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Phyllis B. Frank, Assistant Executive Director, VCS of Rockland
County, Inc., Director, VCS Community Change Project
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Phyllis B. Frank designed the widely
recognized Domestic Classes for Men (formerly the Batterers
Intervention Project) in 1978. She continues to direct it today
as one part of the VCS Community Change Project. She has served
as a consultant to the New York State Division of Probation and
Correctional Alternatives and the Westchester County Department
of Probation. She is presently consultant to the New York State
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the New York State Office
For the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Orange County
Department of Mental Health. In 1993 she implemented a batterers
program for US Military personnel at West Point and in 1994 she
designed a batterers program component of a federally funded
therapeutic community for chemically dependent inmates in a NYS
medium security prison.
Ms. Frank is nationally known in the field of domestic violence.
She has delivered speeches, workshops and trainings for
professionals and lay audiences across the United States. In
1995, she developed a national training Institute on Men Who
Batter & Community Commitment to End Domestic Violence, now
called, "Batterer Programs: Balancing Social Change, Offender
Accountability and Program Implementation". That Institute has
provided training to men and women from more than 25 states and
five countries on the role of “batterer programs” in a
community’s work to end domestic violence.
Ms. Frank is a founding Board Member of the Rockland Family
Shelter, a full service domestic violence and rape crisis
service project for women and their children, established in
Rockland County in 1979. She is a past President of the New York
State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She was an appointed
member of Governor Mario Cuomo's Commission on Domestic Violence
and worked toward that commission's establishment into a state
office. Ms. Frank is a past Co-Chair of the National
Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), a pro-feminist, gay
affirmative, anti-racist men's organization; President of the
Rockland County Chapter of the National Organization for Women
(NOW); and Co-Chair of the NOW NYS Task Force on Pornography.
In 1995, Ms. Frank brought the groundbreaking documentary about
racism, The Color of Fear, to Rockland County for its east coast
premier. Since then, she has brought the nationally recognized
“Undoing Racism” workshop to Rockland County, presented by The
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond – from New Orleans,
Louisiana. In 2000, she was appointed to the Board of Directors
of the Atlanta based Black Church and Domestic Violence
Institute. Her work against oppressions: sexism, racism,
heterosexism, classism, anti-Semitism, ableism, etc. is a
distinguishing feature of all of her endeavors.
Ms. Frank, with Beverly Houghton, Ph.D., has co-authored
Confronting the Batterer: A Guide to Creating the Spouse Abuse
Educational Workshop. She has written policy against couple
counseling in domestic abuse cases. Two articles co-authored
with Gail Golden, Ed.D. were published in Social Work: Journal
of The National Association of Social Workers. They are "Blaming
By Naming: Battered Women and The Epidemic of Co-Dependence" and
"When 50-50 Isn't Fair: The Case Against Couple Counseling In
Domestic Abuse.” Their third article, "Ending the Concept of
Treatment for Battering" is available from the authors. |
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