PrintChild and Family Safety Credentials
Tom Patire Group; Personal Safety Instructor, specializing in child safety, teen safety, family safety and adult personal safety
Co-presenter of the BULLYGUARDTM School Bully Prevention program
Presenter of Early Childhood Injury Prevention courses
Presenter of Child Abduction prevention courses
Presenter of Teen Self-Escape and Violence Prevention courses
Presenter of Family Safety courses, teaching the family to act as a unit to be safe
Presenter of Adult Self-Escape and Rape Prevention training courses
Child and Family Safety Honors and Awards
2007 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame; Personal Safety Educator of the Year
Online Bullying Expert for WorkingMom.com
Martial Arts, Self-Defense Credentials
Founder, Grandmaster, and Executive Director of Family Martial Arts Academy, Highland Park, NJ
Founder, New Jersey Continuous Contact Karate League, a full contact competition league for stand-up fighters
CDT (Compliance-Direction-Takedown) Advanced Tactical Master Instructor; tactical control, third party protection, weapon disarming
International Training Commission; Executive Protection Specialist
Executive Protection Agent for State of the Art Security
Bill ‘Superfoot’ Wallace; 6th Degree Black Belt and Full Instructor of the Superfoot Kickboxing System
Martial Arts, Self-Defense Honors and Awards
2009 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame: Continuous Full Contact Karate Grandmaster of the Year
2009 Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors: Continuance of Excellence as a Goodwill Ambassador to the Martial Arts
2009 World Karate Union Hall of Fame; American Freestyle Karate Grandmaster of the Year
2006 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame; special award recipient – Grandmaster of the Decade
2006 Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Fame; Excellence in Teaching Martial Arts
2005 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame; Kickboxing Grandmaster of the Year
2004 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame; Grandmaster of the Year (overall)
Other Honors and Awards
2008 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Bronze Achievement award (fundraising for diabetes research)
2007 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Silver Achievement Award (fundraising for diabetes research)
2006 Highland Park NJ Mayor’s Office; Joel and Yvonne Levy are named ‘Highland Park Treasures’ by proclamation of the Mayor
2004 Iparenting.com; December’s Dad of the Month
Education
1994 Rutgers University Graduate School of Education; M.Ed. Language Education
1989 Binghamton University; B.A. English (Literature and Rhetoric)
Education Credentials
NJ State Certified Teacher of English as a Second Language, all levels
NJ State Certified Teacher Elementary K-8, all subjects
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Youth Development Specialist
Thirteen Year veteran teacher of the NJ Public School Systems
