about domestic violence but will benefit from the introspective challenge of discussing their beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about domestic violence. This class meets for 2 hours three times per week to have discussions as outlined in this curriculum. An additional function of the BRIDGES Preparation Program is to promote active and accountable participation in a long-term batterer intervention program once they complete the BRIDGES Preparation Program.
 

In the Fall of 2007 the Governor of Kentucky commissioned David as a Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his work to end domestic violence.

CSSW Program Director David Garvin Named NASW-Michigan "Social Worker of the Year"

Pictured with Executive Director of Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, Larry Voight on April 15, 2009 after the awards ceremony.

excerpt below from the CSSW 50th Anniversary News
CSSW Senior Director David Garvin MSW, LMSW, has been named the 2009 National Association of Social Workers (NASW) -Michigan Social Worker of the Year. He earned the prestigious honor for his work in the areas of domestic violence, mental health and adoption.

Notably, David helped to create and promulgate standards for intervention services to batterers that have made a difference throughout Michigan and beyond," said CSSW President Lawrence Voight. "We are proud of this deserved recognition of David's work and leadership."

Garvin is the program director of the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA), Behavioral Health Services, Substance Abuse Treatment, Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Supervised Parenting and Exchange Programs. A national leader in the field of batterer intervention, he has been employed at CSSW since 1987.

He received the honor April 15 at the NASW-MI Annual Conference in Lansing. With 150,000 members nationally, NASW is the world's largest organization of professional social workers.
 

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David J. H. Garvin BISC-MI Chair and Conference Chair, pictured with Catherine Pierce, Acting Director, Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice and Debi Cain, Executive Director, The Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board at the 14^th Annual BISC-MI conference.
 

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David J. H. Garvin and Lisa Young Larance with Judge Susan B. Carbon, Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, at The New Hampshire governor’s commission on Domestic and sexual violence, sixteenth statewide conference on Domestic and sexual violence and stalking, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 20-21, 2010

David was a participant in the roundtable discussions in 2009-2010 that resulted in the report, Doing the Work and Measuring the Progress from The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) and the National Institute of Justice. Click the picture for the full report.
 

Nearly every man in the room is in jail for domestic violence. Every one has a story; some deny they did anything wrong and are stuck in justifying what they did and why they did it. That is what makes this program so important and so effective -  it peels back the layers of a distorted belief system. The men certainly aren’t coddled, and excuses are left at the door. All attendees must refer to their victims by name, not “she,”  “that woman” (or worse) and take full responsibility for their abuse in an intense, and at times, confrontational manner.

Men involved in Choices leave better prepared to reenter society, after which they are required to continue attending ADA classes at the CSS office, explains Program Coordinator Lori Knott. Interestingly, she adds, “the advantage to the jail program is the men appear to own their behavior quicker than the men in the (outside) ADA program. They tell us, ‘in jail there are fewer distractions, more time to think.’ The men named the group ‘Choices,’ as this gives a framework to eliminating the excuses of being drunk, being angry, or ‘it just happened.’”

As Choices peer facilitator, Gary Bushong is quick to recognize when participants start dismantling, or “unpacking.”  When one group member says he feels he doesn’t need to attend any more and knows what he needs to do, Gary challenges him. “Do you go into a church, and after attending 47 times, say I’m done, I know everything I need to? Of course not…you keep on going.” He continues, “Every time I walk out of one of these groups, I am not the same as when I walked in. Every time.”

There is a National movement towards “Mentoring”. In ADA, Mentoring is the process in which members who are familiar with the program go out of their way to help others understand the it, establish goals and develop the skills to reach them. Utilizing Gary as a Peer Facilitator is the next step in this progression of Mentoring. Gary’s personal experience enables him to command the group’s respect. He speaks their language, and they in turn listen.

"There is no question that they see Gary differently," says ADA Program Director David Garvin. “Gary’s credentials and credibility are his life experiences. They value his expertise and his ability to relate to them.”  Garvin continues, “Not only is this useful for the men whom Gary speaks with and teaches from his personal struggles and experiences, it is beneficial for Gary in his day by day reconstruction of his belief systems, learning more about himself and “giving back”.

The men in Choices are required to attend two sessions, twice a week for six weeks while incarcerated. The program, established nearly three years ago, is just one part of a county-wide demonstration initiative to connect law enforcement, courts, and local agencies in an effort to identify, prosecute and ultimately, reduce domestic violence.

From 2000 to 2005, ADA was one of the partners in the Washtenaw County Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative and received funding for this service from the JODI.

This program was funded Fall of 2006 to Fall 2007  by the Washtenaw County Community Corrections Department. ADA has offered this important community service without direct funding since the Fall of 2007.