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Expert Witness Testimony
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia provides expert witness testimony on "Domestic Violence and Its Effects" in the court. She has done this a number of times in the last 10 years. Her current curriculum vitae can be found be downloaded below.
Contact Melissa for additional information and a summary of testimony.
Contact Melissa for additional information and a summary of testimony.
Melissa's full curriculum vitae can be found here: Resume / Curriculum Vitae for Melissa J. Scaia
Victim recantation study often referred to in expert witness testimony: "Meet me at the hill where we used to park": Interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation by Amy E Bonomi, Rashmi Gangamma, Chris Locke, Heather Ktafiasz, and David Martin
Domestic Violence Training and Consultation
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia provides training, consultation and expert witness services. She will provide training on a number of topics related to domestic violence, including but not limited to:
- Developing and organizing a Coordinated Community Response (CCR)
- Addressing women’s use of violence in a CCR
- Advocacy for victims of domestic violence
- Facilitating men’s behavior change programs
- Facilitating women’s non-violence programs
- Parenting by men who batter
- Supervised visitation in cases of domestic violence
- Development of risk assessments in a CCR
- Enhanced facilitation skills in court ordered groups
- Addressing domestic violence in the family court context
- Domestic violence and the Catholic Church
- Domestic violence expert witness court consultation and testimony
- Keynote speeches on domestic violence
Example of Recent Expertise Work
Recently, Melissa worked on developing a risk assessment method and tool for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country of Georgia (former Soviet Union country) and UN Women. Click here to view a summary report of that work.
Co-Author on National and International Curricula and Resources
Turning Points: A Non-Violence Curriculum for Women
Domestic Violence Turning Points is an educational program that seeks to provide training, technical assistance and material support to programs and practitioners who are providing education, support, advocacy and or therapy for women who are using legal and illegal violence in their intimate relationships. While the primary audience is women using violence against their abusers other women using violence in intimate relationships benefit from these groups. Go to: www.dvturningpoints.com for additional information. Click here for a free preview of Turning Points: A Non-Violence Curriculum for Women.
Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter
Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter is a supplement curriculum for working with men who batter who are fathers that works in tandem with the Duluth Model's Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter curriculum. This curriculum is for batterer intervention program facilitators and parenting skills program coordinators who seek to either start a separate class for fathers or want exercises that address fatherhood to include in standard classes with men who batter. The curriculum is also relevant to parenting skills coordinators who want to gain the skills to screen for fathers who batter and to work with them in a format that addresses their role as a co/parallel parent.
Authors: Melissa Scaia, Laura Connelly and John Downing
Consultants: Ellen Pence, PhD and Sylvia Olney, LMFT
The curriculum cover four themes:
Go to: www.theduluthmodel.org for additional information. Click here for a free preview of Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter.
Authors: Melissa Scaia, Laura Connelly and John Downing
Consultants: Ellen Pence, PhD and Sylvia Olney, LMFT
The curriculum cover four themes:
- Examining the childhood experiences of men who batter
- The impact of battering on children
- Becoming a more nurturing, child-centered father
- Examining how men who batter can be respectful, non-violent and more supportive of their children’s mother and of the mother-child relationship.
Go to: www.theduluthmodel.org for additional information. Click here for a free preview of Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter.
Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls
Melissa Scaia was the primary author of Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls. UN Women, together with Global Rights for Women, developed this written resource, which is designed to provide practical steps, safety measures, and actions that government agencies, civil society and survivor organizations, and United Nations’ entities can take to incorporate survivors' voices into systemic reform efforts, through safe and meaningful consultations.
This guidance is intended to help policymakers develop survivor-centered programming on ending violence against women and girls that meets the needs of diverse groups of women and girls, including those who are at higher risk of experiencing violence and discrimination. It is applicable to programming across the health, justice and policing, and social services sectors, as well as coordination of these sectors, and will help improve the standard and delivery of essential services for women and girls who have experienced violence.
Click on this link to access this written resource guide as a PDF: Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls.
Click here to access the UN Women digital resource library to access this written resource guide and many others.
This guidance is intended to help policymakers develop survivor-centered programming on ending violence against women and girls that meets the needs of diverse groups of women and girls, including those who are at higher risk of experiencing violence and discrimination. It is applicable to programming across the health, justice and policing, and social services sectors, as well as coordination of these sectors, and will help improve the standard and delivery of essential services for women and girls who have experienced violence.
Click on this link to access this written resource guide as a PDF: Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls.
Click here to access the UN Women digital resource library to access this written resource guide and many others.