BROTHERHOOD OF SURVIVAL
Recognizing the survivors our systems were never built to see.
A continuing-education talk on male survivors of intimate partner violence, for the professionals who meet them first and most often miss them.
60 TO 120 MINUTES · FOR LEGAL, MEDICAL, CLINICAL, PASTORAL, AND GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONALS
MCLE RECOGNITION AND ELIMINATION OF BIAS, CREDIT PENDING
ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
A community, and a case to carry into professional rooms.
Brotherhood of Survival is a community of men who have survived domestic violence, formed to communicate about it, advocate for one another, and aid each other's recovery. This talk is how that experience reaches the professionals who decide what happens to male survivors, turning what these men learned the hard way into practical changes in how lawyers, clinicians, physicians, clergy, and caseworkers recognize and serve them with honesty and care.
“What I know, I learned twice. Once in training. Once at home.”
THE TALK
What It Means to Survive Intimate Partner Violence, as a Man
A 60- to 120-minute talk for the legal, medical, clinical, pastoral, and government professionals who most often meet male survivors first. Built around the MCLE Recognition and Elimination of Bias category, it adapts by audience, with a tailored practice module for each profession.
It uses male survivors as a lens on a wider problem: the assumptions built into intake questions, credibility judgments, and protective-order decisions can miss anyone who does not fit a system’s default. Recognizing that pattern is the bias-elimination work these professions are asked to do.
Every engagement includes a take home field guide for participants.
What you will leave seeing differently
Why male survivors disappear inside the systems built to help them.
How bias shapes a credibility judgment before a word is spoken.
Why screening built around the default victim misses the people most at risk.
Why closing that blind spot serves everyone, not only men.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Where this shows up in your work
Male survivorship surfaces at the exact decision points your work turns on:
Intake and screening, where the wrong questions screen him out before he is seen, because recognizing a survivor is the first step to serving one.
Credibility, where bias decides who is believed before anyone has spoken.
Protective orders, where a front-line call under Fam. Code §6320 decides who gets protection, and whether coercive control counts as abuse.
Documentation, where the record either holds against a counter-narrative, or post-separation legal abuse rewrites it.
The bias-credit requirement, met with substance rather than a checkbox.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Survivor of intimate partner violence
Advocate, certified domestic violence counselor (Cal. Evid. Code §1037.1), Rainbow Services, trauma-informed care
Facilitator, Next Door Solutions Male Survivor Support Group
Speaker, continuing-education talk for legal, medical, clinical, pastoral, and government audiences
Instructor, Full Sail University (former)
Executive, 20+ years in global gaming
Education, B.A. Yale University
MBA, Loyola Marymount University
Casey Kuczik
Casey Kuczik is a male survivor of intimate partner violence, and an advocate working to make male survivorship visible to the professionals who meet it first.
He is a certified domestic violence counselor under California Evidence Code §1037.1, trained through Rainbow Services in trauma-informed care, and he facilitates the Next Door Solutions Male Survivor Support Group.
He founded Brotherhood of Survival to communicate about, advocate for, and aid the recovery of other men, and to raise awareness of an underrepresented public-health issue.
Through it, he delivers a continuing-education talk for legal, medical, clinical, pastoral, and government audiences on recognizing and serving male survivors.
In his professional life, Casey is a game industry executive with more than twenty years in global gaming, most recently Vice President of Product Strategy at Pixel United.
He is a Yale graduate with a Master of Business Administration in Strategic Management from Loyola Marymount University. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is raising his son.
CONTACT
Inquiries
If you’d like to bring this talk to the professionals who meet male survivors first, let’s start the conversation.
Or email directly: contact@brotherhoodofsurvival.org
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If you’re a man being hurt by your partner, or you’re not sure
Most men never call it abuse.
If you walk on eggshells, feel afraid or controlled in your own home, find yourself cut off from people you love, or are blamed and belittled until you doubt your own memory, that counts.
This is for you. You are not alone, and you are welcome here. You do not have to earn your way in by how bad it got.
In an emergency, call 911. To talk with someone now, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is free, confidential, and available 24/7: 1-800-799-7233 · thehotline.org
To sit with other men who have been through it: the Next Door Solutions Male Survivor Support Group in San Jose (408-279-2962 · nextdoorsolutions.org), or the Rainbow Resilience Foundation (rainbowresiliencefoundation.org), which runs peer groups for male survivors, online and in person, nationwide.
To find a local program that serves men, search DomesticShelters.org.