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Patti Bland
Patti Bland, MA.,CCDC, CDP, currently directs the Train the Trainer Project for the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Juneau. Ms. Bland served as both advocate and lead chemical dependency counselor for New Beginnings, a shelter and community-based program in Seattle, for over 12 years. She developed the Domestic Violence/ Chemical Dependency Outreach Project for King County at the Alcohol Drug Help Line in 1994. She served as the Domestic Violence Trainer for Providence Health System Family Violence Program in Washington State, as Adjunct Professor at Antioch University (teaching graduate course work in psychology), and as an instructor at Seattle Central Community College. She also served as an instructor for Child Protective Services at CPS Academy in Seattle, WA. Ms. Bland provides training and technical assistance addressing the intersection between domestic violence and substance abuse for programs across the nation. She has published several articles on chemical dependency and domestic violence and completed development of domestic violence curricula for the Washington State Medical Association and the Perinatal Partnership Against Domestic Violence. Recently Ms. Bland co-authored, with Debbie Edmund, “Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use,” an advocacy teaching kit for working with women coping with substance abuse and interpersonal violence. She is also the author of the “Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Curriculum for Advocates.”
