2011 ICADV Board of Directors
Steve Butera
Client Services Director, St. Jude House
sbutera@franciscancommunities.com
Steve Butera holds a Master of Science degree in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana and a BA degree in psychology from Purdue University West Lafayette. Mr. Butera is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Indiana, a National Certified Counselor, and a Board Certified Professional Counselor through the APA. He has been employed as the Client Services Director at St. Jude House for 10 years, where he supervises all client programs, develops new programming and policies and procedures, supervises staff, oversees accreditation processes, and participates in community awareness, fund development, and grant management. Mr. Butera is also involved in the Northwest Indiana Suicide Prevention Council, Lake County Domestic Violence and Sexual Task Force, Continuum of Care, The Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (serving as membership chairperson and peer review captain), and the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Previously Mr. Butera was Supervisor of the Partial Hospitalization Program at Tri-City Mental Health Center, now known as Regional. He was employed at Regional for 11 years and has been involved in private practice work.
Amy Carpenter
Employee Benefits Consultant, Apex Benefits Group, Inc.
acarpenter@apexbg.com
Amy has more than 25 years of hands on experience in the employee benefits industry. During her benefits career, she has worked internally in the area of administration and account management for group life and disability programs and more recently, in the area of sales and marketing. Her expertise and enjoyment lies in the medical arena and includes traditional medical programs, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements and Health Savings Accounts. She specializes in Consumer Driven Health plans for both fully-insured and self-funded clients. Amy has been instrumental in teaching Consumer Driven Health plans to co-workers and clients as well as at conventions and different society meetings.
Amy is a board member of the ICADV and volunteers at theJulianCenter. In her non-work hours, Amy enjoys spending time with her teen-agers, gardening and riding her motorcycle.
Dottie L. Davis, BS
Fort Wayne Police Department
Dottie625@comcast.net
Dottie is a twenty-nine year veteran of the Fort Wayne Police Department where she serves as the Deputy Chief of the Southwest Division of patrol. During her career she has received numerous commendations, including two Meritorious Service Citations. Dottie graduated from Purdue University with honors receiving a Bachelor of Science, and certifications in Substance Abuse Counseling and Social Service. In March 2003 she graduated from the National FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. Since 1992, she has been a family violence trainer, and has trained thousands of law enforcement officers, prosecutors, advocates, and judges throughout the nation. The Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) named Dottie the 1998 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year, and in 2004 she was the recipient of the Harlene Bartlett award from the ICADV for her continued commitment to victims of family violence. She has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the country, including the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) Conference on Domestic Violence from 1999 through 2010. In 2006 she received the Stephen L. VonRiesen Lecturer of Merit Award from the NDAA. Davis has also lectured in Canada for the International Association of Women Police, The Ontario Provincial Police, and VCARS, a victim advocates group. In April 2000 she became involved in implementing the Crisis Intervention Team with the Fort Wayne Police Department to better serve individuals in a mental health crisis with dignity and respect. Due to this work, she has received several awards from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She is the 2007 recipient of the ATHENA Award given by the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Davis serves as a Board member for several entities including the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Mental Health America in Allen County, and the Women’s Bureau. She is also an advisory board member for two universities. In 2000 she formed Davis Corporate Training, Inc., a private consulting agency.
Rus Ervin Funk, MSW
Executive Director of MensWork
rus@rusfunk.com
Rus is a consultant specializing in violence prevention, cultural competence and anti-oppression. He is a sought after trainer and speaker throughout the US, Canada and South America. Some of his current projects include working with the state of Indiana, the California Department of Health and “Transforming Communities,” the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, and the city of Mexico.
Rus is also the co-founder and Executive Director of MensWork: eliminating violence against women, Inc., a Louisville-based organization that focuses on educating, engaging, and mobilizing men to address, respond to, and prevent all forms of sexual and domestic violence. Rus also serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, is Secretary of the Board of the National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence, and serves on the Global Steering Committee of Mobilizing Men for Violence Prevention.
Rus is also an author including:
“Be realistic, Demand the Impossible: Taking Action against Pornography” (in Pornography: Driving the Demand for International Sex Trafficking, to be published, 2007 by Demand Dynamics),
Reaching Men: Strategies for Preventing Sexist Attitudes, Behaviors and Violence (2006, Jist Publications).
What Pornography says about Me(n): How I became an Anti-Pornography Activist in Not for Sale: Feminists Speak Out Against Pornography and Prostitution” Ed. By Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark (2004).
Gay male pornography’s “Actors”: When “Fantasy” isn’t” (with Christopher Kendall) in Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress (Ed. By Melissa Farley) (2003, Haworth Press.)
“A Coordinated Collaborative Approach to Address and Combat Teen Dating Abuse” (in James, Partners in Change” Working with Men to End Gender-Based Violence, 2002, INSTRAW).
Rus is the 2006 recipient of the Helene Bartlett Award from the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence for his outstanding services to victims of domestic violence, the 2005 PreVent Award of Excellence for his leadership in developing violence prevention efforts, and the 2000 Frederick Douglass Award from Men Can Stop Rape, Inc.
Katherine A. Harmon
Mallor Grodner LLP
kharmon@lawmg.net
Kathy is a partner at the law firm of Mallor Grodner in Indianapolis who practices in the area of matrimonial law. She became interested in the area of domestic violence while volunteering in college at a psychology lab that was performing a study on domestic violence for the National Institute of Mental Health. After graduating from law school in 2001, she became involved with the Protective Order Pro Bono project as a volunteer attorney representing individuals who were leaving situations where domestic violence had occurred and were seeking to obtain protective orders to protect them from further acts of violence. She became a board member in 2010 and is the chair of our Legal Resource Committee.
Yassir Karam, JD, CPA/ABV, ASA
Clifton Gunderson, LLP
Yassir.Karam@cliftoncpa.com
Yassir Karam has been part of Clifton Gunderson’s National Valuation and Forensic Services group for more than 10 years. He provides valuation and forensic accounting consulting services to a variety of publicly traded and privately held companies. Mr. Karam conducts valuations of businesses, intellectual assets, derivatives, and complex capital structures. He performs financial modeling for purposes of mergers and acquisitions, operational improvement, initial public offering readiness, capital budgeting, and product launch.
Mr. Karam is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State ofIndiana. He is accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuations, American Society of Appraisers (ASA). Mr. Karam is a national instructor of the AICPA’s courses on Business Valuations and has served as a member of the AICPA Business Valuation Subcommittee and the AICPA ABV Exam Committee. Mr. Karam has served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University School of Law,Indianapolis, and as an Assistant Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Finance Department of Indiana University, Kelley School of Business.
Mr. Karam is a summa cum laude graduate ofMarianUniversitywith a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He received his MBA fromButlerUniversity, and his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
Julie Mahern
The Capital Grille
Indianapolis@tcgdine.com
With over 16 years of experience in sales, marketing and management Julie is now employed as the Sales and Marketing Manager at The Capital Grille of Indianapolis. Prior experience includes positions as Director of Sales, Marketing Director and Senior Sales Manager for various organizations including Sheraton Hotels, Carlson Hotels and GCA Properties. Along with her appointment to the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Board in 2010, Julie has also been working on the Indianapolis International Film Festival Board since 2008 and most recently joined the Board of the Indiana Chapter of Meeting Professionals International in 2011. Current and previous volunteer and committee work also include a diverse range of organizations, including the Indiana Society of Association Executives, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Planned Parenthood of Indiana, Dance Kaleidoscope and the Apartment Association of Indiana. Within these organizations Julie handled various responsibilities such as planning and hosting events, fundraising, obtaining and retaining membership and convention planning. Julie majored in Marketing Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Amesha McDonald
Porter Co. PACT
Portercountypactamesha@yahoo.com
Amesha has been an employee with Porter County PACT, a nonprofit criminal justice agency, since 1996. Amesha has over 15 years of experience working with batterers, facilitating, co-facilitating, training facilitators and monitors and supervising facilitators in PACT’s Stop Abuse & Violence through Education (SAVE) program. Amesha has assisted in training numerous victim advocates, law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors, probation officers, community corrections agencies, and various batterers intervention program staff both locally and statewide on issues related to male batterers power and control tactics and appropriate interventions (i.e. batterers intervention programming).
Amesha’s commitment to program integrity and community safety is evident in her serving as a board member with the Indiana Coalition against Domestic Violence (ICADV) since January 2003, and co-author of the Batterers Intervention Standards for the State of Indiana. Amesha has been a member of ICADV’s Batterers Standards Committee since 2001, and chair from 2003 – 2007. Amesha has chaired and co-chaired ICADV’s Membership Committee since 2009. She has also participated on the Mayor’s Commission against Domestic Violence and the Portage and Valparaiso Justice Committees from 1996 – 2009.
Phillip Olsson
Riley, Bennett & Egloff, LLP
polsson@rbelaw.com
Phillip Olsson is an associate attorney at Riley Bennett & Egloff, where he practices business and civil litigation. Prior to attending law school, Phillip worked as a legal advocate helping victims of domestic violence. In his position as a legal advocate, Phillip’s duties ranged from helping victims of domestic violence obtain orders of protection, to speaking at high schools about the warning signs of abusive relationships and the prevention of domestic violence. He is excited to have the opportunity to continue to help put an end to domestic violence.
Julianna Plawecki
Ice Miller LLP
Julianna.plawecki@icemiller.com
Julianna Plawecki (“Juli”) joined the ICADV Board in 2008 and is currently serving as its Vice President. She is a litigation and trial attorney with Ice Miller LLP, where she represents clients in a wide variety of business and commercial matters, including “no-injury” product liability class actions. Juli joined the Board because she believes in its vision of healthy relationships characterized by equality, respect and affection and wanted to support its mission to end domestic violence.
Mark Reichel
Attorney at Law
mark@reichelip.com
Mark Reichel is a fifth year Board member with the ICADV and currently serves as Board President. He is also a patent attorney with Ice Miller LLP, where he works with inventors and helps them protect their inventions with patents. Mark joined the ICADV Board based on his interest in contributing to make a difference consistent with the ICADV’s mission, and has remained on the Board to support the dedicated staff and volunteers who serve day to day.
Letter from the President
As we go about the business of our lives in service of our bosses, our customers, and our communities, we must never take for granted those people in our lives who enable us to do so. The positive network of support we enjoy from family and friends may at times be invisible, but its effect is invaluable. It sustains us, enabling us to give generously and receive gratefully. We can reach for the stars with a stable foundation beneath us, while our footing is unsure without it. The ICADV works each day to restore and preserve these essential positive relationships.
In one day in 2010, the ICADV member programs assisted 2,001 victims in the state. Of those 2,001, 1,042 domestic violence victims found refuge in emergency shelters or transitional housing provided by local domestic violence programs and 959 adults and children received non-residential assistance and services, including individual counseling, legal advocacy, and children’s support groups.
This work is selfless and emotionally difficult, but the strong, dedicated staff at the ICADV and the member programs throughout the state, take pride in doing it well because it is so important.
I personally would like to thank our members for their active participation and services, our donors who provide additional support so that we can continue our positive efforts, and our providers who have worked tirelessly to serve those who are most vulnerable.
If you haven’t already, please consider supporting the ICADV by clicking on the “donate” tab at the top of our website. Your donations help ensure that the ICADV can meet its stated mission to not only prevent, but also eliminate, domestic violence.
Thank you for your time and for your support of the ICADV.
Mark Reichel
Board President