It's quite simple, Vicki Polin created The Awareness Center eleven years
ago, an organization also known as the International Jewish Coalition
Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, which is dedicated to ending sex crimes in
Jewish communities globally.
Vicki
works within every movement of Judaism, from the unaffiliated to
renewal, reform, reconstructionist, traditional, conservative
communities and all the way to the orthodox, charedi and chasidic world.
Vicki's job has not been easy, because she's been shining a light on
things no one wants to acknowledge as being problematic. Over the last
eleven years Vicki's been threatened, spit on, insulted and verbally
abused in her attempts to mentor and advocate for those trying to use
the legal system to obtain justice. Vicki's resilience helps her to
continue on to educate and protect our communities from sexual
predators, and also offer support to those who have already been victims
of sex crimes. Her personal mission is to offer hope and healing to
many of those who feel they have been tossed aside.
Under
Vicki's direction, The Awareness Center does its best to act like the
"Make A Wish Foundation" for survivors of sexual abuse/assault and their
non-offending family members.
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