Tech Support Training
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About This Event
Join NMCADV to learn more about ZOOM and any other tech questions you may have! We are here to help and be your Screen Team!
About your facilitators:
Teresa Garcia is a first-generation graduate from the University of New Mexico, holding a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She is originally from El Paso, Texas. Teresa is bilingual and Spanish is her first (native) language. As a survivor of domestic violence she left her 10 year Pharmaceutical career to make a difference in her community and raise awareness for domestic violence. She has supported and served in different capacities for local and statewide organizations and committees advocating for survivors of DV and SA. She served on the SAKI and ASERT city and state wide committees along side S.A.F.E House and SANE in Albuquerque, New Mexico in support of survivors of sexual assault. She currently remains engaged and continues to advocate within her community in being part of several committees such as the New Mexico Heritage Committee, South West Community Policing Council, MMIW Committee, SW DV Steering Committee and is currently the Chair for the Albuquerque Celebrates Recovery Event Committee in memory of Adan Carriaga.
Teresa has extensive experience holding several positions while working for NMCADV since 2019 such as Outreach, Membership, Education, Communications and Training. In her current role as the Director of Training, Teresa strives to engage, coordinate and implement efforts to create trainings and the facilitation of NMCADV conferences as well as with the local DA office in support of NMCADV Membership programs, stakeholders and community organizations. Her dedicated efforts have resulted in expanding trainings not only throughout the State of New Mexico but are also offered Nationwide.
David Garvin serves as the Director of Battering Intervention and Systems Response for the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence. David has been directly involved in the anti-domestic violence movement since 1986 when he founded the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA) battering intervention program. David was named the 2009 National Association of Social Workers-Michigan (NASW-MI) Social Worker of the Year. David’s work in the movement to end domestic violence was featured in the book Gender-Based Perspectives on Batterer Programs: Program Leaders on History, Approach, Research and Development, by Edward W. Gondolf, 2015. In 2017 David was awarded the Glenn R. Winters Award (renamed the Nachtigal Award in 2018) from the American Judges Association. David is a co-founder and current Chair of the Battering Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan (BISC-MI: https://www.biscmi.org/).