DOUGLAS BUTLER

Douglas Butler attended Oakland Public Schools and graduated from Oakland’s Castlemont High School. He attended Merritt Community College and Cal State University East Bay. Butler was a Law Enforcement Officer for ten years and graduated from both the Concord and Oakland Police Academies. Douglas Butler was also a consumer of Correctional Services in California for over twenty (20) years.

During Butler’s incarceration, he acquired a number of certificates, laudatory Chronos and Letters of Achievement for education, social service training and facilitating classroom activities and workshops. Butler attended Patton College at San Quentin State Prison and received a Certificate of Rehabilitation from the Prison Insight Project that is located in Marin County.

Douglas Butler is currently the Director of the Men of Valor Academy in Oakland, Ca. The academy provides residential treatment life skills workshops and job training for men returning to the community from incarceration. The academy is highly regarded by the California Department of Corrections Parole Division.

Butler has been trained to teach Impact concepts and principles for both the youth and adult populations. He also is a facilitator for anti-addiction and fatherhood classes and is a Breaking Barriers Facilitator for juveniles and adults.