American Family Alliance & Family Alliance Network

Mission

AMERICAN FAMILY ALLIANCE and its FAMILY ALLIANCE NETWORK are dedicated to promoting early detection and intervention for current rising cultural concerns, preventing family crisis that causes at-risk youth, and developing strong, empowered families within the community through advocacy, education, research, and service.

2023 DIRECTIVE – To work with like-minded individuals in the government, in business, in professions, in schools, in communities, in coalitions, and in homes to establish plans for early intervention and prevention to include long-term transition for survivors of trauma.  By decreasing the time between the injury of trauma and intervention children can be recovered to live an empowered life.

The research is showing the complex relationship between early trauma and lifelong concerns. Taking this down to the local level means addressing the home situation where families start experiencing the early signs of trouble around employment, housing, finances, relationships, health, mental health, community involvement, and spiritual support. The family has to have its own safety network to turn to when situations come up. Without that network, family’s trouble compound and spiral as everything escalate.

Thus, from what we have discovered in 2019, it’s important to raise awareness on current concerning issues, educate to be trauma-informed, and reactiveness like bullying and other behavioral concerns. The focus is to engage our families within our community to educate and speak out about different concerns, and see what families are drawn to address personal concerns. The family will only share when they trust the services and know that there are options that will help them find real solutions, not pay one bill or do yet another intake with no long-term benefits.

For all the current concerns, including Opioids, Trafficking, Attachment-Based Parent Alienation, Psychological Abuse, Domestic Violence, Chronic Health Concerns, Violent Abuses, Bullying, School Shootings & Suicide, the answer is early intervention & prevention.

That focus is on trauma, an injury from the root damage of psychopathology and reactive dynamics, and the resulting effects on interpersonal relationships. Strong communities have options for families that experience life crises and give a path forward that secures the future.

Since those injured can take Life 30 to 40 years to receive help, life-long victimhood trapped in a dependent state is the outcome for many of our children and families. This means community and collaboration with all the resources have to step up to bridge the gaps.

Facing our own stigma and shame is tough. By doing this work, we are capable to develop empathy, forgiveness, and personal empowerment. This development brings forth authentic education and training for our communities. Together with collaboration gives actionable steps and resources to pass through the crisis into a stabilized healthy life as an empowered contribution to their family and community. This is the proven mode that affords the survivor the best outcomes.

2020 Collaborative Projects

Greater Piedmont Pilot Program for early intervention and prevention of violence in our communities

Fauquier County Community Collaboration for Trauma-Informed, Anti-Bullying Platform

Fauquier County Housing Comprehensive Review – being a complex core issue for families crisis

National Evaluation of Exploited Children in Foster Care & Family Courts

Civil Rights for All Amercians

American Life & Liberty – Preservation of Constitutional Rights for All Americans

Virginia Women Voters Coalition

Conscious Co Parenting

When you divorce, you are still activating our human drive for connection, most of the time, however, this drive for connection during divorce, is activated negatively. This fuels high conflict and keeps our children stuck in the miserable middle.

We teach you an easy to implement process, to empower you as a parent, and as a coach, you will know exactly how to positively connect with your children and how this directly affects your child’s brain and what you can do to ensure your child’s optimal brain development.

One of the best part about this process is it triggers the mirroring neurons in those around you, as emotions are contagious and you will start to have an affect on EVERYONE including the high conflict parents. It is fantastic and based on scientific brain research, how cools it that?

Early Childhood Trauma

The focus is on the Opioid Addiction that is front and center on the news. 

Child Sex Trafficking is on the rise across our country and around the world.  Currently Trafficking Rings are being broken up every day.   Gangs 101 says find two other people and start pimping children. The new model is keeping the children in your home as long as possible using their mobile devices as electronic leashes. At first with promises and later with real threats and violence. This is the open window in your home for your child to the world where highly sophisticated gang members, criminals and other dangerous people. These coercive people come into your house through social media, befriends your child and gives them something the want or need. THAT IS THE HOOK that allows them to be groomed in 100% exploitation. With a price tag of $250,000 for 7 years (the shelf life of the child commodity) motivates many individuals to go down this path. They use coercive controls to steal your children under your nose while using highly skilled network to instill fear, shame and threats against your child, siblings and the wellbeing of the family. 

Child Sex Trafficking is up every year 500% and will surpass the Opioid Health Crisis by 2020.

Suicide is now up 45% and a major concern across our country.

Early Intervention & Prevention

Everyone agrees the answer is early intervention and prevention.   The question is how do we do this quickly and well.

The PROBLEM is how to get to the ones being victimized early enough to prevent the patterns of continued targeted abuse.  Kids that see LOVE is defined as pain can not see a way out.

The known answer is early intervention and prevention when families and children are seeking help, prior to crisis of abuse, drugs or trafficking.  Educated families and communities can identify the common roots of trauma that that sets up children to be targeted, groomed and trapped in abusive relationships.

The steps are targeting, grooming and ultimately coercive control through psychological abuse, physical abuse, drug abuse and sexual abuse.  Criminals trick victims and keep them trapped by fear, force, threat, shame and abuse.

Families are already trapped in unresolved Coercive Control of Psychological Abuse end up being targeted by gangs, criminals and other dangerous individuals to include terrorists.  The mask of addiction, child sex trafficking and other criminal activity is propped up by a malignant network and personality type that sees this as normal.  Someone snared are now trapped in a very dangerous world, with no way out. 

Coercive Control is the new rules of engagement. This control leads to many other methods of control. First responders are being trained in the signs of trauma and coercive tactics. To stop the rise of this criminal action that is harming our families we need a network of collaboration. Without very specific tools to identify these tactics and intervene successfully, more damage is done. This leaves the victim in a worse situation.

The core is early violent psychological abuse strips a person at their core. The inclusion of physical and sexual abuse against children are the nails that seal all the doors. The result is a lifelong trauma that can be groomed and triggered to repeat the cycle abuse and dependence over and over again.

The Red Flags of Victims of Psychological Abuse

Do you know the Red Flags of Coercive Control?  What does trauma look like? And even more importantly do you know HOW to intervene safely? One wrong move can cost the child their life or push them deeper into the hell they are trapped. Trauma Bonding is hard to understand unless you are trained. This is about safety on all levels, protection and successfully recovering a child, or now adult. Typically, this abuse takes about 30-40 years before the now adult consciously seeks help from professionals.

After years of research in the cultural concerns around family and crisis, prevention and the earliest of intervention is the best option to keep families from falling into extreme situations. Without intervention life is riddled with criminal activities, harmful lifestyles and long term dependency on government services, community and family. The end result is devastation and possibly early death.  This complicated, multilayered, giant concern can be addressed with an added layer bridging the family with well informed communities and the right services.

After speaking with thousands of survivors of abuse and crisis, and a full spectrum of professionals in almost every possible field of expertise, all agree that dealing directly with the under currents of what dis-empowers families, one or all members.  The goal would be to empower the family as a whole and each member within the community in order to prevent or at least intervene at the earliest point to to avoid extreme crisis and radical interventions.  This means healthy connections and healthy relationships.

Coercive Control  and other abuses are the Core Issues found within the Child Sex Trafficking, and other serious crimes against children.  These are the early signals of disempowerment that gangs, criminals and terrorists are trained to target children and break their ties to their communities.

Predators and malicious personalities groom targets at first friending them, and then slowly hooking them through manipulations.  Things start out fine and then slowly over time it changes into something else.

A child should never be in this position. Overtime cycles repeat if not recovered. Even a person, that was powerful over in their own, wears down over time right becomes trapped, confused and dis-empowered. There is NO WAY OUT of extreme situations of trauma. They do not even know they are abused. Their shame, guilt and trauma bonding prevents them to even self identify as a victim of abuse. They see themselves as bad and deserving all the bad that befalls them. Professional intervention is required. First responders need to have training on the subtle red flags and specialized professionals trained in the psychopathology that caused them to be so severely injured has to diagnose the perpetrated trauma and the fragile personality in order to recover the traumatized child, possibly now adult.

Empowerment is the Solution

The truth is families are searching for help in almost every case.  The current system lets them slip through the cracks. The first responders and professionals need to be Trauma Informed to see the subtle red flags of early intervention.  By the time the children are in crisis, they have one foot in the grave.  Early intervention is not found in the  hospitals, addiction centers, or jails.  Breaking the cycle of runaways, addiction, incarceration, criminal activities, trafficking and death has to be the answer.

Collaboration as Support for Recovery 

Collaboration is accomplished through education, awareness, early identification of first responders and professionals to identify the early signs of abuse that cause traumatic injury from different types of psychopathologies resulting in traumatic injury and trauma bonding. Trauma Informed and other evidence based programs that focus on long term transition for the child victims, families, and communities  recover from the coercive controls and the many associated abuses, one day at a time.

Board of Directors

MAURINE KELLY, Psychologist, PhD, CGP, FIPA
Director of Mental Health

DEBBIE MCCABE
Director of Medical Practice

LEEANN CONNER 
Director of Technology, Media & Social Issues 

LEAH ROBERTS
Director of Environmental, Global & General Health Research

DEBBIE CLOUD
Chairman of the Board
Director of Family Advocacy (Limited Voting)

Family Advocates

JHONABELLE BINA BIADO, Family Advocate, Philippines

LAURA ABBOTT, Family Advocate

WENDY ANN GREENE, Family Advocate


Executive Directors

CHRIS & DEBBIE CLOUD, Co-Executive Directors

Global Family Alliance 501C(3)  (under application)
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