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The Building Caring Families organization is committed to participating
actively in building caring non-violent families through its programs of
education, professional training, and public interest research. The people
who worked together in repeated cycles of developing, conducting, and evaluating Building Caring
Families activities are human service professionals who come from different
backgrounds and have worked together for as long as twenty years. We have had
the opportunity to learn a great deal from each of the thousands of people
who have come to us at critical moments in their lives, as well as from the
members of our own families. Members of the core professional staff worked
closely with members of the panel of consultants, who themselves are
professionals with experience in the clergy, education, community service,
health care, writing, law enforcement, and family law.
All of us share a deep commitment to supporting the impulse that people of
all backgrounds have to build caring and healthy families, free of abuse and
violence. That's why we're doing what we're doing at Building Caring Families.
Here are the members of the Building Caring Families core professional staff,
in alphabetical order:
 Ron R. Clark, D.Min., Director of Clergy Training for Building Caring Families,
is Preaching Minister at Metro Church of Christ in Gresham, Oregon and co-founder
of the East Multnomah County Community Against Domestic Violence (CADV). With the
goal of helping families heal and providing resources for victims and abusers,
CADV is a non-profit community-based organization that brings together government
agencies, local groups concerned with domestic violence, shelters, batterer
intervention workers, area police, and religious volunteers to conduct abuse
awareness and prevention activities. Ron served as president of CADV, and now
directs its clergy training and business leader workshops and its prevention
programs for students. Among his recent publications are "Code of Silence:
Matthew 10 in a Context of Domestic Violence" (Journal of Religion and Abuse
6:1, 2004) and "Associating With the Humiliated," (Society of Biblical Literature
Forum, February 2004: www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=222). Ron's
new book, Setting the Captives Free: A Christian Theology of Domestic Violence,
was published in 2005 by Cascade Books.
 Herman M. Frankel, M.D., Program Director for Building Caring Families, is a
pediatrician, teacher, writer, and researcher. For more than four decades, Dr.
Frankel has worked with people facing such crossroads and challenges in their
family lives as getting ready for marriage; adjusting to changes in work schedule,
household composition, or satisfaction with family relationships; living with
disability, chronic illness, or terminal illness; facing death; confronting
domestic violence; and preventing or dealing with divorce. A national award-winning
writer abut family matters, and recipient of the nation's Outstanding Achievement
Award for Community Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Herman has a
particular professional interest in the ways in which people are affected by
the personal respect, warm attentiveness, and unconditional positive regard
shown by the professionals who serve them. Among Herman's family-oriented
publications is Los Niños y las Familias en Separación o Divorcio: Después de
la Pérdida, la Vida Sigue.His public service experience includes work as chair of the Prevention Committee of the Oregon Governor's Council on Domestic Violence, and work as an active member of the Communities of Color Task Force of the of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Multnomah County Family Violence Coordinating Council, and the Portland Jobs with Justice Healthcare Committee.
 Maria Chavez-Haroldson, past Director of Victim Advocacy Services, Yamhill County DA
In 10 years of victim advocacy, Maria Teresa Chavez-Haroldson has distinguished herself as an outstanding advocate for victims of crime. Having served as Director of Victim Services for the Yamhill County District
Attorney’s Office, with an emphasis on providing services to victims of domestic violence, Ms. Chavez-Haroldson has been recognized for her notable contributions by the Oregon Crime Victims’ Assistance Network, and
the Attorney General for the State of Oregon. A member of the faculty for the State of Oregon Advocacy Academy, Ms. Chavez-Haroldson has also served on multiple advisory boards for the Oregon Department of Justice.
Daniel Scott McKitrick, Ph.D., Director of Research Activities for Building
Caring Families, is Professor and past Director of Clinical Training at the
School of Professional Psychology of Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
For more than twenty years, a major theme in Dan's teaching writing, clinical
work, and research has been the importance of understanding, honoring, and
being sensitive to the specific strengths, values, needs, and interactional
patterns characteristically present in people of different cultures. In 2000,
he co-authored the chapter titled "Considerations for ethnically diverse
clients" in Hersen and Biaggio's Effective Brief Therapy: A Clinician's Guide
(San Diego: Academic Press). Dan is a member of the editorial board of Journal
of Family Violence.
Christina Nicolaidis, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Medicine
and Public Health & Preventive Medicine
at Oregon Health and Science University, and creator and producer of the “Voices of
Survivors” videotape and curriculum for teaching health professionals and others
about working with domestic violence victims and survivors, has conducted and
published an ongoing body of research about intimate partner violence and the
training of physicians and other concerned professionals.
Christina was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. She currently serves as
chair of the Multnomah County Family Violence Coordinating Council.
Jean Coppock Staeheli, co-author (with Jo Robinson) of “Unplug the Christmas
Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season” (Morrow,
1982, 1991), is an experienced developer and facilitator of workshops dealing with
family communication and dynamics, and a nationally published writer of best-selling
books about values-based interpersonal authored by Harville Hendrix, Shirley Glass,
and others.
These people have served as members of the Building Caring Families panel of consultants:
Desiree Allen-Cruz, Domestic Violence Services Coordinator, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
David Eisen, founder and past Director of Clinical Services of Portland Alternative Health Center, and current Executive Director of Quest Center for Integrative Health
Christopher Huffine, Psy.D., Allies in Change Counseling Center, Portland
Kayse Jama, Co-founder, Community Language and Culture Bank, Portland
Jason Jones, Officer, Domestic Violence Reduction Unit, Portland Police Bureau
Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, Imam, Islamic Center of Portland
Judith Kleinstein, Pastoral and Spiritual Care Services, Providence Milwaukie Hospital
Kimberly Martin, Counselor, Chemeketa Community College
Fred Miller, Department of Psychology, Portland Community College
Denise Washington, past Executive Director of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, and past chair of the Oregon Governor’s Council on Domestic Violence
Joseph A. Wolf, Rabbi, Congregation Havurah Shalom, Portland
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