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"We need to wake people up to the attitudes and actions that continue to keep victims at risk and our cities, towns and cultural communities unsafe." ~ Paulo Pinto, MPA, Executive Director, MAPS - Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers
JDI presents Visionary Voice Award to Becky Lockwood
April 29, 2013
- On the last day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Jane Doe Inc. will present the 2013 Visionary Voice Award to Becky Lockwood, Associate Director of the Center for Women and Community, for her leadership and dedication to creating a world free of sexual violence. The award is one of 23 nationwide being given by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) in 2013.
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Tsarnaev: History of Domestic Violence?
April 19, 2013
- Reports of a history of domestic violence by one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects raises red flags for advocates.
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JDI member program director receives national award
April 19, 2013
- Jane Doe Inc. nominated Becky Lockwood, Associate Director of Counseling and Rape Crisis Services of the Center for Women & Community to receive one of this year's Visionary Voice award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). Award presentation will take place on April 30, 2013 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus.
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Mintz Attorneys and Firm receive Timilty Advocate for Justice Award
April 9, 2013
- Susan M. Finegan and Peter Biagetti, Members of the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., will receive the inaugural Kelly Timilty Advocate for Justice Award. Ms. Finegan and Mr. Biagetti, along with the law firm, will be honored at the Kelly Timilty “It’s Your Business Breakfast” on Thursday, May 16th at the Algonquin Club in Boston.
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Survivors Falling Through the Budget Gap
April 1, 2013
- Unmet needs fuel JDI's request for additional state funding. JDI and hundreds of advocates from its member programs will converge on Beacon Hill on April 4, 2013, to advocate for funding that supports the life-saving and life-changing services provided by community-based sexual and domestic violence programs.
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Barrios & Conley to lead hundreds of men in taking pledge to work to end violence against women
March 1, 2013
- Co-chairs Barrios and Conley prepare for the 6th annual statewide White Ribbon Day Campaign sponsored by Jane Doe Inc.. Campaign calls upon men and boys to wear a white ribbon and join in taking the Massachusetts White Ribbon Day Pledge to be part of solution in ending violence against women.
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Western Massachusetts Homicide Case Highlights Need for Community Wide Education on LGBQT Domestic Violence
February 27, 2013
- JDI and its member programs The Network/La Red and Safe Passage provide comment and analysis in light of trial of of Cara Rintala for the murder of her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala.
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