Session I: “Funding for Victim Services: Resources and Grant Development” - June 8, 2021Session II: “Working Together: Effective Victims Services Collaboration”- June 15, 2021Session III: “The Intentional Victims Services Organization: Leading with Vision, Focus, and Clarity”- June 22, 2021
All sessions are from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the "Funding, Collaboration and Vision for Victim Services" Training Series.
Many victim service programs are really feeling the impact and weight of creating sustainability in the midst of uncertainty. Especially when programs are largely reliant on government grants, a threat to one funding source can be a threat to the viability of major programs, if not the entire organization. This session will discuss ways to advocate for funding and to diversify resources for greater sustainability.
Successful collaboration is the core of our work. Relationships can also be complicated, especially when we find ourselves at different ends of advocacy with long-time collaborators. The co-presenters will discuss building both “traditional” and “non-traditional” collaborations and open dialogue about addressing potential conflict with partners.
We are often so busy addressing immediate crises that we rarely have the time to plan for the future in the way that we would like. In this session, we will take off our firefighter gear and spend time in planning mode. We will troubleshoot the obstacles to pro-active planning, spend time discussing how to better highlight responses to sexual violence, and review tools for prioritizing strategies to address both domestic and sexual violence.
Janeen has worked for non-profit organizations for the past 22+ years, with her focus for the last 8 years being on capacity building, leadership development, and change management. She started out working at a DV/SA shelter in Southwest Virginia in the 1990s (Women’s Resource Center in Radford, VA). Janeen is a champion of strength-based coaching, creating connections between organizations and people, addressing issues around equity and inclusion, and organizational development. She has worked at or volunteered for a total of five DV/SA organizations, including the statewide coalition in North Carolina (NCCADV), where she was most recently the Director of Programming. Janeen is the principal consultant at Marquis-Duggan Non-Profit Solutions, which she founded in 2008 and named in honor of her mother and grandmother.
Margarita attended Georgetown University where she majored in English and minored in Women’s Studies. She obtained her law degree from George Washington University School of Law where she participated in the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, representing victims/survivors of domestic violence obtaining orders of protection from the DV Court in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating from law school, Margarita was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to create a legal clinic for indigent Spanish speaking mental health consumers in New York City. After this, Margarita went on to serve the primarily Latina/o immigrant population of Washington Heights/Inwood at the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC). At NMIC, Margarita defended tenants against evictions and represented survivors of domestic violence in family court and housing proceedings as well as filing DV-based immigration petitions. She then became Program Director at Day One, where she oversaw the Community Education, Peer Leadership, Social and Legal Services programs offered for teen and young adult survivors of intimate partner violence. She joined the Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence (Now Mayor’s Office to End Gender-Based Violence) in October 2013 as the Deputy Director of the Bronx Family Justice Center and became Executive Director in January 2015. She was selected as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of 2016 by the Hispanic Coalition of New York. She joined VIP as Deputy Executive Director in August 2017, and became Executive Director in July 2018.
