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Joyce Bilyeu
Training Manager, Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento, Inc.
“Joyce has an excellent command of the many issues which impact the field of domestic violence and sexual assault. I value the information she has taught me and have certainly  benefited from her expertise and experience."
Joyce has worked as the project coordinator for the Family Support Collaborative, Birth & Beyond, and Nurse Family Partnership programs. She is the past Director of Counseling Services for WEAVE and served on the Sacramento County Domestic Violence Death Review Team. She has over twenty years of expertise in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault providing direct services to victims along with training to law enforcement, health care providers, civic organization and community members.
 
Lisa Sutter
Training Manager, Prevent Child Abuse California
“Lisa is a very knowledgeable well-spoken energetic trainer.Her positive energy helped create a safe learning environment.”
Serving as California’s state leader for the nationally acclaimed home visitation program Healthy Families America (HFA), Lisa also acts as the chapter’s premier HFA family support worker trainer. Lisa has delivered training for multiple hospitals and non-governmental organizations in Romania with Lift the Children, where she educated staff on infant development, strength-based services, and family support. Currently she is completing certification for West Ed’s applauded Program for Infant Toddler Caregivers (PITC) Institute. She is also certified to teach the Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect (PCAN) curriculum, Parent/Provider Partnerships in Child Care through Zero to Three. Lisa is past president for Soroptimist International Sacramento North where she works to improve the lives of women within Sacramento and worldwide. Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Child Development /Elementary Education from Humboldt State University.
 
Gustavo Campos
Training Specialist
“Gustavo was really great…well prepared and helped everyone understand the material.”        
Gustavo’s areas of expertise include: cultural competence, child development, the strength-based approach applied to human services, and home visitation. Gustavo is the only certified Healthy Families America bi-lingual family support worker trainer in California. Gustavo has also developed, implemented and coordinated a community health worker curriculum at El Concilio of San Mateo County in collaboration with Canada Community College in the Bay Area. Born and raised in Peru, he is a trained social anthropologist and received his Master’s Degree in Human Development & Family Studies from Colorado State University.
 
Lucy Hernandez
Training Specialist
“Lucy’s Conflict Resolution class will help me with my work responsibilities because I learned new techniques to resolve communication conflicts with supervisors and clients.”
Lucy brings to her trainings over 10 years of experience working in the human services field as a case manager and supervisor of multiple grant-funded programs. In addition she currently oversees two Family Resource Centers. She has promoted and delivered multiple trainings for youth, community parents, day care associations, agency partners and community organizations. She has facilitated topics ranging from child development to system change issues within the child welfare system redesign project. Lucy enjoys supporting the development of new human service workers, such as members with the AmeriCorps project, which she has managed for the last three years in Glenn County, California. Lucy is completing her B.A. in social work and psychology at California State University, Chico.
 
Bernadette Johnson
Training Specialist
 
“Bernadette’s presentation was highly informative and presented in a professional, yet fun and interactive manner…I am better prepared to serve the children in our programs.”
 
Bernadette’s background includes curriculum development for various topics related to higher education within the framework of an adult learning model. Her career includes being an art teacher and support worker for developmentally delayed children and facilitating interactive sessions on various topics related to family therapy. She is certified through Zero to Three to teach the Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect (PCAN) curriculum, Parent/Provider Partnerships in Child Care. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Communicative Arts from Humboldt State University and a Master’s of Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing from University of Phoenix. Bernadette is currently completing her Master of Science Degree in Counseling, Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy at the University of Phoenix.
 
Heather Blanchard
Training Specialist
“Heather’s training was the most fulfilling training I have had. Everything was clear and easily understood…I loved it! I can see Heather’s enthusiasm in all of her trainings”
Heather earned her Masters Degree in Sociology at California State University, Sacramento in 2004. While working on her thesis, she specialized in the area of acculturation and assimilation of immigrant women in the Sacramento area and brings that knowledge to her current work as a Training Specialist. Presently she facilitates many trainings including Healthy Families America and all of the trainings for the Sacramento County Birth & Beyond program which include basic training, effecting parenting workshops, FRC fundamentals and domestic violence. She is also certified through Zero to Three to teach the Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect (PCAN) curriculum, Parent/Provider Partnerships in Child Care. Her past experiences include two years as a life skills trainer for CalWORKs participants and three years as a Family Resource Center Coordinator for Birth & Beyond. 
 
Elizabeth (Liz) Azevedo
Training Specialist
“Excellent! Excellent! Training should be videotaped to train other trainers. Worthy of emulation.”
Liz earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996; while a student there, she began her work as a community educator and advocate through her participation in the Rape Prevention Education Program (RPEP) as a student peer educator and student program coordinator. In 1999, she began working in outpatient mental health in Sacramento first serving youth ages 14-24 with severe mental health diagnoses. Since then, she has provided mental health, crisis intervention, outreach, education/training, and advocacy services to: an outpatient mental health clinic, a wraparound services program for homeless mentally ill adults; two domestic violence and sexual assault crisis centers; and, a family violence services program for California tribal communities. 
 
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