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Each year in April, the Office for Victims of Crime helps lead communities throughout the country in its annual observances of National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week (NCVRW), which will be observed in 2022 on April 24-30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s theme is \u201cRights, Access, Equity for all victims\u201d. This event is open to the public (advance registration required). Speakers<\/strong><\/em>: Sarah Palermo<\/strong>. Her daughter, Lindsay Kyle, was 26 years old when she was killed by a drunk Carrie Swearingen<\/strong> is an Attica graduate, Registered Nurse and proud mom of two sons. She is ***This day is sponsored in part by Batavia City Police Benevolent Association, Genesee Presented by the Criminal Justice Day 2022 Partners: Cost: $10.00* per person \/ $5.00* per student or senior (62+)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Press release Each year in April, the Office for Victims of Crime helps lead communities throughout the country in its annual observances of National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week (NCVRW), which will be observed in 2022 on April 24-30. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cRights, Access, Equity for all victims\u201d. This event \u2026<\/p>\n
Criminal Justice Day 2022: Rights, Access, Equity for all victims<\/strong>
Monday, April 25, 2022
8:00 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
Genesee Community College
Conable Technology Building, Room T102
1 College Road, Batavia NY<\/strong>
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Brenda McQuillan<\/strong>, PhD, LCSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Roberts Wesleyan
College in Rochester, NY, where she serves as the Program Director for the MSW program and
Co-Chair for the Department of Social Work. She also works part time as a therapist for the
Justice for Children Advocacy Center in Batavia, where she provides mental health treatment for
children who have experienced significant trauma, most often-sexual abuse. She has over 20
years of experience as a social worker across multiple settings including a school district, foster
care agency, child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic, juvenile detention center, and
mental health clinic.
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driver in 2003. She is a member of the Ontario Highway Traffic Safety Board. She has spoken
at Victim Impact Panels in eight counties as well as high schools in those counties. She has been
an activist and speaker for the last 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a survivor of domestic abuse by her (ex) husband who entered her place of employment in North
Carolina and shot her twice in the head. She credits God and her family and friends for getting
her through it all and allowing her to be here today to share her story and, hopefully, give someone
else strength to be saved from a bad relationship.
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Community College, GCASA, Genesee County Deputy Sheriffs\u2019 Association, Our Lady of
Batavia Knights of Columbus, and YWCA of Genesee County<\/em>. ***
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Batavia City Police, Justice for Children Advocacy Center, Genesee Community College,
Genesee County Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week Committee, Genesee\/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (GCASA), Genesee County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Genesee County Mental Health, Genesee County Office for the Aging, Genesee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Genesee Justice, Mental Health Association of Genesee and Orleans Counties, and YWCA of Genesee County.
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Registration is limited to the first 80 responses. Please register by April 18th
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For registration details: Contact Genesee Justice at 344-2550 ext. 3929
Or e-mail sharon.burns@co.genesee.ny.us<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"