First Dave Peiser, now Drew Leavens? Yes, I know there are two Democrats challenging me but I'm getting plenty of fundraising from my investigations so I know I'm covered just fine.
Drew Leavens, a marriage and family therapist who is the second Democratic candidate running to unseat Darrell Issa (besides Dave Peiser), is working to shore up support for his campaign.
On February 16th, Drew Leavens will be making an appearance at the La Jolla Democratic Club from 2 pm - 3 pm. This should give you a chance meet Leavens himself and ask questions. Details of the event are as follows:
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Join Drew at the La Jolla Democratic Club
Community Room, AMC Theatres La Jolla 12
8657 Villa La Jolla Drive, San Diego, CA 92037
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
February 16, 2014
Website of the La Jolla Democratic Club here:
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Here's a bit of bio from Drew Leavens' website to give you a sense of his background:
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After college, Drew moved back to San Diego to take a job with what was originally the Department of Substance Abuse, later taken over by San Diego County Mental Health. He began working as a crisis counselor (1975). Two years later, he was made the manager of what became known as The Crisis Team. He supervised a staff of 22 counselors in the 24-hour a day operation, that had over 30,000 contacts each year. In the late 70’s, he received his marriage, family and child counseling license (MFCC) and soon after started a small private counseling practice. His first published article, “Suicide Intervention for First Responders” appeared in the book, Conflict Intervention in Social and Domestic Violence, edited by Carmen Warner (1981). While still manager of The Crisis Team, he was approached by Caltrans to assist in reducing the number of suicides off the Coronado Bridge. The collaboration resulted in signs posted along the bridge to let depressed individuals know that there were others who cared about them, along with a phone at the base of the bridge to reach The Crisis Team. The signs are still there today.
After working with the county for ten years, Drew left to form his own company, first called Drew Leavens and Associates, and soon renamed Specialized Training Services (STS), (1985). The company initially provided training to the county probation and sheriff’s offices throughout California but soon expanded to larger target audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Over time, STS developed a reputation of providing the highest quality training programs on very difficult topics such as sexual offender assessment, campus violence prevention, domestic violence, homicide, threat assessment in the workplace, terrorism, stalking, risk assessment of the mentally Ill and child custody evaluations. In 1992, Drew and STS were recognized for its outstanding seminars by receiving the “Excellence in Training” award from the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel.
For more than 28 years STS has provided over 1200 seminars and conferences to over 70,000 individuals. At the turn of the decade, STS began to publish books for professionals on important topics such as “Violence Risk and Threat Assessment”, “School Violence Threat Management” and “Workplace Assessment of Violence Risk” (WAVR-21) and “Children who Witness Homicide and other Violent Crime.” In addition to publishing six books, Drew was the editor of four of them. In 2011, STS coordinated a contract with the University of California, Office of the President, to provide workplace and campus safety and threat assessment training to each of the ten UC campuses. In 2013, STS worked with the United States Capital Police to provide training for their staff in Washington, DC on advanced threat assessment and threat management. The work of Specialized Training Services continues today (specializedtraining.com).
If you desire to support and get involved in Drew Leavens' campaign for Congress, links are below:
Drew Leavens for Congress:
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Leavens on the Issues: http://dl49th.wpengine.com/...
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