Center for Protection of Children Board of Advisors
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Monica Silfverskiold Getz
Monica Getz is Founder and President of Coalition for Family Justice, a 501©3 non-profit service and organization to help children and families resolve family conflict, and the National Coalition for Family Justice, a 510©4 to lobby for family- and user-friendly legislation. The Coalition has created ad hoc auxiliaries: "Lawyers, Judges and Consumers for Family Justice" and "Mental and Financial Health Professionals for Family Justice." Ms. Getz is an internationally recognized expert on addictions. She has lectured and trained physicians, judges and corporations all over the world. She founded Swedish Council on Alcoholism and Other Addictions (SCAA) which became the catalyst for the creation of multiple AA-based treatment centers up from zero, when she organized a major, multidisciplinary, international conference in Stockholm in 1984. She simultaneously chaired the National Council on Alcoholism and Other Addictions in Westchester, NY for many years, as well as the League of Women Voters of the Hudson River Towns, NY and the NOW Task Force on Families. She pursued her environmental passion by chairing the UN Earth Society Foundation's Earth Day. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, New York Law Journal and multiple television appearances including a sixty-minute, award-winning documentary. Ms. Getz was educated privately in Sweden and France. After her baccalaureate, she embarked on studies to become a diplomat. She studied law briefly at the University of Lund, Sweden, and continued on an American Foreign Student Fellowship to study Inter-American Affairs, Spanish and Portuguese, concluding her studies at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC. Ms. Getz speaks seven languages. Shortly after her marriage to Stan Getz, Ms. Getz moved to Copenhagen, Denmark where she studied medicine at the Royal Danish Academy. Since then, Ms. Getz has devoted herself to her lifelong interest in addictions and cutting edge solutions for families affected by addictions, eventually including her interest in the law and its responses to families. She is also a member of the National Board of Directors of the Domestic Violence Hotline. Ms. Getz resides in Sweden and at Shadowbrook in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY where she raised five children and where the headquarters of the Coalition is located.