| Community: Crime Survivors Awards Recipients Show they Believe All Victims of Crime have the Right & Responsibility to Survive Dear Pepperdine Libboard, Crime Survivors Awards Recipients Show they Believe All Victims of Crime have the Right & Responsibility to Survive Public safety personnel and Victim Service Providers were recognized at the 12th Annual Crime Survivors Gratitude Gala Hopeful Healing for Survivors Awards Banquet. The event was sold out with barely 500 attendees at the Anaheim Marriott on July 31, 2015.
The award recipients rescued children and women from physical, emotional and sexual abuse, arrested or helped incarcerate cruel human traffickers, taught self-defense classes to vulnerable people, and coordinated help and resources for countless victims who are now survivors of crime.
Crime Survivors Founder and CEO Patricia Wenskunas was joined by numerous survivors of crime; Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey; San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos; Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairman and 3rd District Supervisor Todd Spitzer; and Orange County Bureau Chief Eileen Frere, ABC7 Eyewitness News. Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnelll was the keynote speaker.
At the 2015 Hopeful Healing for Survivors awards banquet, the following people who have taken extraordinary measures to help victims of crime in need of care and guidance were honored:
ABOVE AND BEYOND AWARD
California Highway Patrol
Officer, Daryl Hansen
Officer, Timothy Montoya
California Highway Patrol
Officer, Florentino Olivera
Garden Grove Police Department
Sergeant, Carl Whitney
Detective, Luis Payan
Detective, Pete Garcia
Detective, John Cassaccia
Detective, Dennis Wardle
CSO, Steve Lucas
Cadet, Shelby Keuilian
Irvine Police Department
Officer, Sean-Paul Crawford
Irvine Police Department
Officer, Jenny Lindsey
Laguna Beach Police Department
Officer, Zach Martinez
Long Beach Police Department
Investigator, Leticia Carranza
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Detective, Alex Smith
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Sergeant, Theresa Dawson
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Detective, Dina Black
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Detective, Gary Furuyama
Detective, Christopher Hicks
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Investigator, Jose Medrano
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Detective, Mechaelle-Ann "Missy" Willis
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Commander, Mike Parker
Los Angeles Police Department
Media Relations and Community Affairs Group (MCG)
Community Relations Section (CRS)
Community Outreach
Los Angeles District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Victim Services Representative, Leilani Brunt
Los Angeles District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Victim Services Representative II, Ivonne Samaniego
Los Angeles District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Victim Services Representative, Cheryl Ajirogi
Orange County Sheriff's Department
Investigator, Sandra Longnecker
Orange County Sheriff's Department
Deputy, Merry Hudson
Orange County Sheriff's Department
Deputy, Bryan Larson
Riverside County District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance Supervisor – Division of Victim Services, Debbie Anderson
Riverside County District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Division of Victim Services, Melissa Hernandez
San Bernardino County District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Chief, Bureau of Victim Services, Flerida Alarcón
St. John Neumaan Church
Carlos Carney
John Gremer
John Erdag
George Velarde
Community Organization of the Year
For Families Supervisor, Deborah Brunn, MS, LMFT
Community Policing Organization of the Year
Westminster Police Department
Citizen of the Year
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Diana Cortez
AND
Detective Michael Silva
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Civilian of the Year
Addison Esson
Victim Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award
Los Angeles District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance
Director, Donna Wills
Military Veteran Survivor of the Year
Rowena Darvin-Varab
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Photos from the event:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1108802259148145.1073741840.157707694257611&type=3
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Resources for Survivors of Violent Crime in Los Angeles City
http://www.crimesurvivors.org//LA-City-Resource-Guide-2014.pdf
Resources for Survivors of Violent Crime in Los Angeles County
http://www.crimesurvivors.org/page/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-CSI-Resource-Guide-LA-County.pdf
Resources for Survivors of Violent Crime in Orange County
http://www.crimesurvivors.org/page/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CSResourceGuide.pdf
Resources for Survivors of Violent Crime in San Diego
http://www.crimesurvivors.org//San-Diego-Resource-Guide-2014.pdf
Pending: Riverside, San Bernardino and 8 other Counties
Crime Survivors
http://www.crimesurvivors.org/page/
Marsy's Law is the California Crime Victims Bill of Rights
https://oag.ca.gov/victimservices/content/bill_of_rights
http://da.lacounty.gov/marsys-law
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The mission of Crime Survivors is to provide hope and healing to victims and survivors of crime through advocacy and the support of resources, information, and empowerment from the critical time after a crime occurs through the challenges and successes of surviving and thriving.
Crime Survivors Values:
• We believe that no one should feel abandoned or alone and that every person is deserving of love, respect and dignity.
• We believe that the best way to help others with hope and healing is to work in partnership with our community, law enforcement, elected leaders, and members of the media.
• We believe that all of us together can lift each other out of darkness and into the light of a restored heart and life.
• We believe that every broken heart, every hurt, every wound can be healed with love and a strong community of support.
• We believe in hopeful healing.
• We believe that with faith, there is always hope.
"Empowering Hopeful Healing for Survivors"
Crime Survivors is a Southern California-based, non-profit organization (Tax ID 30-0229425<tel:30-0229425>) which brings victims, families and survivors together with law enforcement agencies and victim service providers, to empower them.
You are welcome to join in supporting victims of crime in the hope to help with bringing awareness, prevention, survival and hopeful healing through our programs, services, roundtables, training's and community events.
It is the partnerships with all service providers to assist all victims of crime; including families of murder, survivors of attempted murder, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse and human trafficking victims, We cannot do it alone; we need your help and support! One Victim... One Survivor...One Family... and One Community at a Time...
Support through hope, healing and growth.
Crime Survivors, Inc.™
PO Box 54552
Irvine, Ca. 92619-4552
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