Action Team 2

Training & Mentoring

about us

Action Team 2 is dedicated to using educational initiatives to end violence and addresses training and mentoring needs in various professions, including the development of curriculum and other types of educational initiatives. This team started around developing undergraduate curriculums and has expanded into graduate curriculums as well. In addition, many other types of educational initiatives have been started. Past projects include promoting Child Advocacy Studies, creating Elder Abuse Curriculum, enhancing a mentoring training model for NPEIV and developing regional violence education conferences. Recently, they partnered with other organizations to promote learning opportunities related to interpersonal violence, expanding Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) curriculum into other disciplines. In collaboration with Action Teams 1, 3, and 4, Action Team 2 executed 11 webinars and supported the development of the NPEIV Violence Prevention Certificate. The team also works to spread awareness and support the National Plan to End Interpersonal Violence.

Current Projects

  • Creating and developing webinars by coordinating Awareness months and authors of the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

  • Identifying and connecting with new possible collaborations, including a non-academic audience (i.e. bartenders, hairstylists, mandated reporters)

  • Partnered with other organizations to promote learning opportunities related to interpersonal violence, expanding Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) curriculum into other disciplines

  • Executed 11 webinars in partnership with Action Teams 1, 3 and 4

  • Supported the development of the NPEIV Violence Prevention Certificate

FUTURE PROJECTS

  • Religious/Spiritual Initiatives

  • Mentoring language to ease engagement

 
 

nada yorke: Co-chair

Nada Yorke, LCSW, is co-owner of Yorke Consulting and Correctional Counseling for Change, which specializes in helping organizations optimize their potential. She has over thirty-five years of experience in the criminal justice system.

 
 
 
 

melinda oakley: Co-chair

Melinda Oakley works for the County of Los Angeles, Probation Department as the Victim’s Assistance Liaison. For nearly 20 years, she has been responsible for the community supervision of both adults and youth. She is a Domestic Violence/ Intimate partner Violence subject matter expert and trains departmental staff. She is also a certified Peer Support Representative.