Career
She spent fifteen years in these and other organisations before leaving them in 1975 and resolving to make more information about what she saw as "cults" available to the general public. Groenveld first began providing information about groups she referred to as cults to the public and counselling affected individuals in 1979. January founded the Cult Awareness and Information Centre (CAIC), in 1990.
Groenveld"s CAIC website was started in 1991.
Groenveld first met Steven Hassan in 1993, when she brought him to Brisbane, Australia from the United States for a seminar. Hassan educated Groenveld as to the "serious potential for doubt and lack of veracity in satanic ritual abuse stories".
In 1999 a Brisbane tabloid, the Sunday Mail interviewed Groenveld on the likelihood that more destructive cults would show up in Australia during 1999 before the new Millennium. Groenveld"s work has also been cited in Snow"s Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers.
