Dear Qiyamah A. Rahman & Janey Skinner Let me introduce myself first: My name is Sung Hyun Yun (People call me Eric). I am a Korean and work for the Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) in Georgia as Director of Domestic Violence Prevention Program. When I saw the name of Raksha and Men Stopping Violence in the discussion, I just felt very stimulated and impressed and wanted to give you more information. Actually I have met Dick (from MSV) this afternoon at the Dekalb County Domestic Violence Task Force meeting.
Anyway, there is a TAPESTRI which is a Refugee and Immigrant Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Georgia. TAPESTRI includes Raksha, CPACS (my center), and other minority community centers (especially in the DV area). TAPESTRI's BIP group has a Korean, a Chinese, a Polish, a Mexican, and an African-American facilitator and batters immigrated from various countries. I always see in this group culturally competent process, contents, dynamic, and approaches. In the CPACS I created a BIP group for the Korean-Americans. The batters and I use the Korean language. To evaluate the effectiveness of the BIP group, I utilize pre and post-test toward the perpetrators and their partners. I use five different scales and see how their scores are different at the end of the 24-week program. The point is that I depend on partner's score as well as on perpetrators' score. If you want to know more about the TAPESTRI, please visit www.tapestri.org If you want to know more about the CPACS' BIP group, call me at 770-936-0969 or email me. Thanks Sincerely Eric Yun Center for Pan Asian Community Services,Inc. 3760 Park Ave. Doraville, GA 30340 USA ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
