Non-Violence Alliance - Working with Individuals, Familes, and Communities to End Abuse in the Home

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David Mandel & Associates LLC

David Mandel and Associates has been hired to provide training and technical assistance to Florida DCF in 3 counties as part of their foster care design efforts. The foster care redesign plan, which is intended to reduce the number of children in care, includes a number of systems changes such as providing child protection investigators with additional supports around substance abuse and domestic violence. David Mandel & Associate LLC will be providing training and technical assistance needed to create domestic violence specialists in each investigation unit. These specialists will handle domestic violence cases and act as resources for their colleagues in their units. Training and technical assistance will also be provided to the community providers who work with families on an on-going basis. To view video, Click here...

Domestic Violence Consultation Initiative Report

CT's child welfare agency has placed full-time domestic violence consultants in its area offices. Read first report...

Consulting Services for Government and Agencies

The Non-Violence Alliance is a national leader in the field of batterer accountability and change. With roots in the domestic violence movement reaching back over twenty years, the Non-Violence Alliance provides expert consultation to private and governmental agencies on intervening effectively with batterers. These services include:

Consulting and Training

Program Development

Clinical Supervision

Technical Assistance

Research

In Connecticut, we offer counseling for mandated and voluntary batterers.

In recent years our work has focused on batterers as fathers, child protection interventions, community prevention efforts, developing train-the-trainer material and identifying batterers in medical settings. The Non-Violence Alliance has produced various curricula, including Dedication (a forty hour training curriculum for batterer intervention facilitators), Approaches and Practices for Working with Batterers (a program manual for working with batterers) and Being Connected (a curriculum for working with fathers).

For more information or inquiries into the services we can provide to you, please contact us at (860) 347-8220 or by email at: davidmandel@endingviolence.com.