February 24, 2011Brown Bag Lunch Series: Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
Presenters: Randy Flood, M.A., L.L.P. Director and Therapist,Men´s Resource Center at Fountain Hill, Al Heysteck, MA, LPC, MDiv, Therapist Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill, Joyce Wright, Director of Training, Michigan Domestic Violence. Prevention and Treatment Board
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12pm-1:30pm
Location: Kent County Court House, 180 Ottawa Ave NW, 5th Floor Conference Room, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
This session will explore the issues related to domestic violence and substance abuse. Panelists will discuss how substance abuse is a complex factor in domestic violence cases. They will discuss the co-morbidity of the issues by highlighting how the two separate issues intersect and the need of intervention and services. The perspective of both the batterer/perpetrator as well as the victim/survivor will be explored.
Cost: Program is free. $15 optional social work continuing education credit fee payable upon check-in (includes training materials and 1.5 approved social work continuing education clock hours)
CECHs: Grand Valley State University School of Social Work is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative – Provider MI CEC-0004. This program is 1.5 hours.
No Registration required for program. For continuing education credits, register at check-in between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon.
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Questions? Please contact Ashley at nickelas@gvsu.edu
Sex Addiction
Randy Flood of the Men’s Resource Center talked with Shelly Irwin about the topic of Sex Addiction. You can listen to this interview on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. on WGVU 88.5FM Radio.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Family Matters: Domestic Violence: Telling Amy’s Story
Randy Flood of the Men’s Resource Center was a expert guest panelist regarding Domestic Abuse for the show Family Matters: Domestic Violence: Telling Amy’s Story on WGVU-TV. Randy’s panel discussion is on from 3-3:30 p.m. on WGVU-TV. For the full show you can watch from 2-3:30 p.m.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Men’s Retreat: Our Chosen Fathers
Randy Flood co-facilitated and co-led a Men’s Retreat with Rev. Chandler Stokes from Westminster Presbyterian Church located in Grand Rapids. They touched on the following topics: Who are our chosen Fathers?, Who have they lead us to become?, And who do we long to be?
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Loving Partnerships and the Work of Communication
By popular demand Randy will return to facilitate a continued discussion of the challenges and disciplines needed for fair and loving communication. This discussion was part of the Adult Education Hour at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Grand Rapids.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Intimate Relationships: The Mystery and Skill of Loving Relationships
Randy Flood presented to an Adult Education Class at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Grand Rapids on the topic Intimate Relationships. Randy discussed how intimate relationships won’t thrive on passion alone, nor will they grow by becoming an expert on your partner’s deficits. In order for intimacy and connection to grow, relationships need to be intentional, skill-based, and covenantal. Our intimate relationships are integral in cultivating joy and satisfaction OR pain and unhappiness in our lives. Randy Flood, psychotherapist, helped participants understand how intimate relationships function along the continuum of healthy to dysfunctional. He elucidated how the paradigm for healthy relationships has evolved over time requiring greater personal development to achieve deeper intimacy and connection. He explored the dimensions of dysfunction and health so that participants are more mindful in their quest to develop loving, evolved and joyful relationships with their intimate partners.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Randy Flood presents at Western Michigan University’s “Choices for Living” Class on Focusing on Male Socialization
Randy had the opportunity to speak to approximately 800 students in 4 different “Choices for Living” Classes at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He helped the students understand how traditional male socialization, the construction of masculinity, can lead to problems in living, particularly in intimate relationships, health care, and emotional health. He helped the students understand how mid-life crisis, sexual addiction, domestic abuse, bullying in schools, and generalized violence in society can all be traced back to males buying into the the “tough guise” of masculine idealogy. Randy used visual aides as well as student exercises to help the students appreciate how developing one’s full humanity enables men to live more joyfully and fully in the 21st century. The feedback from the class and professors involved were positive such that Randy continues to be asked to speak to this class every semester.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Randy Flood’s article “Who’s The (New) Man” is published in the magazine Voice Male Summer 2009 Edition
In this meditation on a father’s struggle with old and new ideas about masculinity, Randy Flood examines his relationship with his 19 year old son Zach.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Domestic Violence Dynamics in the Emergency Room
Randy Flood trained ER Staff on domestic violence on two different days. He helped physicians, nurses, and techs to understand the prevalence of domestic violence, dynamics of domestic violence as well as strategies to screen domestic violence. Finally, he introduced the staff to models of domestic violence counseling.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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Men’s Issues in Healthcare
Randy Flood trained Family Physician Residents at St. Mary’s Hospital on Men’s Issues in Health-care. He educated them on issues such as sex addiction, domestic abuse, mid-life crisis and other germane issues concerning men. He helped the residents understand how male socialization can make it difficult for men to ask for help, and get treated for medical problems. He gave them strategies to enable men to talk more openly while encouraging men to be more actively involved in their health-care, emotional health, and relational health.
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Randy Flood, Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill
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