2017 Visionary Voice Award Presentation

  • Wednesday, May 31, 2017
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Delaney House, Holyoke, MA

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JDI nominated Irene "Strong Oak" Lefebvre, Founder, former Board President and first Executive Director of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition, to receive one of the country's "Visionary Voice Awards" from National Sexual Violence Resource Center this year.

Strong Oak has spent decades working to address the individual, community and historical trauma caused by sexual violence. She has worked in several community based programs, served in leadership roles in the state coalition, and written and implemented curriculum and trainings within tribal communities and at national conferences. Her visionary leadership has informed the creation of the Circle of Care training for survivors of homicides victims, domestic violence and sexual assault as well as for providers who work with first time you and adult offenders and for communities in response to traumatic events such as mass murders, communities of color and other tragedies. She has generously served on a variety of boards, sharing her expertise around prevention, program development and grants.

Please join us for this celebration!


The award will be presented at the conclusion of the first day of the 2017 New England Rural Sexual and Domestic Violence Forum. Attendance at the reception is free and open to the public and does not allow access to the forum itself.  Check out the Forum program and sign up for one or both days of this fabulous program.  JDI is proud to be a sponsor of the Forum in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.