Tom Duffy

Tom Duffy

Community outreach -- Big Brother Program

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  • About me

    President of Steeights2.0 Founder of Prison SMART Foundation. Over 5 thousand Clients and casework. Stress and Anger Management specialist. Coach and Consultant, an expert problem solver.

  • Education

    • Cape Cod Community college satellite program with Boston University.

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      Obsevational Study Family School

      Activities and Societies: Spent 6 weeks workign with three young trouble boys dealing with deveorce in an after school program. I started out with a wish to become a adolescent psychologist but after my third year I was fascinated with the centuries of success that the East had in dealing with emotion. I hoped on a plane and flew to Bangalore and spent 14 days in silence with His Holiness Shri Shri Ravi Shankar. From that blossomed the Prison SMART program. I began to study directly with various psych teams working in various Prisons and learned hands on the dynamics of the human mind. Year after year the experience… Show more I started out with a wish to become a adolescent psychologist but after my third year I was fascinated with the centuries of success that the East had in dealing with emotion. I hoped on a plane and flew to Bangalore and spent 14 days in silence with His Holiness Shri Shri Ravi Shankar. From that blossomed the Prison SMART program. I began to study directly with various psych teams working in various Prisons and learned hands on the dynamics of the human mind. Year after year the experience grew deeper and richer and in 1999 I met Bill Richardson one of the architects of the Boot Camp structures in LA Probation. I was so so blessed to be trained buy him and to learn the really dynamics of handling and supporting troubled youth. Show less

    • 3 year intensive under Bill Richardson LA Probation

      2000 - 2014
      Stress Management and Juvinile Boot camp Management

      I worked with LA Probation for 3.5 years as an Anger Management Specialist at Challenger Memorial Youth Center. Camps Smith, Scobe, Resnick and other camps in the system. I Have also worked in over 22 US Prisons developing programs and training instructors. In 2012 I did a program in all the prisons in South Africa. Durbin Cape Town Johannesburg. I was blessed to travel to Malawi and Botswana to do programs there as well.

    • Body Alinement Training

      2013 - 2014
      Health and Wellness, General Module 1-3 and Vortex

      An amazing modality of balancing the body mind and other systems. Body Alignment, is a brilliant system of energy healing that can be use as a form of body-centered psychotherapy.

    • Barnstable County Sherrifs Office

      1994 - 1997
      Case work management Criminal Justice and Corrections

      Activities and Societies: Staff Volunteer Program presenter at the Chemical Dependency Unit Staff Volunteer Stress Management Councilor Shock Unit. Staff Volunteer at the Cape and Islands Youth Congress. It was at the Barstable County jail that I learned the ins and outs of working in a prison. The staff there is the best on the country. Working in the Shock Unit I learned the basics of boot camps and how to maneuver through the system.

    • Art of Living Teacher Training

      1991 - 1994
      Senior Instructor Stress Management and Coping Skills
    • Shoulyn Kempo

      1984 - 1987
      3rd Degree Balck belt Martial Arts Eastern Phylosaphy

      Just a wonderful way to move energy.Was blessed to study with a variety of brilliant master instructors. Steve Spang, Mike Brown and many others.

  • Experience

    • First Parish Brewster (Para Mynistry Program)

      Sept 1983 - Jun 1986
      Community outreach -- Big Brother Program

      I worked with reverend James Robinson on a volunteer community service project. We would meet with elderly or sick members of the community. I was driven to start my own big Brother program and worked with two young men.

    • Self-employed

      Sept 1991 - now
      Founder of Prison SMART Foundation

      President of Steeights2.0 Founder of Prison SMART Foundation. Over 5 thousand Clients and casework. Stress and Anger Management specialist. Coach and Consultant, an expert problem solver.

    • Executive Director for prison SMART Foundation

      May 1995 - Feb 2003
      Executive Director

      I co founded the Prison SMART Foundation as a service project for the Art of Living Foundations Prison outreach and Prison Reform initiative. Service is a very powerful human value. It was my great honor to develop the project expansion plan for the United States. Starting alone in 1993 I was blessed to watch the teaching team expand to over 22 instructors each working on there own project. When I left the agency in 2003 we had brought over 20 thousand participant through the US program. Prison SMART is now in many countries with many thousands of participants. Show less

    • Hawaii Department of Correction

      Feb 1998 - May 1999
      Cognative Skills Instructor

      We brought the Prison SMART program into the Hawaii prison system. Prison SMART was a stress management module in cognitive skills program.

    • LA Probation

      Feb 2000 - Jun 2003
      Anger Management Specialist

      I worked with Bill Richardson of LA Programs Violence Alternative Program (VAP). We worked with LA probation's most violent 707B offenders. I was trained in Gang intervention and learned the nuts and bolts of the Boot Camp structure.

    • Grief Navigators

      Jan 2013 - Jul 2022
      President of Grief Navigators

      An online resource for men facing grief. WWW.GriefNavigators.Com(Its Amazing what you pick up--- when you learn to let go) I offer support to Men and families facing Grief. I bring a 17 human service background to the table. And I have a team of specialist that are brought in to meet each clients needs. All of this is done using video conferencing software. Grief Navigators maps your strategy forward.WWW.GriefNavigators.Com

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Senior Professor

      Issued by Art of Living Foundation
      Art of Living FoundationAssociated with Tom Duffy