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| Name | Drew E. Leavens |
| Address | P. O. Box 14853
Irvine, California 92623, United States |
| Email | info@dl45th.com |
| Website | http://www.dl45th.com/ |
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October 01, 1952
(71 years)
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| Info | The youngest of three children born of Garth (1915-2001) and Hermina Leavens, Drew Eugene Leavens was born October 1, 1952 at Palomar Hospital in Escondido, CA. The family moved to Ventura, CA, just north of Los Angeles, when Drew was very young. There Drew went through grade school, junior high and high school, graduating from Buena High School in 1970. He was a surfer in the era of long boards and also competed in organized sports while in school. After receiving his AA degree from Ventura Community college in 1972, he transferred to California State University at Sonoma where he received his BA (1974, honors, dean’s list) after just three semesters. Following a semester of post graduate study he began work on his Master’s degree. For his Master’s project, Drew spent a year working with delinquent adolescent females in a residential setting. He received his MA in Psychology (counseling emphasis) in 1975.
After college, Drew moved to San Diego to take a job with what was originally the Department of Substance Abuse, later taken over by San Diego County Mental Health. He began working as a crisis counselor (1975). Two years later, he was made the manager of what became known as The Crisis Team. He supervised a staff of 22 counselors in the 24-hour a day operation, that had over 30,000 contacts each year. In the late 70’s, he received his marriage, family and child counseling license (MFCC) and soon after started a small private counseling practice. His first published article, “Suicide Intervention for First Responders” appeared in the book, Conflict Intervention in Social and Domestic Violence, edited by Carmen Warner (1981). While still manager of The Crisis Team, he was approached by Caltrans to assist in reducing the number of suicides off the Coronado Bridge. The collaboration resulted in signs posted along the bridge to let depressed individuals know that there were others who cared about them, along with a phone at the base of the bridge to reach The Crisis Team. The signs are still there today.
After working with the county for ten years, Drew left to form his own company, first called Drew Leavens and Associates, and soon renamed Specialized Training Services (STS), (1985). The company initially provided training to the county probation and sheriff’s offices throughout California but soon expanded to larger target audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Over time, STS developed a reputation of providing the highest quality training programs on very difficult topics such as sexual offender assessment, campus violence prevention, domestic violence, homicide, threat assessment in the workplace, terrorism, stalking, risk assessment of the mentally Ill and child custody evaluations. In 1992, Drew and STS were recognized for its outstanding seminars by receiving the “Excellence in Training” award from the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel.
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