Season Two: Carey talks with Cherri Allison, Esq., executive director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center. Ms. Allison deconstructs traditional, transactional business models of social services in favor of creating a relational, listening environment where survivors discover for themselves what they need to thrive. They discuss how she imagined the word of a family justice center before these centers existed and the seeds of wisdom she wants to share with younger leaders.

Alameda County Family Justice Center

Change Agent is back for a second season of conversations with innovators and creative leaders in the field of Family Violence Prevention and Advocacy. This Season includes six interviews with social entrepreneurs from various backgrounds in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Next week begins the season with Cherri Allison, Esq., Executive Director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center. Ms. Allison practiced family law where she imagined the work of a Family Justice Center before these centers existed. We discuss the “seeds” of wisdom she wants to share with younger leaders and what white folks call “intrinsic task motivation.”

Those who missed season one can listen here or on Stitcher or iTunes.

Thank you for listening to the first season of Change Agent! Listen in about how to stay connected while the second season is under construction.

Season One: Carey talks with Tasneem Ismailji, MD, MPH, who after many years as a practicing pediatrician, co-founded the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA), an organization promoting health education and research for issues related to interpersonal violence. Dr. Ismailji discusses her “mutation” that allows her to think creatively, even rebelliously, and which led her on an adventurous, ever evolving career.

http://www.avahealth.org/

Season One – Carey talks with Gloria Sandoval, former Chief Executive Officer of STAND! For Families Free of Violence, an agency for Domestic Violence support and services in Contra Costa County, California. They discuss community partnerships, hope for those experiencing abuse and how violence in the home can evolve into violence in the larger community.

http://www.standffov.org/

Season One: Carey talks with Hillary Larkin, a Physician’s Assistant (PA) and leader of the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) at Highland Hospital in Oakland California. They discuss making and taking opportunities in one’s career, the evolution of medical Sexual Assault care in Alameda county, and why Hillary hates the term “rape kit”.

Season One – Carey interviews Concord California’s police Chief Guy Swanger about the formation of the East Contra Costa County Family Justice Center. They also explore the profound shifts that have taken place in the law enforcement approach to Domestic Violence over the last few decades.

http://www.cocofamilyjustice.org/

https://www.sandiego.gov/sandiegofamilyjusticecenter

http://www.familyjusticecenter.org/