Young Men's Work Complete Collection

Allan Creighton is director of education and training for the TODOS Institute, and has conducted trainings and workshops for the Institute since its founding in 1991. He joined TODOS' parent organization, New Bridges, as staff training facilitator, in 1987. Allan is co-founder and former director of the Oakland Men's Project. Begun in 1979, OMP is a grassroots multicultural agency devoted to building alliances across lines of race, age, gender, sexual orientation and economic background to eliminate interpersonal and institutional violence, in particular, men's violence against women. OMP trainings range from introductory workshops on ""unlearning"" sexism, racism, and other social oppressions to multi-year training programs for school districts, service providers and criminal justice institutions. Allan is also co-founder and former director of Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE), a counseling intervention program for men who batter in heterosexual and gay relationships. He founded and directed the award-winning Teen Program for Battered Women's Alternatives, the largest domestic violence service in the Bay area, a designated model program for the State of California, providing primary prevention education for 45,000 youth and adults on domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and interracial conflict. In the above capacities he has conducted trainings for adult professionals and youth across the state and country since 1979. Allan was born and raised by New England parents in a farming community in Pennsylvania. He is married to Julie Nesnansky, a specialist in early education for developmentally disabled infants and children, and lives in Oakland. Paul Kivel is a trainer, activist, writer and a cofounder of the Oakland Men's Project. He has personally developed and conducted hundreds of workshops, training thousands of teens and adults on such topics as male/female relationships, alternatives to violence, racism, family violence and sexual assault, parenting, and diversity issues. He has worked with public and private schools and universities, government agencies, youth recreation and leadership programs, juvenile corrections, jails and prisons, and with community based organizations. His essays have been published in books and magazines and he has appeared on local and national TV. Paul Kivel is the author of several books including Men's Work: How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart, and Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, which received the Gustavus Myers award for Human Rights in 1996. He is also co-author of several widely used curricula including Making the Peace, Young Men's Work, Helping Teens Stop Violence, and Young Women's Lives. His most recent book is Boys Will Be Men: Raising Our Sons for Courage, Caring, and Community. Paul Kivel lives in Oakland, CA, with his partner and their daughter and two sons.