What Do Professionals Need to Know?
Model Domestic Violence Policy for Counties
Acknowledgements
TASK FORCE MEMBERS
| Sally Berry Lisa Bowen
Patricia Fitzsimmons, CASAC, NCAC II
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Dan Johnston Joanna Landau, R.N., Ph.D.
Kathi Montesano-Ostrander
Beth Silverman-Yam
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OPDV STAFF PROJECT COORDINATOR AND PRINCIPAL WRITER
Theresa M. Zubretsky, Director of Human Services Policy & Planning
PROJECT TEAM
Alison Clifford, Director of Health Care Project
Lisa A. Frisch, Director of Public Policy and Criminal Justice Programs
Colleen McGrath, Former Director of Criminal Justice Programs
Lizette C. Rivera, Director of Batterers Intervention Project
Sujata Warrier, Director New York City Program
Gwen Wright, Director of Community Coordination
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special appreciation goes to Sally Berry, Vera House, Onondaga County; Danielle
Jose, Domestic Violence Prevention Project, Clinton County; Phyllis Korn, Alternatives
for Battered Women, Monroe County; Eileen Maddock, Orange County Safe Homes
Project, Inc., Orange County; Sujata Warrier, NYSOPDV, New York City; and Kevin
Williams, The Net Domestic Abuse Project, Steuben County for their efforts
in coordinating the local community forums; and to the approximately one hundred
fifty participants of the six community forums who provided perceptive and
constructive comments on the model policy draft.Thanks to the following individuals
and agencies that provided extensive and insightful comment on the model policy
draft: Linda Bean, Alternatives for Battered Women; Robin Bramwell, Governor’s
Office of Employee Relations; Maureen Casey, former Counsel to the NYS Division
of Criminal Justice Services; Karen Commeret, Putnam/Northern Westchester Women’s
Resource Center; Phyllis B. Frank, Volunteer Counseling Services; Ronald Gaudia,
Westchester Jewish Community Services; William M. Hall, Acting Dean of Alfred
University; Violet Hawkins, Victim Services Agency; Carolyn Hedlund, Mental
Health Association of Westchester; Patricia Henry, New York City Mayor’s
Office; Lee Joly, formerly of the Niagara County Task Force on Domestic Violence;
Geynell Lawrence, Urban Center for Change; Kate Liebman, formerly with the
New York City Mayor’s Office of Health Services; Maryellen Martirano,
Westchester County District Attorney’s Office; Carol Most, Women’s
Bar for the State of New York; Michael Nalbone, Putnam County Sheriff’s
Department; Jeanine Pirro, Westchester County District Attorney; Evelyn Roth,
FEGS Long Island Division; Helen Scholfield, Nassau County Coalition Against
Domestic Violence; Cass Shaw, Stop F.E.A.R. Coalition, Rockland County; Audrey
Stone, Pace University Battered Women’s Justice Center; Sue Tomkins, SUNY
Buffalo School of Law, Family Violence Clinic; and Charlotte Watson, My Sister’s
Place.Thanks also to the following members of the OPDV Advisory Council: Martin
Cirincione, Linda Valenti and David Singer, Division of Probation and Correctional
Alternatives; Mary O. Donahue, J.S.C.; Lisa Gordon, NYS Office of Children
and Family Services; Christina Hernandez and Marcia Plato, Crime Victims Board;
Stephen Hogan, New York State Police; Andrew Johnson, NYS Division for Youth;
the Honorable Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, the Honorable Anthony
V. Cardona, and Janet Fink, Esq., Unified Court System; Lorraine Madry, Urban
Women’s Retreat; Elizabeth Roetter, NYS Division of Housing and Community
Renewal; Katherine Webb, NYS Department of Correctional Services; NYS Division
for Women; and to the hard-working members of OPDV’s State as an Employer
Policy Workgroup including Jeanine Dominique, NYS Department of Labor; Gail
Maloy and Gary Ruberti, United University Professions; Mary Masterson, Civil
Service Employees Association; Lisa Newmark, Public Employees Federation; and
Barbara Zaron, Office of Management Confidential Employees.
