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Each of the twenty-nine staff people bring experience in some of the following areas; management, volunteer coordination, crisis counseling, program development, training, community education, service coordination, and clerical, All have five and forty-three years work experience, and have completed our training program. Nineteen of the twenty-nine staff people who are currently involved with program development, management and coordination of services have been involved with violent relationships. A legal consultant has been retained on a contract basis. VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Volunteers are recruited with a focus on including women who have used our services. Currently, one-third of our volunteers fit this description, and the majority of the women who provide services have had personal experience with the battering issues. A volunteer advisory council is elected by the volunteers and works with the volunteer coordinator to assure that volunteers are an integral part of the program. We utilize the community organizing model in providing services. We believe that this encourages more people to speak out against violence and enables more people to hear about the services available. It is difficult to measure the number of battered women we serve indirectly. We send out information to almost every home in our service area. Occasionally, women call us in response to the information they received about our services. There is no way to measure the number of women affected by the information we provide who have not yet acted on it. The number of battered women we serve directly is listed on the attached form. Board and staff believe evaluation is essential and conduct regular evaluations in several ways. The staff self - evaluate and ourevaluated by the Director/Supervisor to assess progress in meeting the specifications of their job description and the tasks of their work program. The Director is evaluated by the Board of Directors. The battered women fill out evaluation forms. Other service providers are asked for input on an annual basis. The State Coalition has established evaluation criteria which are used to measure our program, FLEXIBILITY OF PROGRAMS The Family Violence Network assesses the needs of those in violent relationships and adapts and adds to our programs to meet these needs. For example: a school administrator asked us to send an advocate to talk to a female student who was being abused by her boyfriend. The initial interview quickly grew into a support group at the high school, followed by other similar groups. This led us to purchase an appropriate slide show and develop our Dating Violence Awareness Education Program which is presented at area high schools. C