As a Department of Criminal Justice Services, Victim Services Section Coordinator, Ms. Foster manages the statewide Victim Witness Grant Program. In this role, she plans, allocates, and monitors state and federal funding to local and statewide organizations to ensure and expand crime victim services across Virginia in a manner consistent with federal and state guidelines. She provides technical assistance and consultation regarding administration of the Victims of Crime Act funded Victim Witness Grant Program (VWGP).  Ms. Foster also provides guidance and training to subgrantees and other criminal justice system professionals throughout Virginia on VWGP management of services to crime victims according to the Virginia's Crime Victim and Witness Rights Act.   

Gleibys Gonzalez is the Sexual Assault Forensic Services Coordinator at the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, a position created in § 9.1-191 of the Virginia Code. In her role, Gleibys works with forensic nursing programs around the Commonwealth to enhance, expand, and increase the visibility of sexual assault forensic nursing programs, which are an important and vital part of our communities’ efforts to treat and heal the trauma associated with sexual violence. Gleibys has a JD from American University, Washington College of Law, where she served on the Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law and co-president of the Women’s Law Association. After law school, Gleibys worked at the Baha’i Office of Public Affairs in Washington DC as the Representative for the Advancement of Women. As the AOW representative, Gleibys worked in collaboration with other NGOs to advance treaties, legislation, and policy that focused on women’s rights, such as the Convention on the Elimination on all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Violence Against Women Act, and the International Violence Against Women Act. Gleibys has also served as an advocate at the Sexual Assault Resource Agency in Charlottesville and Supervisor of the advocacy team.

Andi Martin is the Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Program Coordinator.  In this role, she administers the Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) , which supports the development and enhancement of sexual assault and intimate partner violence services across the Commonwealth. She also serves on various statewide working groups to expand these services.  Prior to her role at DCJS, Andi worked at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as the Domestic Violence Lethality Assessment Program Coordinator.  She has over twenty years of direct victims' services experience in prosecutorial victim assistance, law enforcement-based victim assistance, appellate victim notification, and victims' rights compliance.  Andi received her master's degree in Criminal Justice from Virginia Commonwealth University and an undergraduate degree from Mary Washington Collage (now the University of Mary Washington) in Political Science. 

Mrs. Williams started with DCJS in April 2018 as a Victims Services Program Specialist or Grant Monitor. In September 2020, she transitioned to the role of VSTOP and VSDVVF Grant Program Coordinator. Her primary role is to provide oversight and management of state and federal grant programs and projects under the VSTOP and VSDVVF funding opportunitites. She does this by engaging in grant program coordination, providing technical assistance, training, data collection and federal performance reporting. Tierra holds a Bachelors of Social Work from Mary Baldwin University (College) and a Masters of Social Work from Temple University. 

Ms. Bassett, Victims Services Grant Program Specialist, monitors grant compliance for Sexual Assault Services, Victim/Witness Assistance, V-STOP, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund and VOCA New Initiatives Victim Assistance grant programs. She provides training and technical assistance to the programs and assists in maintaining procedures and guidelines for victim related grant administration to include data collections for statewide and federal reporting.

Bunny Chidester is a Victims Services Program Specialist, monitoring compliance and providing technical assistance for programs and localities in the Western region funded by the Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP), Victim Witness Grant Program (VWGP), Virginia Services, Training Officers, Prosecution (V-STOP), Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund (VSDVVF) and the Victim Services Grant Program (VSGP).  Bunny has worked in the field of Human Services since 1996, originally in child abuse prevention and mentoring young parents and teens. She has been an advocate for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, with a passion for Primary Prevention work and youth advocacy. She developed and coordinated a 6-year peer mentoring program for 8th-12th grade students in King George, VA.  Bunny worked as a contract trainer for VDH, JMU, and the VA Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for 7 years.  In 2013, the Action Alliance awarded her their Blue Ribbon Catalyst Award for Child and Youth Advocacy.  She is certified as a facilitator for the Richmond Peace Education Center’s (RPEC) Conflict Resolution, Help Increase the Peace, and Healing and Rebuilding Our Community programs. RPEC awarded Bunny their 2018 Peacemaker of the Year award for her work with youth and her commitment to social justice.  She comes to DCJS having worked from 2016-2020 as a DV Program Specialist at the VDSS Office of Family Violence, and 2020-2021 at SAFE in Chesterfield as a Prevention Specialist/Grant Coordinator.  

As a Victims Services Grant Program Specialist, Chad monitors grant compliance for Sexual Assault Services, Victim/Witness Assistance, V-STOP, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund, and VOCA VSGP grant programs. He provides training and technical assistance to the programs and also assists in maintaining procedures and guidelines for victim-related grants administration, to include data collection for statewide and federal reporting. Chad covers the Shenandoah Valley territory for the Victims Services section's grant programs. He received his Bachelor's Degree in history from the University of Virginia, and his Juris Doctorate from the Wake Forest University School of Law.

As a Victim Services Grant Program Specialist, Erin monitors grant compliance for Sexual Assault Services, Victim/Witness Assistance, V-STOP, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund and VOCA grant programs. She provides training and technical assistance to the programs and also assists in maintaining procedures and guidelines for victim-related grants administration, to include data collection for statewide and federal reporting. Erin has a masters degree in social work with almost 20 years of experience in grants administration and nonprofit management and is a Licensed Massage Therapist that currently serves on the Governor’s Advisory Board for Massage Therapy.

Chrissy Smith, Victims Services Grant Program Specialist, monitors grant compliance for Sexual Assault Services, Victim/Witness Assistance, V-STOP, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund and Victim Services grant programs.   She provides training and technical assistance to the programs and assists in maintaining procedures and guidelines for victim-related grant administrations.  Prior to her role at DCJS, Chrissy worked at the Virginia Attorney General’s Office as the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Advocate working on eliminating Virginia’s Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Project.  Chrissy spent the first thirteen years of her career as an Advocate in Henrico Victim Witness Assistance Program.