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Joseph Ganaway,
Former Executive Director of SBAC
For the past thirty years, Joe Ganaway has served Sacramento as
a chemical dependency counselor, agency executive director and
consultant for community development.
As a founding member of SBAC, in 1979 Mr. Ganaway recognized a
need to expand the scope of chemical dependency programs to address
the concurrent problem of Intimate Partner Abuse. Increase in
the need for domestic violence treatment led to development of
a separate program in 1982, based on the Domestic Conflict Containment
Program (DCCP). Using the couple oriented DCC model, Mr. Ganaway
approached the problem from a compassionate, strengths-focused
perspective which valued the clients' perceptions and needs regarding
their own relationships, as formulated through dialogue. Although
this approach met with considerable success, by 1988 the "perception
of how [couples treatment] worked was changing" and in the
early 1990s the pendulum was "in full swing" towards
increasingly adversarial and blame-focused orientations and methods.
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