Below is a curriculum vitae that includes highlights and main areas of work of Melissa. For the comprehensive curriculum vitae, click on the link here curriculum_vitae_melissa_scaia_june_2018.pdf
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia
001-218-969-3498
Skype: melissa.scaia1
melissascaia@icloud.com
Professional Experience
January 2017 – present
Director of International Training, Global Rights for Women, Minneapolis, MN. Provide international training to work with partners to promote women’s human rights and achieve systemic reform in government and community responses to violence against women. Provide consultation in the direction of all training to develop and maintain partnerships with women’s NGO’s around the world, training legal professionals and consultation on advocacy strategies. Previous to becoming an employee with Global Rights for Women, provided consultation with partners in Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
January 2010 – present
Domestic Violence Turning Points, Grand Rapids, MN. Provide national training and consultation on working with women who use violence in intimate partner relationships. Provide consultation to local communities in addressing systemic responses to women who use violence.
Highlights:
December 2013 – December 2016
Executive Director, Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, “the Duluth Model”, Duluth, MN. Local co-organizer for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to domestic violence in southern St. Louis County. Managed and directed federal, state, local and private grants. Trained internationally, nationally, and locally on violence against women and “the Duluth Model”. Provided advocacy services to women and children, facilitated batterers group, facilitated women’s group, and provided supervised visits and exchanges. Provided training and education to staff, volunteers, and community partners. Wrote and edited agency brochures, policies, and materials. Managed and supervised agency staff operations. Secured agency funds through grant writing and fundraising. Acted as agency spokesperson at various events and functions.
Highlights:
September 1999 – October 2016
Executive Director, Advocates for Family Peace – Itasca County and northern St. Louis County, MN. Local organizer for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to domestic violence in Itasca County and northern St. Louis County. Managed and directed federal, state, local and private grants. Trained internationally, nationally, and locally on violence against women. Planned and implemented two national model programs: therapeutic supervised visitation and Fathering After Violence Project. Provided advocacy services to women and children, facilitated batterers group, facilitated women’s group, and provided supervised visits and exchanges. Provided training and education to staff, volunteers, and community partners. Wrote and edited agency brochures, policies, and materials. Managed and supervised agency staff operations. Secured agency funds through grant writing and fundraising. Acted as agency spokesperson at various events and functions. Previous position at AFFP: Youth Advocate / Advocacy Manager
Highlights:
Highlighted Keynote Addresses / Trainings / National Advisory Committees
Education
All coursework and research proposal complete towards Doctorate in Public Administration, Hamline University
1999, Master of Arts in Public Administration, Hamline University
1996, Bachelor of Arts in Government, College of St. Benedict
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia
001-218-969-3498
Skype: melissa.scaia1
melissascaia@icloud.com
Professional Experience
January 2017 – present
Director of International Training, Global Rights for Women, Minneapolis, MN. Provide international training to work with partners to promote women’s human rights and achieve systemic reform in government and community responses to violence against women. Provide consultation in the direction of all training to develop and maintain partnerships with women’s NGO’s around the world, training legal professionals and consultation on advocacy strategies. Previous to becoming an employee with Global Rights for Women, provided consultation with partners in Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
January 2010 – present
Domestic Violence Turning Points, Grand Rapids, MN. Provide national training and consultation on working with women who use violence in intimate partner relationships. Provide consultation to local communities in addressing systemic responses to women who use violence.
Highlights:
- October and December 2017. Technical assistance to UN Women Georgia and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. Provide technical assistance in the development of a risk assessment tool and methodology to address domestic violence.
- June 2017. Making Laws Work to End Violence Against Women in Bucharest, Romania for Global Rights for Women, IPU, & Vital Voices. Learning Track trainer on Multi-Sectoral Collaboration on the international, regional, and local level to end violence against women
- June 2017. Lesson’s from Duluth and Beyond: A Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs in London, England for a partnership between Hestia and Metropolitan University London as part of their NO MORE series of events, June 6th, 2017, London, UK.
- June 2017. Organizing and Developing a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs for N8 Policing Research Partnership, Durham University, at Rockliffe Hall, Darlington, UK.
- 2017 National Roundtable Discussion on Working with Offenders of Domestic Violence – Washington, DC. US Department of Justice. Invited to attend national roundtable discussion by the United States Department of Justice to provide input on working with offenders of domestic violence.
- 2011 Turning Points: A Non-Violence Curriculum for Women. Published national curricula to complement “the Duluth Model’s” approach for working with male offenders. Published internationally used curricula and model to work with women offenders of domestic violence.
December 2013 – December 2016
Executive Director, Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, “the Duluth Model”, Duluth, MN. Local co-organizer for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to domestic violence in southern St. Louis County. Managed and directed federal, state, local and private grants. Trained internationally, nationally, and locally on violence against women and “the Duluth Model”. Provided advocacy services to women and children, facilitated batterers group, facilitated women’s group, and provided supervised visits and exchanges. Provided training and education to staff, volunteers, and community partners. Wrote and edited agency brochures, policies, and materials. Managed and supervised agency staff operations. Secured agency funds through grant writing and fundraising. Acted as agency spokesperson at various events and functions.
Highlights:
- 2015 Blueprint for Safety National Demonstration Project. Chosen by the United States Department of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women to provide national leadership on the development of a criminal justice response to domestic violence. Editor of Duluth Blueprint for Safety Policies during final phase of Duluth Blueprint for Safety. Provided assistance and coordination to all project partners in drafting, researching ad developing the endorsed policies. Coordinated focus groups and administrated the grant on behalf of the city of Duluth.
- 2014 World’s Best Policy to Address Violence Against Women and Girls. Executive Director at DAIP during the tenure of DAIP and the city of Duluth being chosen for the Gold Award for the “World’s Best Policy to Address Violence Against Women and Girls” by the World Future Council and UN Women.
September 1999 – October 2016
Executive Director, Advocates for Family Peace – Itasca County and northern St. Louis County, MN. Local organizer for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to domestic violence in Itasca County and northern St. Louis County. Managed and directed federal, state, local and private grants. Trained internationally, nationally, and locally on violence against women. Planned and implemented two national model programs: therapeutic supervised visitation and Fathering After Violence Project. Provided advocacy services to women and children, facilitated batterers group, facilitated women’s group, and provided supervised visits and exchanges. Provided training and education to staff, volunteers, and community partners. Wrote and edited agency brochures, policies, and materials. Managed and supervised agency staff operations. Secured agency funds through grant writing and fundraising. Acted as agency spokesperson at various events and functions. Previous position at AFFP: Youth Advocate / Advocacy Manager
Highlights:
- 2005 Fathering After Violence – Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervised Visitation. Chosen to be a part of national model site for working with abusive fathers. Contributing writer/editor to national publication. Family Violence Prevention Fund publication (Futures Without Violence).
- 2007 Therapeutic Supervised Visitation Program. Chosen to be a part of national model site for working in therapeutic setting with domestic violence offenders and their children. Contributing writer / editor to national public. Family Violence Prevention Fund publication (Futures Without Violence).
Highlighted Keynote Addresses / Trainings / National Advisory Committees
- Plenary speaker at Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Regional Conference in Milwaukee, WI. November 2017.
- Plenary speaker at national conference in Australia, “Ending Domestic & Family Violence”, Sydney, Australia, April 2016, http://www.criterionconferences.com/event/edv/
- New Mexico Coalition and Legislative Committee meeting on batterer’s intervention program models and curricula – August 17, 2015 – Albuquerque, NM
- Selected to serve on a National Consulting Group by Emerge, Inc. on Batterers Intervention Programs as an intervention strategy in a coordinated community response (CCR) – December 2011
- National trainer for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project on the change process for men who batter, supervised visitation and domestic violence and leading groups with women who use violence
- Serve as member of the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence regarding “Victim Autonomy” and “Supervised Visitation”
- Served as member of the “Roundtable Discussion on Custody and Domestic Violence” through the Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice – August 26 – 27, 2008 – Washington, D.C.
- Served as member of the “National Workgroup of the Custody and Domestic Violence Project” for the Battered Women’s Justice Project - June 20-21, 2013 - St Paul, MN
- Served as member of the “Judicial Roundtable on Differentiating Domestic Violence in Family Court” through the Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice – November 6, 2008 – Washington, D.C.
- Served as member of the “Judicial Roundtable on Batterers Intervention Programs” through the Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice – August 5-6, 2009 – Washington, D.C.
- Participant in Minnesota Criminal Justice System Collaborative for Accountability and Safety Advisory Group – February 28, 2011 – St. Paul, MN
- Served as member of “National Child Custody Differentiation Project” at the workgroup meeting on June 20-21, 2013 for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) and the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP)
- National Advisory Committee member for the Joyful Heart Foundation – began July 2013
Education
All coursework and research proposal complete towards Doctorate in Public Administration, Hamline University
1999, Master of Arts in Public Administration, Hamline University
1996, Bachelor of Arts in Government, College of St. Benedict
