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New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence
2010 I.D.E.A.S. Conference
Our Keynote Presenters
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 Keynote: Sarah M. Yanosy, LCSW is the director of the Sanctuary Institute at the Andrus Children's Center in Yonkers, NY. She has been a clinical social worker for over 15 years and has used the Sanctuary Model with her treatment team in that capacity. She has collaborated with Dr. Sandra Bloom and colleagues to develop the curriculum for the Sanctuary Leadership Development Institute training, and has overseen the implementation of the Sanctuary Model for over 100 organizations across the United States and five other countries. Her most recent publications include an article co-authored in the journal "Reclaiming Children and Youth"; a chapter co-authored in Loss, Hurt and Hope, and most recently, an article on applying trauma theory to your stressed organization in the Alliance for Children and Families Magazine. |
 Keynote: Larry Bennett, PhD is a professor, at Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Illinois at Chicago as tenure-track faculty in 1993, he worked for 20 years in various youth counseling, mental health, research and academic settings. Dr. Bennett’s research focuses on the co-occurrence of substance abuse and domestic violence, and on the coordination and evaluation of services designed to interrupt these conditions. Dr. Bennett has published numerous chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles on substance abuse and domestic violence, men who batter, and batterer intervention programs. He is co-author of Evaluation of Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (Sage Press, 2002). Dr. Bennett currently serves as principal investigator of the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and is also affiliated with the UIC Interdisciplinary Research Center on Violence. He is licensed as a clinical social worker, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, and a diplomat of the Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators. He also practices social work in Crystal Lake, Illinois, limiting his portion of the practice to court-ordered child custody evaluation. |
 Keynote: David J H Garvin, MSW, LMSW is the senior director at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, responsible for managing the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression Program (ADA), and serves at the clinical director for a number of programs in both Adult and Family Support Services. Mr. Garvin received his master’s degree in social work from Wayne State University in 1986 and that same year he founded the ADA Program in Toledo, Ohio. In 1987 he began ADA in Ann Arbor, Michigan at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County. Mr. Garvin is a founding member of the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan and served as co-chair for the first three years of the organization’s history. In 2007 he and Jeffrie Cape were asked by the Michigan Department of Corrections to develop programming for men in prison called BRIDGES. Mr. Garvin was named the 2009 National Association of Social Workers – Michigan Social Worker of the Year. He earned the prestigious honor for his work in the areas of domestic violence, mental health and adoption. |
Our Breakout Session Presenters |
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Pat Acosta, BSW has been the lead trainer for Encuentro Latino National Institute on Family Violence since January 2009. Ms. Acosta has a bachelor’s degree in social work from New Mexico State University and has been involved in the domestic violence movement since 1984. As a survivor of domestic violence, Ms. Acosta is passionate about the issues surrounding domestic violence in the Latino communities. Her public speaking and training have included topics such as: Domestic Violence in the Barrio, Community Building, Housing Redevelopment, Teen Dating Violence, Immigration and the Latino DV victim, Children exposed to DV, Civil and Human Rights, Gang Violence and Substance Abuse Issues. Prior to coming to Encuentro Latino, she worked with Jewish Family Services in Los Angeles and for ten years she oversaw both their Emergency and Transitional Domestic Violence Programs. She also served as the bilingual batterer’s intervention instructor for offenders at the Valley Family Center in San Fernando, California. |
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| Joy Bell Tauber is the coordinator of Domestic Violence Court Watch of Sandoval County. Ms. Tauber started her work in the domestic violence field in May 2003 when she was hired by Haven House to do community outreach and education. Haven House, located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, is the domestic violence service provider and emergency shelter for Sandoval County. In her role as community educator Ms. Tauber facilitated domestic violence trainings for community organizations; law enforcement and judicial personnel; welfare-to-work staff; health care workers; Native American pueblos; universities; faith-based organizations and many Haven House volunteers. Ms. Tauber is also a member of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence 40-hour Advocacy Training Team. She has served on the steering committee of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Network and was a member of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault SANE Work Group. Ms. Tauber planned to retire at the end of 2009 but wrote a successful grant for the STOP Violence Against Women Act attracting stimulus money to start a domestic violence court watch and committed to an additional year to establish and coordinate the program. |
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 Vanessa Berens, MA, LMHC is a second year doctoral student at New Mexico State University and is currently studying counseling psychology in the Counseling and Educational Psychology department. Ms. Berens received her bachelors of art in psychology and master’s of art in counseling in the state of Arizona. Currently, she is working on her dissertation to decrease the cycle of domestic violence through empathy training. Ms. Berens has conducted research on improving therapeutic services for the Latino population and has presented her research at five professional conferences. She is a licensed therapist in the state of New Mexico and has provided counseling services to families for the last four years. Ms. Berens is also a trainer at ENCUENTRO LATINO. |
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Kristin Carmichael LMSW, MBA is the shelter manager at Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families in Santa Fe. Ms. Carmichael has worked in domestic violence for nearly a decade and is herself a survivor of child abuse. She has conducted original research on the forms and intensity abuse victims suffer previous to shelter entry and is an expert in safety planning. She has offered support as an advocate, counselor, and in an outreach capacity to more than a thousand domestic violence survivors and has given presentations to many sectors of society including teens, law enforcement, legal and health care professionals, and private businesses. Her goal is to end abuse, and for her trainings to bring about an understanding of domestic violence that honors survivors. |
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 Selena L. Chino is a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe and is also part White Mountain Apache, Laguna and Hopi. Ms. Chino is the Outreach Coordinator for The Nest/HEAL, a domestic violence shelter located in Ruidoso Downs and serves as the liaison between the Mescalero Apache Tribe and The Nest. She is also the only American Indian Outreach Coordinator for the State of New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Chino is a tourism commissioner for the State of New Mexico, appointed by Governor Richardson in 2006 and serves as Secretary and the SW Regional Board Member for AIANTA. Ms. Chino recently joined the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women as a board member and is the First Lady of the Mescalero Apache Tribe. |
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 Jessica Collins, BA has a passion for film, digital storytelling, and working with youth. Ms. Collins joined the Media Literacy Project in 2003 as an AmeriCorps VISTA. As a VISTA, she produced Challenging the Debt Industry, a documentary and media literacy resource on predatory lending. She was also a GED tutor for low-income youth and adults at SER de New Mexico during her VISTA service. Ms. Collins has trained hundreds of educators and community leaders in media literacy and has developed several multimedia resources on a range of media justice issues.
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 Landa C. Harrison, LPC is the acting assistant director of the Sanctuary Institute, a clinical supervisor, and a licensed private practitioner who has been working with traumatized children and their families for over 15 years. She has been in the childcare field as both an educator and direct care staff member since 1991. She is a nationally certified counselor, holds a professional certificate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an elementary and secondary school counselor, she is a professionally certified experiential education trainer, and is an autism consultant and trainer in child and adolescent mental health for mental health agencies in the greater Pittsburgh area.
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 Rosie Hidalgo, JD is the director of public policy at Casa de Esperanza. She has worked in the movement to end domestic violence for the past 18 years. Ms. Hildago worked as an attorney at legal services programs for low-income families in New York City and in Northern Virginia. She then served as the director of programs and later as the director of policy and research for the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence. Ms. Hildago lived in the Dominican Republic for four years until 2006; there she helped establish and coordinate a community-based domestic violence prevention and intervention network and worked as a consultant for the World Bank on social services reforms. Ms. Hidalgo received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and her law degree from New York University School of Law. |
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Julianna Koob, JD, MSW has advocated ending domestic and sexual violence over the past 20 years, beginning as a third-shift advocate at a domestic violence shelter and currently in her role as an attorney working with the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. Although her law and social work degrees are important to her work, Ms. Koob acknowledges the voices of survivors as her primary source for inspiration, strength and education. Ms. Koob’s work is also informed by her prior work as a co-facilitator of a court-ordered domestic violence offender group. |
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Lance McDaniel is a recent graduate of Manzano High School in Albuquerque, where he was president of the school’s GSA for the past two years. Mr. McDaniel has also been a member of PFLAG’s Board of Directors during that time. He was a New Mexico GSA Youth Council Member, the first youth judge for the Albuquerque Pride Pageant and a regular member of UNM’s QSA. Mr. McDaniel was awarded the 2010 Common Bond New Mexico Foundation’s Youth Leadership Award for his work inspiring other youth to get active, involved and to advocate for their rights. |
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Virginia Pérez-Ortega is currently the rural project coordinator with the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence where she coordinates and manages all aspects of the New Mexico Promotora Project. She is responsible for building capacity to effectively prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence and stalking in ways uniquely suited to the physical and socio-cultural environments of the state. Since coming to the United States Ms. Perez-Ortega has been involved in leadership development for adult students in New Mexico Adult Basic Education, immigrants’ victims of domestic violence, and community engagement. She has been a victims’ rights advocate at the New Mexico Victims’ Rights Project and worked for Enlace Comunitario, an organization in Albuquerque working to eliminate domestic violence and advance immigrants rights. |
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 Chris Schueler, MA has created over 100 television programs that have been broadcast throughout the country and around the world. A former teacher, Mr. Schueler focuses on educational and social issues creating children’s programming, cultural and social documentaries, and family series television. His clients have ranged from the United Nations and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society to the CBS Network Foundation and the PBS Television Network. He has received 17 Emmy-Awards for his work as well as the Grand Award for Children’s Programming , NY Festivals; two International Iris Awards: the Award for the Advancement of Learning through Broadcasting, National Education Association; two Service to Children’s Television Awards, National Broadcasters Association; two Excellence in Community Service Awards, CBS Television Network and the Parent’s Choice Award. He has been named “Innovator of the Year” by the National Broadcast Association of Community Affairs.
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 Pam Wiseman, BA, MA is the executive director of the New Mexico Coalition against Domestic Violence. She formerly served as the executive director of a shelter in Illinois and developed the area’s first court watch. She worked with the Illinois Coalition against Domestic Violence to replicate the successful court watch model across the state. Ms. Wiseman also wrote Illinois’ official position paper on achieving accountability in the courts. She is the author of a bestselling book and she and her work have been featured in national magazines, television and radio. |
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 Karen Wyman is the training programs coordinator for the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, including the week-long training for new victim advocates. Prior to her work to end violence against women, Ms. Wyman worked with families on parenting and literacy issues. She is passionate about keeping the voices and experiences of survivors at the center of advocacy work as well as giving advocates the tools they need to do their work while caring well for themselves. |
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Jenna Yañez, JD received her bachelor of arts and JD from Ohio State University. Following law school, she worked with refugees and asylees at a community-based immigration clinic in Ohio. Ms. Yañez was contracted to coordinate the Santa Fe Court Watch Pilot Program, a court watch group dedicated to monitoring domestic violence proceedings in New Mexico's First Judicial District. She is also employed part-time in the Family Advocacy Center at Solace Crisis Treatment Center, formerly Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center.
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 Lisa Young Larance, BA, MSW, LCSW, LMSW, before joining Catholic SocialServices of Washtenaw County (CSS-W), co-facilitated support groups for female survivors of domestic violence and men who batter, at the Jersey Battered Women’s Services (JBWS), Inc. in Morris County, NJ. At JBWS, Ms. Young Larance also co-created, implemented, and managed JBWS’ Vista Program that provides an extended view of serving women who have used force. Since joining CSS-W in 2007, Ms. Young Larance created, implemented and coordinated the Reflectively Embracing Nonviolence through Education for Women Program that contextually addresses the advocacy, support and intervention needs of women who have used force. Ms. Young Larance is a published author, and editorial review board member of the international, interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women.
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