Lifetime Television joins The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence in a salute to Sandra Camacho and Ricardo Carrillo, Ph.D. for working together to stop violence against women.

Sandra Camacho
Sandra Camacho is associate director of the Violence Intervention Program Inc., the first Latina-operated bilingual and bicultural domestic violence program in the state of New York. Camacho is also a founding member of the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) and serves on its board of directors. She has served as the associate director of La Casa de Las Madres in San Francisco and was the project coordinator for the Latina Health Policy Project of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. Camacho, who has a graduate degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work, has garnered local and national recognition for her 18 years of hard work in preventing violence against women and children and championing women's health as well as multilingual and multicultural access.

Ricardo Carrillo, Ph.D.
Ricardo Carrillo, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and an internationally recognized clinical trainer with specialization in domestic violence, family therapy, forensic psychology, addictions and cultural competence. He serves as director of Latino mental health for the Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, California, and heads the Training and Technical Assistance Division of the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza). Dr. Carrillo is the senior editor of the textbook "Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male Spirit."

The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) is part of a national effort to address the domestic violence needs and concerns of underserved populations. It represents a growing network of Latina and Latino advocates, community activists, practitioners, researchers and survivors of domestic violence who are dedicated to creating culturally responsive strategies and programs to help eliminate domestic violence in Latino communities. Alianza's mission is to promote understanding, sustain dialogue and generate solutions that move toward the elimination of domestic violence in these communities. It does this by working in four major areas: community development and education; public policy; research; and training and technical assistance. Alianza's work is guided by several principles: the recognition that domestic violence within Latino families occurs in the context of communities suffering from a legacy of colonialism, poverty, discrimination and racism; respect for the diversity of Latino communities; men and women working together (with the understanding that women remain the primary victims of domestic violence); a search for alternatives to the overreliance on the criminal justice system to hold batterers accountable; and an integration of culture and spirituality into its work.

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