Resources and Useful Links
The JAYC Foundation, Inc.
The J A Y C Foundation provides support and services to ensure the timely treatment of families that are recovering from abduction and the aftermath of other traumatic experiences. Transitioning Families provides the team for the clinical services provided by the Foundation.
AFCC
AFCC is the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – an interdisciplinary and international association of professionals dedicated to the resolution of family conflict.
E.A.G.A.L.A.
The Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) is dedicated to improving the mental health of individuals, families, and groups around the world by setting the standard of excellence in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning, also known as “horse therapy” or “equine therapy.”
Sonoma Couples Workshops
The workshops are designed to teach you exactly what successful couples do to foster romance and harmony in their relationships. SCW provides these workshops and professional training by Michael Basta, LCSW and Marcia Gomez, LCSW in partnership. Both are Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapists.
Connection Focused Therapy
Connection Focused Therapy® is a multidisciplinary modality designed to help people become empowered as individuals while learning to support, collaborate with and draw strength from loved ones, peers and communities. This process not only helps individuals recover from trauma and re-group after disruptive or traumatic experiences, it gives families the skills they need to handle crisis, uplift each other, and thrive long term.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
One of the largest and oldest judicial membership organizations in the nation, the NCJFCJ serves an estimated 30,000 professionals in the juvenile and family justice system including judges, referees, commissioners, court masters and administrators, social and mental health workers, police, and probation officers. A non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation, the NCJFCJ relies on funding from federal and state grants, private foundations, and generous members and donors.
Transitioning Families through The JAYC Foundation will be collaborating with the NCJFCJ for trainings.
Database Countrywide
Search complete, up-to-date public records for criminal and court systems in the U.S.
UpReach
Transitioning Families enjoys a close association with UpReach in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Through providing high quality equine assisted learning programs, UpReach strives towards excellence in its field. With the help of their equine partners, they are dedicated to enhancing quality of life for those they serve, by providing challenge, promoting independence, and celebrating success.
Polyvagal Equine Institute
Polyvagal Equine Institute is dedicated to supporting and furthering the polyvagal principles of safety and connections through interacting, connecting, and learning from horse/human connections via equine interventions.
The Red Barn
Transitioning Families also enjoys a close affiliation with The Red Barn in Leeds, Alabama. Their programs were inspired by the vision of Anita Cowart to create a place where those with burdened hearts could come to find faith, hope, and love while they worked with horses.
Each week over 100 children and adults visit the barn to work with our fabulous horses in order to strengthen their minds, bodies, and souls. Whether they are attending a riding lesson, camp, or educational activity, everyone entering the barn is welcomed, encouraged, and loved.
Books and Articles
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict, by the Arbinger Institute
We strongly recommend this book for all who seek our services in any area. http://arbinger.com/anatomyofpeace/
Model for Transitioning Families in Non-Familial Abductions
Rebecca Bailey, Joanna Lippert, and Jane F. Dickel; Chapter 25 in Perspectives on Missing Persons Cases, Edited by Mary Graw Leary, Sharon Watkins Cooper, Patty Wetterling, Daniel D. Broughton, Carolina Academic Press, 2015.
The Transitioning Families Therapeutic Model in Non-Familial Abductions
Abigail Judge, Rebecca Bailey, Joanna Behrman-Lippert, Elizabeth Bailey, Cynthia Psaila, and Jane Dickel. In Family Court Review Journal, Volume 54 Number, April 2016.. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fcre.12215/abstract
Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard; Simon and Schuster. (July 12, 2016)
Safe Kids, Smart Parents: What Parent Need to Know to Keep Their Children Safe
Rebecca Bailey, Ph.D. with Elizabeth Bailey, RN, BC; Simon and Schuster, June 2013.
A Stolen Life: a Memoir
Jaycee Lee Dugard; Simon and Schuster, 2012.