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NOSEND="1"></A> <BR>Dear Friends and
Supporters,<BR><BR>As 2010 draws to a close, we
want to thank you for your untiring support and
efforts in the struggle to bring safety and hope
to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
and their children. It has been an amazing
year. As we write, there are over 65 open
and operating Family Justice Centers around the
world and over 141 Centers currently in the
planning stages. The simple concept of
bringing all the services needed under one roof
has exploded into a national and international
movement in the last decade. Building on the
foundation of the shelter and advocacy movement,
the Family Justice Center movement is now
challenging communities around the world to listen
to survivors, ask them what they need, and then
provide it - putting aside turf, ego, personality
conflicts, agency competition, and the natural
inclination for agencies to work in silos while
referring victims from place to place and agency
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">We
are humbled and honored to be part of the global
human rights struggle to stop violence and abuse
in relationships and families. We have
learned so much from so many and yet we have so
far to go. As we reflect on so many moments
of success and celebration this past year, we are
moved most by thinking about the focus groups we
have conducted this past year with survivors of
sexual assault and domestic violence in
communities around the world. We have heard
such amazing stories of pain, loss, heartbreak,
and frustration. We have seen the joy of
survivors in providing input to the dream to start
a Family Justice Center in their community.
We have heard their challenges in getting help in
the current way that systems and agencies
operate. And above all, we have seen their
courage, resiliency, determination, and longing to
find safety, freedom, and hope. It is the
faces and stories of such amazing women that grip
us the most as we look toward the future in 2011
and beyond. The struggle is not over, the
challenges are great, but we see a path. We
see more possibilities than ever. We have
never been more excited about the future of the
Alliance, the domestic violence and sexual assault
movements, and the opportunities to keep dreaming,
learning, and growing.<BR><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">May
you and those you love have a joyous holiday
season and a blessed new year. We are so
grateful to work with you, stand by you, and dream
with you in the months and years
ahead.<BR><BR></P>
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California Family Justice Initiative (CFJI). With
support from the Blue Shield of CA Foundation, the
CFJI has laid the groundwork for the first
statewide initiative in the United States focused
on developing a network of Family Justice Centers
and similar co-located, multi-agency service
delivery models that are victim-centered, survivor
accountable approaches to meeting the needs of
victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
and their children. The Initiative has
sponsored five new Family Justice Center models in
California, with each community providing day to
day services in a co-located, multi-agency model
that best fits their community and the needs of
their survivors and partner agencies. Three
regional training centers (Alameda County FJC,
Anaheim FJC, and San Diego FJC) have hosted tours,
provided technical assistance, and served as
laboratories for best practice models in key
service delivery areas for Family Justice
Centers.<BR><BR>Of the five founding CFJI sites,
three have held grand openings and the remaining
two sites are in the final planning stages for
opening. The Shasta Family Justice Center
(Redding, CA) opened on September 1, 2010 and has
already served over 300 clients and their
children. On October 14, 2010 the Valley CARES FJC
(Los Angeles, CA) held a beautiful grand opening
ceremony followed by tours of the Center that
highlighted the collaborative work of onsite
advocates, civil legal services, counselors, law
enforcement, child social workers, prosecutors and
forensic nurse examiners. The Stanislaus
Family Justice Center (Modesto, CA) held a grand
opening on October 22, 2010 in conjunction with
their local domestic violence council's annual
conference that was attended by over 350 family
violence professionals. The Sonoma Family
Justice Center (Santa Rosa, CA) held a ground
breaking ceremony on October 8, 2010 to commence
the renovation of a beautiful building that will
house the Center by the end of summer 2011. The
West Contra Costa County Family Justice Center
(Richmond, CA) is moving forward with plans to
"start small and dream big" as they move into an
interim location to provide services while a
permanent location is under renovation. Each of
the founding California Family Justice Initiative
sites has strengthened partnerships in their
communities throughout the Initiative.
Centers have incorporated the Guiding Principles
set forth by the Alliance's National Advisory
Committee. Most importantly, these sites
have done an exemplary job of incorporating
survivors' voices into all aspects of the planning
and operating process for their new
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<DIV>The CFJI is supported by a powerhouse
advisory board which includes: Esta Soler,
Family Violence Prevention Fund; Bess Bendet,
Director, Blue Shield Against Violence; Yvonne
Carrasco, Consultant to the Foundation and
Non-Profit Sector; Lana Culliver, Former Chair of
VOICES San Diego; Lt. Julian Harvey, Anaheim
Police Department; Tara Shabazz, Executive
Director, California Partnership to End Domestic
Violence; Nancy O'Malley, District Attorney,
Alameda County; Lt. Lori Luhnow, Director, San
Diego Family Justice Center; Christine Tran, Blue
Shield Against Violence; Gael Strack, CEO,
National Family Justice Center Alliance; and
Raeanne Passatino, Asst. Director, Alameda County
Family Justice Center.<BR><BR><STRONG><IMG
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2010</IMG></STRONG><BR>Funded by Blue Shield of CA
Foundation, the Family Justice Center Alliance
held the first statewide Family Justice Center
conference in San Diego. The conference was
attended by learning exchange teams from the five
founding CFJI sites and joined by teams from 14
additional communities interested in starting a
Family Justice Center. The training focused
on creating relationships and sharing information
and expertise between affinity groups (survivors,
law enforcement, community partner agencies, and
leadership). The training was a terrific means of
creating and strengthening relationships between
family violence service providers throughout the
state of California including local domestic
violence shelters. As part of the statewide
conference, the Alliance hosted the first ever FJC
Directors Leadership Institute (affectionately
called our "FJC Directors Boot Camp) - a two day
orientation and training for new FJC
Directors. The Boot Camp, praised
enthusiastically by all attendees, will become an
annual service of the Alliance offered to all new
FJC Directors in the United
States.<BR><BR><STRONG>Funds Leveraged Based on
Blue Shield of CA Foundation
Investment</STRONG><BR>As part of the Initiative,
five founding sites applied for and received
funding from the Blue Shield of CA Foundation
re-granted through the Family Justice Center
Alliance. This initial funding has been the
tipping point to help sites leverage additional
funding from other sources. To date, a
combined total of over $6,632,500.00 has been
raised in the form of grants and donations by the
five founding CFJI sites. We are very grateful to
the Blue Shield of CA Foundation for their vision
and financial support of the California Family
Justice Initiative.<BR><BR> To learn more
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2010, the Alliance continued to respond to the
rapidly growing Family Justice Center movement.
The Alliance provided information and assistance
to nearly 60,000 unique online visitors to our
website and Resource Library. We trained
over 10,000 professionals and fielded over 5,000
requests for technical assistance, support, and
planning services. We saw over 20 Family
Justice Centers open in the United States and
across the world. We completed our first
statewide Family Justice Initiative in California
with the opening of three more Centers. We
hosted nearly 500 at our annual International
Family Justice Center Conference in San Antonio,
Texas. We partnered with national domestic
violence organizations, corporate, federal, and
philanthropic funders on innovative new
initiatives and projects, and provided onsite
planning services to ten different communities
seeking to open Centers. We completed our
200th Focus Group with survivors of domestic
violence and sexual assault in the last ten
years. Day in and day out, we responded to
phone calls, emails, and letter inquiries seeking
help with simple and complex issues around serving
victims in a multi-agency, co-located services
model. Our small but mighty team of eleven
full-time staff members was tireless in their
responsiveness to the needs of local service
providers seeking to improve the way they provide
services to families in need. We have forged
powerful partnerships with many national domestic
violence organizations and have served on the
Verizon Foundation's National Advisory Board along
with our partners such as A Call to Men, the
National Network to End Domestic Violence, the
Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, and
many others. We have also helped promote
"Telling Amy's Story" the powerful Penn State
documentary that the Verizon Foundation has
promoted across the United States. Telling
Amy's Story makes the case for the need for
coordinated community response and Family Justice
Center service delivery models better than any
other documentary in recent years. We look
forward to 2011 and to helping more communities
across the world co-locate to provide coordinated,
multi-disciplinary services to victims of family
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international work focused this year in Jordan,
Mexico, and Canada. We opened our first two
Centers in Amman, Jordan working with the King and
Queen of Jordan and the U.S. State Department
(along with Vital Voices Global
Partnership). We hosted our first Mexican
Family Justice Initiative Conference in Monterrey,
Mexico in June and then met with the Mayor of
Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, to develop a vision
to open four Centers in Mexico City. With
the five Centers currently planned by President
Felipe Calderon, we now have nine Centers in the
early planning stages in Mexico with the first
Center under construction in Juarez. In the
fall, we hosted a forum in the Peel Region of
Ontario and got to meet with teams from five of
our Canadian Centers. Each model is
different and unique to its own community but the
principles of the FJC movement are clearly being
applied by dedicated professionals and survivors
in each local community. As we look toward
2011, we anticipate spending a great deal of time
in Mexico and beginning planning for our first
Center in Russia. International visitors are
being invited to join us as well for our 2011
International FJC Conference in San Diego in April
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with the New Orleans FJC</STRONG>
</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>This past year we
have had the opportunity to provide targeted,
technical assistance to several communities around
the nation and worldwide: New Orleans, Louisiana;
Honolulu County, Hawaii; Cuyahoga County, Ohio
(Cleveland); Sweetwater County, Wyoming;
Montgomery, Alabama; Hamilton County, Indiana;
Yolo County, California; Tarrant County, Texas
(Fort Worth); Salt Lake City, Utah; Strafford
County, New Hampshire; and Mexico. In each
community, we have had the pleasure of working
closely with talented, compassionate teams who
share our commitment to spread hope and healing to
victims of domestic violence, sexual assault,
child abuse, and elder abuse. Through Study
Tour and Community Assessment Reports, Focus
Groups, Strategic Planning, and Specialized
Technical Assistance and Training each community
is committed to developing and/or sustaining
efficient and effective Family Justice Centers.
We'd like to thank each of these communities for
allowing us to be part of the planning,
development, and sustainability of their Center.
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<DIV><BR>One of the highlights of 2010 was
visiting the three Centers in New York City -
Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Mayor
Michael Bloomberg and Commissioner Yolanda Jimenez
have provided such tremendous vision and
leadership in NYC and today their Centers are
thriving. Homicides are down and services
are being provided in an integrated and
coordinated way. The Centers are teeming
with life and activities for adult victims and
their children. The Children's Rooms are
vibrant and dynamic and crisis intervention and
long-term self-sufficiency services and being
provided to thousands of survivors and their
children each year. In Brooklyn alone, the
FJC is serving over 1,800 families per month! The
New York City Family Justice Centers serve as
great models for urban communities developing
Family Justice Centers. <BR><BR><A
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<DIV>This past October, the San Diego Family
Justice Center, the founding Center in the FJC
movement, moved to a brand new, permanent
location! Now housed at the "Smart Corner"
location, the Center is co-located with the
Housing Commission and strategically located near
public transportation, the local shelter, and the
San Diego Police Department. Local
dignitaries, donors, survivors and the community
celebrated the opening of the new location with a
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Open House. Special
recognition goes to Chief William Lansdowne and
the San Diego Police Department, San Diego City
Council, the San Diego Housing Commission, and Lt.
Lori Luhnow, the Director of the San Diego FJC for
making the dream of a permanent home for the
Center a reality. <BR><BR>The Center continues to
strive for comprehensive excellence in care.
Nearly twenty community partner agencies currently
co-locate at the Center, to provide coordinated,
multi-disciplinary services to victims of family
violence. The Center is also developing its own
self-sufficiency program, The Women of Wisdom
(WOW). WOW, a pilot program funded by the Wal-Mart
Foundation and the Verizon Foundation, aims to
reduce the rate of recidivism by securing
financial independence, while using a holistic
approach to heal and foster individual growth.
This amazing program has been brought together
through the dedicated work of the San Diego Family
Justice Center and the San Diego branch of Dress
for Success. Check back in 2011 for more updates!
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Story</FONT></SPAN> <BR><BR>I ended up at
the San Diego Family Justice Center after
surviving a long and exhausting six years of
abuse. It started as emotional then verbal
and the last two years became physical. I
first heard about the FJC about three years ago
because of my aunt's own violent
relationship. I visited the Center with her
briefly but did not stay for myself. At the
time I didn't think my relationship was as bad as
hers and I didn't think I needed help getting
out. I made excuses for him and for the
things that would soon turn into physical
abuse. About a year later an incident
happened and I knew I needed to get help. The
abuse was getting worse and unfortunately our son
was witnessing horrible things. I remembered
the San Diego FJC and how it felt so comfortable
and safe, so I knew that's where I needed to
go. I arrived there to get help and
immediately recognized the woman who helped my
aunt a few years back. I needed a restraining
order and she helped me get one along with others
at the Center. However, a combination of me
not feeling as supported there and my abuser
painting another beautiful picture of our future
led me to have the order vacated just a couple
months later. I thought at the time that I was
making a good choice and I was confused. To read
more, click <A
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provided this story to the National Family Justice
Center Alliance to help encourage others to come
forward for help and express appreciation for the
support of the many partner agencies at the Family
Justice Center. She asked that we use her
real name. We love receiving stories like this
daily from Centers across the United
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past year the Legal Network was able to expand the
scope of its services and provide services to more
clients under a generous grant from the Avon
Foundation for Women. This grant allowed the
National Family Justice Center Alliance to
maintain the managing attorney of the Family
Justice Center Legal Network, Alexia Peters, and
add two new positions. Michelle Adams was
brought on as a staff attorney. Michelle
assisted clients with temporary restraining
orders, provided in-court representation and
helped oversee the legal intern program.
Yvonne Coiner was hired as a court support
advocate. Yvonne attended court hearings
with clients and provided client case management
before and after the restraining order hearings.
Michelle and Yvonne became a part of the Legal
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internship opportunities to more than 20 law
students this year. These students provided
2, 355 hours of pro bono service! With the
law students' help, the Legal Network was able to
meet and provide services to over 550
clients. The expanded staff and law students
allowed for the legal network to better collect
evidence such as voicemails, call logs, text
messages, emails and photos of injuries to send to
court with the restraining order
application. A new high risk TRO protocol
was also created in coordination with the San
Diego Police Department. The SDPD created a
form which notifies officers out in the field when
a high risk TRO is obtained by the Legal
Network. This ensures officer safety when
responding to a TRO violation of that
order.<BR><BR>This year the Legal Network was able
to more effectively collaborate with the San Diego
Family Justice Center in providing comprehensive
client services. Together, the Legal Network
and the SDFJC were able to evaluate a client's
risk and lethality level, provide a safety plan
along with domestic violence education and
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Peters, was also recognized this past month
as the San Diego FJC Community Partner of the Year
for her outstanding leadership, enthusiasm, and
passion to help hurting families. Congratulations,
Alexia! We are so honored to have you on our team!
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International Family Justice Center Conference is
now open! The 11th Annual International FJC
Conference, "Dream Big...Change the World" hosted
by the Family Justice Center Alliance, from
April 5-7, 2011 will be hosted in San Diego, CA
and will feature the San Diego Family Justice
Center at its new, permanent location in downtown
San Diego. <BR><BR>This year's conference will
include discussions on issues related to the
handling of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual
assault, elder abuse and stalking cases in the
context of the Family Justice Center model. The
Alliance welcomes law enforcement personnel,
prosecutors, shelter staff, community-based victim
advocates, civil attorneys, judges, counselors,
policy makers, elected officials, board members,
survivors, parole and probation officers, rape
crisis workers, medical personnel, educators, and
all others interested in the future of family
violence prevention. The conference faculty
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conference will focus on leadership,
accountability to survivors, guiding principles
and promising practices in the rapidly evolving
national and international movement toward Family
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co-located, multidisciplinary services for victims
of family violence and their children. The
conference will also include practical, hands-on
training for police officers, prosecutors,
advocates, and medical professionals in the day to
day handling of domestic violence and sexual
assault cases. This year's conference will be in
partnership with the National District Attorneys
Association, National Center for Prosecution of
Child Abuse. Professionals from the child abuse
and domestic violence intervention and prevention
fields will be able to network and cross-train
while attending various shared sessions. To view
conference information and to register, click <A
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at the 2010 FJC Conference</STRONG>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>We would like to thank
the Bexar County FJC leadership team for all of
their hard work and effort this past year. The
Bexar County FJC played an important role in the
planning and implementation of the very successful
2010 FJC International Conference in San Antonio,
Texas. We so appreciate their willingness to help,
great attitudes, and generosity. The
transportation to and from the FJC as well as to
the dinner event, the wonderful FJC tours, and
much more would not have been possible without
them! In addition, the volunteer power was
exemplary! Thank you for helping us make the
Conference so enjoyable for everyone. Your
southern hospitality definitely shined through!
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<P
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Attorney General presented nine national awards to
leaders in the victims' rights movement in
America. Former San Diego Family Justice
Center Director, now CEO of the Family Justice
Center Alliance, Gael Strack received the award
for Innovation in Victim Services for role in
co-founding the San Diego Family Justice
Center. Ms. Strack was also recognized for
leading the effort to develop Family Justice
Centers across the United States and around the
world.<BR><BR>Attorney General Eric H. Holder
recognized nine individuals and one organization
for outstanding work on behalf of crime victims in
an awards ceremony hosted by the Department of
Justice. <BR><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">The
Attorney General's annual victims' service
awards were presented as a prelude to the
nation's observance of National Crime Victims'
Rights Week, April 18- April 24, 2010. The theme
for 2010 - "Crime Victims' Rights: Fairness.
Dignity. Respect." - highlighted the importance of
affording crime victims these rights and
recognized individuals and organizations that have
demonstrated a commitment to this
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reflected this past month on the completion of
over 200 focus groups with survivors over the last
ten years. It has provided powerful insight
into the needs of survivors. Many questions
have been asked about the "lived experience" of
survivors in communities across the United States
and around the world but the core dialogue and
questions have included:<BR>
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<LI>Who did you call for help first?
<LI>What was your experience with those who
tried to help you?
<LI>How many places did you have to go for help?
<LI>What was the scariest place? What was
the place where you got the most help?
<LI>Would you like to be able to go one place
for all your services?
<LI>If you could go one place, what kinds of
services would you like to have there?
<LI>What would you want the place to look
like? Feel like?
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<DIV>The FJCA Team is currently compiling the
results but a few findings already stand
out. First, ALL survivors in over 200 focus
groups support the FJC vision of having all needed
services under one roof. Second, many have
experienced poor treatment at the hands of
professionals in public and private agencies that
are there to help them. Third, most victims
have had to travel 10-15 places to get all the
needed services for themselves and their children
and have been forced to tell their story over and
over again. Fourth, court is generally the
scariest place they go for help. Fifth, they
all want an FJC to feel and look like a home with
a warm, welcoming environment. Finally, the
little things matter - food, children's
activities, kind smiles, respectful attitudes
toward them, and people that really care for them
and listen to them. In 2011, the FJCA will
be publishing the outcomes from our many focus
groups with survivors and challenging every DV
organization in America to be doing them
regularly. Survivors provide a very clear
roadmap for communities seeking to meet their
needs and the FJC model is always central to that
map if the right questions are asked and group
facilitators listen carefully to their
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<DIV>Our work in strangulation started in 1995 as
a result of the tragic deaths of Casondra Stewart
(17) and Tamara Smith (16). Their tragic deaths
motivated us to improve our response to handling
strangulation cases in San Diego. It has
been a long journey but today we know
unequivocally that strangulation is one of the
most lethal forms of domestic violence:
unconsciousness may occur within seconds and death
within minutes. <BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Strangulation is, in fact, one of the
best predictors for the subsequent homicide of
victims of domestic violence. One study
established that "the odds of becoming an
attempted homicide victim increased by about
seven-fold for women who had been strangled by
their partner" (Journal of Emergency Medicine,
2008). Victims may have no visible injuries
whatsoever, yet because of underlying brain damage
due to the lack of oxygen during the strangulation
assault, they may have serious internal injuries
or die days, even weeks later. The lack of
external injuries and the lack of medical training
among domestic violence professionals have led to
the minimization of this type of violence,
exposing the victims to potential serious health
consequences, further violence, and even
death. Not only has strangulation been
overlooked in the medical literature, but many
states still do not adequately address this
violence in their criminal statutes, policies or
responses. Domestic violence perpetrators who use
strangulation to silence their victims not only
commit a felonious assault, but can be charged for
an attempted homicide. <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>We are happy to report that this year
California will seek to pass a felony
strangulation law on the heels of 29 other states
which have already passed similar laws (National
District Attorneys Association; USA Today,
2010). This year, we also rolled out our
third Strangulation Video - <SPAN
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What We Have Learned</SPAN> which is now available
on our website in the <A
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Perspective</SPAN> won first place in the 2010
American Medical Writers Association Book Award
Competition. You must read Chapter 16,
<EM>Strangulation in Intimate Partner
Violence</EM>, included in the book.
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<DIV>To find out more information about
strangulation or to receive training, please visit
our <A
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former interns, has put together a tremendous
information section on strangulation to honor the
memories of Casondra and
Tamara.<BR></DIV></DIV><BR><A
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NOSEND="1"><BR>This year, we have had the pleasure
of hosting 32 interns from the local area as well
as from Germany and Turkey. Our highly-gifted,
highly-motivated, and highly-energized interns are
students at California Western School of Law;
Thomas Jefferson School of Law; San Diego State
University; University of San Diego; University of
California, San Diego; University of California,
Berkeley; and more! Our interns have helped us
with each of our programs: from the FJC Legal
Network, by providing court support, helping
clients fill out Ex-Parte petitions, and
conducting intake to working on the macro-level by
helping plan the annual International FJC
Conference and Statewide California Family
Justice Initiative Conference, research, and
create new products and tools. With over 3,600
hours of donated time the Alliance has saved over
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our passion and commitment to end family
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">In
April 2008, the Family Justice Center Alliance
with the support from the Verizon Foundation
launched the VOICES Network, a National Committee
of survivors and family violence professionals
from various Family Justice Centers across the
country.<BR><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">The
VOICES Network seeks to engage survivors from
Family Justice Centers to: increase public
awareness of domestic violence through personal
stories of survival, empower and encourage other
survivors of domestic violence to access resources
available in their community, network with other
VOICES Chapters, provide training about domestic
violence, provide peer support locally and
nationally, and serve as a standing focus group
for FJC policies and practices. <BR></P>
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VOICES Network is modeled after the VOICES
Committee of the San Diego Family Justice Center
which was established in 2002 to bring together
domestic violence survivors who received services
at the Family Justice Center. <BR></P>
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style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><BR>This
year, the VOICES Chapter of San Diego under the
leadership of Reena Becerra continued to provide
public awareness about the San Diego Family
Justice Center and domestic violence by speaking
at conferences, City Council Meetings, and special
events, such as the Grand Opening of the San Diego
Family Justice Center. They also attended and
hosted vigils to honor the memories of domestic
violence homicide victims. Reena and other VOICES
committee members were regularly interviewed by
local and national media, including a live
TV show on San Diego Insider. The
Alliance is very proud to be working with so many
courageous survivors who share their personal
stories of survival with others. They
inspire our work and give us hope for the
future. <BR></P>
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Operating Board, led by Board Chair Mike Scogin
(California Community Bank), has done a tremendous
job of providing oversight and direction to the
day to day operation of the Alliance. Casey
Gwinn and Gael Strack both serve on the Board and
benefit immensely from strong Board vision and
support. Capt. Robert Martin (Ret.) (Gavin
de Becker & Associates - creators of the <A
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leadership and advice in the development and
operation of the Alliance. The Operating
Board deserves high praise for their high level
thinking and guidance for the rapidly developing
Family Justice Center movement.<BR><BR>
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would also like to welcome Clint Carney (Southwest
Strategies) and Jerrilyn Malana (Littler), to our
Board. Clint and Jerrilyn are long-time supporters
of the FJC Movement and will join our Board in
2011. We look forward to their guidance and
vision! <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A
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to Verizon Foundation, we have assembled an
impressive group of National Advisors for the
Family Justice Center Alliance. The National
Advisory Board includes powerful, national
thinkers and leaders and helps shape the agenda
and focus areas for the Alliance on a national and
international level. The Advisory Board
includes: Michael Mason (Chief of Security,
Verizon Communications); Dr. Dean Hawley (Forensic
Pathologist, Indiana University); Denise Gamache
(Director, Battered Women's Justice Project);
Sarah Buel (Director, Halle Center for Family
Justice, ASU College of Law); Sue Else (President,
National Network to End Domestic Violence); Yvonne
Carrasco (Consultant, Foundations and
Philanthropic Donors); Nancy O'Malley (District
Attorney, Alameda County, California); Kim Wells
(Director, Corporate Alliance to End Partner
Violence); and Dr. Oliver Williams (Executive
Director, Institute on Domestic Violence in the
African American Community. They have
helped us develop four important and critical
strategic directions for the future: leadership
matters, accountability to survivors, guiding
principles and promising practices. This year, we
launched the Leadership Institute for Directors
held in September 2010 in San Diego; developed a
new toolkit on Conducting Focus Groups; conducted
numerous focus groups; unveiled our Guiding
Principles which are being utilized and refined by
Directors across the world (safety-focused,
victim-centered, survivor-driven,
technology-integrated, culturally competent,
community-engaged, transformative, intervention
and prevention services and initiatives);
showcased promising practices at Centers during
our Conference and on webinars; and developed a
new tool to help us identify and evaluate
promising practices at Family Justice Centers. In
January, we will reconvene our National Advisors
and Alliance Board to dream even bigger and set
new goals for 2011. We are so honored to be
dreaming, thinking and working with these leaders,
but most importantly to be able to call them our
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to those that have funded our vision and work. <A
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critical role in funding the FJCA's technology and
innovation focus over the last three years. <A
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such critical funding to domestic violence shelters and
Family Justice Centers across the country. <A
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our first statewide Family Justice Initiative and
provided funding to allow us to re-grant to local
communities for the first time in the history of the
FJCA. The <A
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comprehensive technical assistance provider for
federally funded Family Justice Centers and other
federal grantees seeking to provide services in a
co-located, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary
approach. We are also grateful to so many local
communities who have contracted with us to provide
specialized planning services for the development or
ongoing operation of their Centers including:
Honolulu County, Hawaii; Cuyahoga County, Ohio
(Cleveland); Sweetwater County, Wyoming; Montgomery
County, Maryland; Montgomery, Alabama; Hamilton County,
Indiana; Yolo County, California; Tarrant County (Fort
Worth, Texas); Salt Lake City, UT; Strafford County, New
Hampshire; and many others. We are also grateful
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develop our FJC Legal Network model this past year and
for their national initiative to fund Self-Sufficiency
Coordinators in Family Justice Centers and other
collaborative service delivery Centers across the United
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