Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and
Safe Exchange Grant Program

Special Recognition to the following Office on Violence Against Women, United States Department of Justice technical assistant grantees for their continued leadership, support to program grantees of the Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation Grant Program, and for support of this Supervised Visitation Guiding Principles Primer Project:

  • Inspire Action for Social Change
  • Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
  • National Council on Juvenile and Family Court Justice
  • Praxis International, Inc.
  • Vera Institute for Justice

Supervised Visitation Guiding Principles Primer Project Leadership:
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community

  • Umi (Shelia) Hankins - Co-Director and Producer
  • Lauren J. Litton - Lead Consultant/Subject Matter Expert and Co-Director
  • Oliver Williams - Primary Investigator
  • Mao Yang - Operations Coordinator
  • Lorraine Haley - Administrative Assistant

Atomic K Records and Production

  • Karl Demer - Video Producer/editor
  • Keith Langsdorf - Camera operator/editor
  • Benjamin Kryzer - Camera operator/editor
  • Merritt Benton - Field audio engineer
  • Jason "Gus" Wiltze - Camera operator
  • Dave Merfeld - Camera operator
  • Colin McDougall - Production assistant
  • Transcription Services - Word Tech/Atomic K Productions -- Nancy Leaf, Stacie Demer
  • Closed Captions - Atomic K Productions

Filnet, Inc

  • Chris Baltazar - Web Project Manager
  • Scott Prince - Development Lead

Dedicated to Ellen Pence

In memorial to Ellen Pence's leadership and work in the field of supervised visitation and exchange for cases related to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.

Supervised Visitation Guiding Principles Primer Project Participants on the Videos and Subject Matter Experts

  • Hon. Berryl A. Anderson
    Chief Judge
    Magistrate Court
    Dekalb County, GA
  • Juan Carlos Arean
    Director
    National Latin@ Network
  • Chris Baltazar
    President/CEO
    Filnet, Inc.
  • Winiford Barnes
    Former Client
    Women's Resource Center
    Nia's Place
  • Jannette Brickman
    Senior Program Associate
    Vera Institute of Justice
  • David A. Burk
    Supervised Visitation Program Monitor
    Women's Resource Center
    Nia's Place
  • Debi Cain
    Executive Director
    Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence
    Prevention and Treatment Board
  • Karl Demer
    Founder, President and CEO
    Atomic K Records and Productions
  • Michelle Dodge
    Program Specialist
    Office on Violence Against Women
    United States Department of Justice
  • Jean Douglas
    Executive Director
    Women's Resource Center
  • Lakesiya L. Field
    Compliance Officer
    Dekalb County, GA
  • Shaun Floerke
    Judge
    Minnesota Sixth Judicial District
  • Loretta Frederick
    Senior Legal and Policy Advisor
    Battered Women's Justice Center
  • Hon. Ramona A. Gonzalez
    Judge
    La Crosse County Circuit Court
  • Charda Gordon
    Client
    Women's Resource Center
    Nia's Place
  • Hon. Carol Hackett Garagiola
    Judge
    Livingston County Probate Court
  • Umi (Shelia) Hankins
    Co-Executive Director
    Institute on Domestic Violence in the
    African American Community
  • Maren Hansen-Karmer
    Program Manager
    Praxis International, Inc.
  • Bea Hanson
    Acting Director
    Office on Violence Against Women
    United States Department of Justice
  • Laura Harris
    Director
    Domestic Relations Services
    Fairfax County, VA
  • Mary Hopkins
    Deputy Sheriff
    Decator, GA
  • Peter Jaffe
    Academic Director
    Center for Research and Education
  • Amy Johnson
    Executive Director
    Building Healthy Families
  • Ayonna Johnson
    Director of Legal Services
    Women's Resource Center
  • Van Johnson
    Actor and Grip
    Consultant
  • Leslie Landis
    Domestic Violence Court Administrator
    Office of the Chief Judge of Cook County, Illinois
  • Veronica Linder
    Client
    Women's Resource Center
    Nia's Place
  • Lauren Litton
    Founder
    I. S. P. Consulting
  • Tiffany Martinez Potter
    Project Director
    Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence
    Prevention and Treatment Board
  • Jeremy Nevilles-Sorrell
    Co-Director
    Mending the Scared Hoop
  • Joseph Nullet
    Executive Director
    Supervised Visitation Network
  • Tracee L. Parker
    Program Manager
    Sound Mental Health
  • Dale Phillips
    Director
    Human Development Department
    DeKalb County, GA
  • Johnny Rice II, Ph.D
    Senior Program Associate
    Vera Institute of Justice
  • Michele Robinson
    Program Manager
    National Council on Juvenile and
    Family Court Justice
  • Jennifer Rose
    Co-Executive Director
    Inspire Action for Social Change
  • Melissa Petrangelo-Scaia
    Executive Director
    Advocates for Family Peace
  • Renee Schulz-Stangl
    Executive Director
    Personal Development Center, Incorporated
    Center for Family Visitation
  • Maureen Sheeran
    Chief Program Officer
    Family Violence and Domestic Relations
    National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Justice
  • Tina Steinkamp
    Personal Development Center, Incorporated
    Center for Family Visitation
  • Marilyn Stinson
    Program Coordinator
    Women's Resource Center
    Nia's Place
  • Keith Strey
    Finance Director
    City of Marshfield, WI
  • Julie "Tilly" Tilley
    Managing Director, Leadership Team
    Praxis International, Inc.
  • Sujata Warrier
    Director
    New York City Program of the
    New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
  • Oliver J. Williams, Ph. D
    Co-Executive Director & Professor
    Institute on Domestic Violence in the
    African American Community
    Professor
    University of Minnesota

Other Assistants

  • Marcus Amick
    Writer/Consultant
  • Toya Hankins
    Production Consultant
    President/CEO
    Project Producers
  • Van Johnson
    Actor and Grip
    Consultant
  • Johnnie Rice II, Ph. D
    Writer/Consultant
  • Farah Tanis
    Writer/Consultant
  • Janis Wilson
    Scheduler
    Consultant

*Some of the contributors have moved or changed positions. The information above reflects the positions they held during the development of this Supervised Visitation Guiding Principles Primer Project.