On April 20th Victim Advocate Jennifer Wylie was recognized at New Hampshire's Crime Victims' Rights Day. She was presented with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center 2010 Visionary Voice Award. This award recognizes the creativity, hard work, and dedication of individuals around the country working to address and prevent sexual violence. Winners are selected by their respective state, tribal, or territory anti-sexual violence coalitions and represent a wide range of individuals doing this critical work at the local level.

Jennifer is the Clinical Director at Bridges: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support in Nashua. She has worked on behalf of victims of sexual assault for more than twenty years. She has been involved in social justice agencies in all areas of sexual violence prevention. She has worked as an outreach worker on the streets, alongside police officers as a victim advocate, as a rape crisis advocate, in hospitals and as a consultant. Jennifer believes in a collaborative approach to ending sexual violence in our communities.

In the past 10 years Jennifer has worked at Bridge where she has led the agency in initiatives such as screening teens for dating and sexual violence in our local teen health center; facilitating support groups for children who have been sexually abused and also for child witnesses of domestic violence in partnership with the local counseling agency; partnering with local culturally focused agencies to expand our cultural sensitivity to survivors; enhancing our local child advocacy center services; providing support groups to teen girls in the local high schools; implementing a juvenile batterers program with the local mental health center; and mentorship training to her coworkers.

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Nashua Telegraph: Bridges official wins award for work combating sexual violence