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| About NAFFHistory
Mission Statement Board
of Directors Advisory
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History
Mission StatementNAFF was created to serve the following purposes: 1) To bring attention to the existence of governmental and non-governmental mind control; slavery; and torture perpetrated in the United States and Canada. 2) To educate the public about the special recovery needs of victims and survivors. 3) To develop and maintain a living memorial garden - the Garden of Healing - to honor victims' and survivors' traumas and strengths, and to honor those who support them in their recovery processes.
Board of DirectorsKathleen Sullivan, BSW - founder and president
Kathleen is a recovering, pro-active traumatic abuse survivor. Her intensive recovery began in the summer of 1989. Although she was diagnosed with DID/MPD in the past, she was extensively tested several years ago, and did not exhibit symptoms of any dissociative disorder. Although she considers herself to be "fairly normal and boring" now, and chooses to focus on the present instead of the past, she is quick to acknowledge that she expects to continue growing, learning and "becoming" every day of the rest of her life. She attributes many of her deepest life changes to therapy and to her social work studies at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and Knoxville. As a social work student, she has learned to deeply value and respect the varied cultures, ethnicities, religions, and lifestyles that exist in the Chattanooga area and beyond. She has also learned, as a social worker, to focus on each person's strengths and attributes instead of focusing on what appears to be "wrong" or "missing". Although Kathleen did not feel safe to express her softer side in the past, she is now excited to be able to express, and be, her true self. After having worked consistently to therapeutically "feel and own" split-off grief, sadness, loss, anger, and pain, she is delighted to feel and experience joy, love, peace, empathy, and gratitude. Whereas she struggled extensively in the past with chronic depression and anxiety, she now feels energetic and hopeful about the future. She especially enjoys being with people who prefer to be their authentic selves. She calls them "WYSIWIGS - what you see is what you get". Each day, she thanks God for having preserved her sanity and her life, for bringing genuine people into her life, and for having given her the safety and opportunity to choose who, and what, she will be for the remainder of her life. As a student at the University of Tennessee, she is working towards her master's degree in social work. She hopes to specialize in clinical work with abuse and trauma survivors, and with several other populations, after graduation. In 2003 she took a year off from school to write her published autobiography: Unshackled: A Survivor's Story of Mind Control. Kathleen lives at home with her husband, Bill in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. Soddy Daisy is approximately 30 minutes north of the city of Chattanooga. A former Master Gardener, Kathleen enjoys working in NAFF's Garden of Healing, landscaping at home, attending educational conferences and workshops, participating in church, reading and listening to books on tape, "sitting and doing absolutely nothing", playing with the Sullivans' dogs, and spending quality time with friends and caring relatives. She also maintains NAFF's extensive website. Dianne Capers, M.A., M.S. - secretary Dianne is a board-eligible national certified marriage and family therapist. Her areas of specialization and interest are sexual abuse, healing and therapy; marriage and therapy; domestic violence; and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). She counsels from the Christian perspective, but is equally comfortable and respectful working with counselees who have other points of view. After several years of leading the Sexual Abuse Crisis Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she is in private practice in Chattanooga and also in Ringgold, Georgia. She is also a survivor of childhood domestic violence and divorce. After years of seeking freedom from her own inner pain, she loves sharing that healing with others so that they, too, might be free. Her passions are music, worship and family. Bill Sullivan - treasurer
Bill is a childhood trauma survivor and a survivor of U.S. government mind-control, probably beginning with involuntary involvement in the CIA's Bluebird project during his early years in the U.S. Army. He enlisted at age 15 and received his basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC. He received "jump school" training at Ft. Benning, Georgia while stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. 28 of his total of 30 years of service in the Army were served in Airborne. Having completed over 300 parachute jumps, he became a master parachutist. Bill served one tour in front-lines infantry in Korea and three in Vietnam. Beginning in late 1963, he worked stateside under Operations and Intelligence Officer, Major David Hackworth in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, which went to Vietnam in July, 1965. Bill worked in Operations (S-3) and in Intelligence (S-2) for a total of 2-1/2 years. Returning to Fort Campbell in 1966, he worked mostly as an analyst in intelligence. He volunteered to go back to Vietnam in 1967. As an Intel sergeant, he was assigned to the 187th Airborne Infantry, which was in the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. During that time, he was promoted to Master Sergeant (E-8). Shortly thereafter, he was selected to become a First Sergeant of one of the infantry companies within that same battalion. As a result of extensive combat experience during that tour in Vietnam, he earned an Army Commendation Medal (with "V" for valor), a Bronze Star (with "V" for Valor), the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart. He returned to the Army base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky for one year, then volunteered for one more tour in Vietnam. This time, he was assigned to Operations and Intelligence in the 4th Infantry Division. While in Vietnam, he left that division after requesting to be reassigned to the 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade as First Sergeant in one of the infantry units. He extended his 12-month tour of duty so that he could return, after a total 16 months, with his unit to Fort Campbell. At Fort Campbell, he was selected as First Sergeant of a basic training unit for new recruits who were expected to serve in Vietnam. After completing that assignment, he was promoted to Sergeant Major (E-9). He was then selected to be the Commandant of the Retrain and Reclassification School of the Noncommissioned Officer Academy at Fort Campbell. Sgt. Major Sullivan designed the school's programs and set up the structured schedule of handpicked personnel from throughout the division to train noncommissioned officers who were stationed throughout the US and overseas. These NCOs needed reclassification due to excess military occupational skills (MOS). Once approved, the Army used the Academy as a template to structure other NCO schools throughout the US and overseas to retrain Army personnel to be classified for new job statuses. Bill was then selected to be an Army ROTC instructor at the University of Georgia in Athens where he served two more years, retiring on July 31, 1978 after 30 years of service. Having served a total of 51 months of ground combat, Bill received many other awards and decorations including two awards of the combat infantry badge. Having received 100% disability status from the Veterans Administration, Bill is fully retired. He is responsible for overseeing the maintenance of our living memorial garden. Because he especially enjoys riding his mower, we call him the "lawn ranger." Fred H. Wright, Ph.D. Fred has been practicing in Chattanooga as psychologist since 1975. A Diplomate in Counseling Psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology), he is also a Diplomate in Clinical Hypnosis (American Board of Examiners in Psychological Hypnosis) and a Certified Sex Therapist (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists). He is a also member of the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. As a human rights activist, Fred has visited a total of 52 countries to-date, including 15 trips to Europe, 3 to South America, 3 to Central America, 2 to Africa, 4 to Asia, and 1 to Australia. During those trips Fred has taught, conducted research, and studied the subjects of mental health and peace. Fred is listed in American Men & Women of Science, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Personalities of the South, Dictionary of International Biography, National Social Directory, International Directory of Distinguished Psychotherapists, and International Who's Who in Sexology. Nancy Wright, MA Nancy has been married to Fred Wright, "a spectacular man," for 56 years. A proud mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, she earned two master's degrees in theater and education. Nancy and Fred met as teenagers. (Fred reports that he pursued Nancy for several years before she agreed to marry him.) Three months after the wedding, Nancy was severely injured in a car accident and was told that she would be paralyzed for life and couldn't have children. Determined to regain the use of her body, she developed a technique, Preparation for Movement, that was later used to help other people who were paralyzed. She became physically mobile and went on to have children and live a full life. She taught several semesters at the University of Georgia in Athens and studied one year for a Doctorate degree in theater, although she did not complete her studies. She founded the Dance Theater Workshop in Chattanooga, Tennessee and also set up the Oak Street Playhouse, Chattanooga's first theater in a church. She taught choreography and worked with 17 musical productions in Chattanooga. Nancy also developed a program, Arts and Means of Communication. Together with Fred, Nancy traveled to many countries and helped set-up and facilitate Children's International Summer Villages, beginning in Gulfport, Louisiana and Chattanooga. Through this unique educational, experiential program, the Wrights "helped several thousand children to have 'international friendship-making experiences.'" In Germany, they worked with older teenagers from both East and West Germany while again emphasizing friendship-making experiences. To help them reconcile with one another and honor their experiences, Nancy rewrote the musical, West Side Story. They named her new production East-West Side Story. Nancy also taught various overseas classes, including in China, Brazil and Europe. Eleven years ago, Nancy suffered a massive stroke that caused partial paralysis. Although told by one medical professional that she had the "worst stroke he has ever seen," she miraculously retained her memories and her keen mental faculties. Determined that Nancy continue traveling overseas (one of her favorite activities), Fred regularly arranges for her to travel with him in her wheelchair. They have since visited many more countries. Nancy has been involved in Ping-Pong tournaments as part of the Olympics for the elderly, winning 3 gold and 1 bronze medal. Since her stroke, Nancy has become deeply reflective and is full of gratitude for what she has experienced in life: "The greatest treasures are inside our hearts and minds. Treasures are life experiences with one another, and holding onto the memories of those experiences. Every one has taught us about humanity, peace, love, and the foolishness of warfare." Although Nancy is not a survivor of criminally perpetrated traumas, she is a trauma survivor and considers herself a thriver. She emphasizes that Fred and her children are survivors too, as they have experienced difficult times with her. Hal Pepinsky, Ph.D., J.D. Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, Hal is the author of many books, including The Geometry of Violence and Democracy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991) and A Criminologist's Quest for Peace (2000). He is co-editor with Richard Quinney of Criminology as Peacemaking. Hal's special areas of concern are: criminology and criminal justice, peacemaking, violence against children, and healing processes.
Advisory BoardClaire Reeves, CCDC - chairperson
A long-term advocate for children's safety, Claire is the founder and president of Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (MASA). Her recently published book, Childhood: It Should Not Hurt! is a valuable resource for anyone who is responsible for the care of children. To learn more about her book, go to http://childhooditshouldnothurt.com.
ServicesOther than this website, NAFF provides the following services:
How to Contact UsMailing address NAFF,
PO Box 1328, Soddy Daisy TN 37384-1328. Please include "NAFF" in
the subject line.
Bylaws and Financial StatementTo obtain copies of NAFF's bylaws and our most recent financial statement, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope (2 stamps, please) to the mailing address shown above.
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