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Email Megan Email Shayla Browse & Buy: Announcements Apartments & Rentals Automotive Employment Farmer's Market Financial Legals Merchandise for Sale Real Estate for Sale Recreational Call A Pro Page 1 Call A Pro Page 2 MARKETPLACE Amador County Chamber of Commerce SUBSCRIBER CENTER Contact the Ledger Dispatch Subscribe Today COMMUNITY LINKS California Highway Patrol Traffic Info Page City of Jackson Jackson Police Department City of Amador Amador County Chamber of Commerce Amador Superior Court City of Plymouth Amador County Caltrans Road Conditions HomeTown Radio City of Ione Amador County Sheriff City of Sutter Creek CLICK GALLERIES April Click Submissions Click - March 25, 2008 Click - March 18, 2008 Click - March 11, 2008 Click — February 19, 2008 Photos Courtesy of John Shepherd More Click Galleries E-mail this article to a friend | Printer friendly format Local woman appointed to state Domestic Violence Advisory Council Monday, June 01, 2009 By Bethany A. Monk Lynda Smallenberger, executive director of the Me-Wu Family Healing Center, Inc. in Jamestown, has been appointed to the state's Domestic Violence Advisory Council by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. On May 12, she was sworn in to her new position by her husband, David Richmond, an Amador County Superior Court judge. Photo by: Bethany A. Monk Lynda Smallenberger, executive director of the Kene Me-Wu Family Healing Center, Inc., which services Amador and surrounding counties, has been appointed to the state's Domestic Violence Advisory Council by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I feel honored to be selected," Smallenberger told the Ledger Dispatch. Smallenberger was officially sworn in to her new position on May 12 at the County Administration Center in Jackson during the Amador County Child Abuse Prevention Council meeting. Her husband, Amador County Superior Court Judge David Richmond, swore her in during the meeting. "I was very proud of her," Richmond told the Ledger Dispatch. "She works very hard at what she does and is respected throughout the state." As a member of the DVAC, Smallenberger will attend DVAC meetings and will help make decisions related to the state's Domestic Violence Program. Otherwise known as DVP, the program funds shelter-based domestic violence services; domestic violence prevention activities; and outreach to unserved and underserved populations, according to the state's Web site. Smallenberger has been working for Kene Me-Wu Family Healing Center, Inc., an American Indian domestic violence/sexual assault assistance program since 1999. Until 2000, the center was located at Black Oak Casino at the Tuolumne Rancheria grounds in Tuolumne. It's now located 18500 Rawhide Road, Jamestown. The center offers a culturally sensitive response to domestic violence in American Indian households in Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. It is a nonprofit organization funded by a grant from the California Office of Emergency Services. "With our office located in Jamestown, county victim-witness programs and various shelter programs have allowed us to utilize their offices when working in various counties," Smallenberger states. She travels throughout the county to meet with clients, law enforcement, hospitals and other agencies to ensure the women and men who need help from the center get what they need. Smallenberger became the center's executive director in 2000. It's her ability to be the voice for women and men who can't speak up for themselves that keeps her going in her line of work, she said. "Years ago, I was in a volatile situation. I was in such a rural area, nobody could find me," she said. Eventually, she got up the nerve to leave. Since then, she's made her life work to help others in similar situations. "I've always felt the draw to the native community," Smallenberger said. "I think Indian women (and men) need someone who looks like them, thinks like them." Smallenberger said she applied for the DVAC position more than two years ago and was surprised to learn of her recent appointment. From 2002 to 2006, Smallenberger sat on the board of directors for the California Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Coalition, "For Our Future." She currently sits the board of directors for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and the Administration Office of the Courts for Violence Against Women Education Project. DVAC defines domestic violence as "a spectrum and often a pattern of behaviors that includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse and/or economic control used by adults or adolescents against their current or former intimate partners in an attempt to exercise power and authority, which has a destructive, harmful effect on individuals, the family and the community," as stated on its Web site. For more information about the Kene Me-Wu Family Healing Center, call 984-8602, e-mail kmwfhc@sbcglobal.net. The center's crisis line, open 24 hours a day, is (800) 792-7776. In an emergency, dial 911. Bethany A. Monk COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE No comments have been posted in the last 15 days! SEND US YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE * - Required fields Subject: * Message: * Contact Name: * Contact URL: Contact Email: * Write the text from image below to this textbox HOME | NEWS | SPORTS | LIFE | OPINION SPECIAL SECTION | SUBSCRIBER CENTER | BULLETIN | PHOTOS OUR PRIVACY POLICY Powered By: