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Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Ms. Menard will serve as a panelist for the discussion entitled, History of Grassroots Organizing in the Domestic Violence Movement and Civil Right5s Movement: Parallels for engaging and mobilizing the community , which is scheduled for the morning of Monday, March 19, 2007 . Anne Menard has been an activist working with and for battered women and sexual assault survivors for more than 25 years. After serving as a Senior Consultant to the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during 2005, she returned to her role as Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), a project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For over 2 years, she was a Policy Advisor to the Domestic Violence Resource Center Network and a Welfare Policy Advisor to the NRCDV. She served as NRCDV's first Director from 1994 to 1999. Prior to this national level work, Ms. Menard was the Director of the Office of Victim Services for Connecticut 's Judicial Branch, and for over 6 years, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In the early 1980s, Ms. Menard co-directed Connecticut 's largest domestic violence program for almost 4 years and was actively involved in Hartford Sexual Assault Crisis Services for over 5 years.
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