Date: June 7-9, 2012

Time: 8:30-5:30PM (Daily)

Location: Pacifica, CA - Exact location TBA

Training satisfies the required training mandated by the state for batterer’s intervention programs. Training also satisfies the required 16-hour continuing education units by the state for batterers' intervention programs. AFWC is state approved approved by CAADAC, (Provider 4S-02-491-0508).  Training will take place in San Francisco, CA.

Regular Registration Fee $275 - register and pay in full by June 2, 2012. Late Registration Fee - $325 paid after June 2, 2012. The 40-hour core training will consist of full five 8-hour days.

For 16-hour continuing education units - $250.00. For one day training - $125.00. 

Payments are accepted by cash, money order, check and we also accept all approved major credit and debit cards. For refunds, participants must cancel at least 30 days prior to training date. Refunds are 75% of original amount. 

CAADAC CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEU’S) The fee is $25 for CAADAC continuing education units and is payable to AFWC. AFWC is state approved by CAADAC, Provider #4S-02-491-0508.  

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded the last day of training for those who paid in advance.

Special Needs: If you have special needs due to a physical disability, please notify us at least one week in advance of the training date so that we may accommodate you. 

Contact us should you have any questions regarding the training and/or registration.

(Trainer's may vary by each training)

Founder/creator of AFWC, Julia Carmen has been working in the field of domestic violence for over 20 years, providing services and programs to families. She was one of the first women in Northern California to work in the batterers’ intervention field. “The promotion of harmony and peace is what we are all about. We teach that wellness comes from within and when that wellness is uncovered we come ‘home’ to ourselves.” Ms. Carmen’s trainings on domestic harmony, as she prefers to call it, are a new approach to working with families affected by domestic violence and anger. Ms. Carmen invites training participants to see the innate wisdom within themselves and within their clients. A national speaker, she has taught educators from all over the world.

Julia has worked in the Native TANF Program in the following areas: promoting youth and cultural wellness, helping fathers connect with their children, and strengthening families. She has also worked with Two Feathers (California), Oneida Nation (Wisconsin), and through Crihb (California Rural Indian Health Board) - Julia has trained at additional sites in California. As such, among the training programs she has offered are: “Warriors of the Light,” “How Families and Communities can Heal from the Cycle of Abuse and Violence,” and “Native American Youth Substance Abuse Prevention.” In the Native American community she has also been a trainer at women’s conferences. She resides in Hawaii and within the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the mother of five and the grandmother of twenty-two.

Anthony is the Executive Director/CEO, and founder, of The Rock Recovery & Wellness Center in Redding, CA. He has a Master of Arts degree in Human Behavior; he also has a Bachelor in Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Associates degrees in Communication Arts and University Studies. He is currently working on a Master’s degree in Addiction Counseling. Anthony is a level two state certified addictions specialist (C.A.S. II), a certified Batterers’ Interventionist, and is certified in the Fatherhood/Motherhood is Sacred program. Anthony has worked in the field for ten years during which he has served the Native American community with the Karuk Tribe.

While at the Karuk Tribe he worked in the Substance Abuse Department as a Substance Abuse Counselor where he developed and implemented a drug and alcohol outpatient program as well as a batterers’ intervention program. Then he became the Family Services Specialist/Site Supervisor for the Karuk Tribal TANF Program and helped get that program up and running. Prior to that Anthony worked in the residential treatment setting as a Program Manager/Counseling Coordinator. Anthony is currently the president of the Board of Directors for Antolino Family Wellness Centers, and is part of the core leadership for Celebrate Recovery at the New Life Church of God in Redding, CA.

He has overcome 32 years of addictive behaviors and currently has more than ten years of clean time. He is a survivor of domestic violence, as well as a former perpetrator. He is also a survivor of sexual abuse. Anthony has a servant’s heart. He rides with the Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA) where he is a member of the prayer team and involved with ministry in many areas. Anthony is the father of one son and two daughters and has one granddaughter and one grandson. Anthony believes that no obstacle is too great to overcome and that life is to be lived abundantly.

Jessica Hollander is the Prevention Education Coordinator at Rape Trauma Services: A Center for Healing and Violence Prevention. As an educator and certified Sexual Assault Counselor, Jessica has been working with Rape Trauma Services since November 2008. Jessica has worked in the field of sexual assault and domestic violence prevention for the past ten years in Boston, Washington D.C, and the Bay Area. Jessica graduated from American University with a Bachelor’s in Women and Gender Studies with a concentration in sexual assault and domestic violence prevention. As a teen Ms. Hollander participated in several peer education initiatives to raise awareness about teen dating violence including the Teen Action Campaign, See It and Stop It, a multi-media public education campaign sponsored by The Family Violence Prevention Fund. As a survivor, activist, and educator Ms. Hollander has spoken to hundreds of young adults and professionals with the goal of initiating dialogue about the critical issue of relationship violence and sexual assault.

Mary Dodd is currently working at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, in Reno, Nevada, as the Womens Circle Project Coordinator.  She previously worked as the Victim Services Program Coordinator, on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, for 12 years.  During her employment with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, she developed the Victim Services Program and emergency womens shelter, “Our Mother’s House-Tamme Pea Nobe.”  For   the past 20 years, Ms. Dodd’s has provided presentations to numerous victim impact panels for youth and adult detention facilities.  As a child-victim of domestic violence, Mary has spoken passionately about the death of her mother, Elaine J. Garcia, and how family violence has impacted her own family. Ms. Dodd is a mother of three daughters, grandmother of two grandsons, one granddaughter and one additional grandchild on the way.  She received her A.A. in Criminal Justice in 1998.

Founder and Executive Director of C.R.A.D.L.B.E.B.O.A.R.D. Society, Inc.(Cultural Responsibility Alliance Dedicated to Lifestyle Education By Ongoing Awareness to Restore Dignity). Myrna R. Rivera has been in service to the Indian people for 25 years. Myrna worked for the Intertribal Council of California as victims advocate serving the Native American population in Fresno and Madera Counties from 1999 to 2003. Myna is the granddaughter of Henry Moses Rupert, who was an Elder and Shaman for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. She believes that the concept of the cradleboard comes to her through her grandfathers healing medicine.