JAC Patrissi
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Strategic Planning and Facilitation Milestones:

  • Vision, Mission, Goals for justice for victims within all state agencies in Vermont
  • Planning and Facilitation of the Standards for Victim Assistance within the State of Vermont
  • Original planning for creation of Tri-State Victim Assistance Consortium (Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) offering response to criminal mass victimization, mental health crises, and others
  • Planning for Statewide Victims Services Collaboration Project for the State of North Carolina
  • Facilitation of Center for Sex Offender Management and Sexual Violence Advocates cross-training series
  • Creation of the Vision, Mission and Strategic plan for the Vermont Victim Assistance Academy
  • Strategic Planning for the The Center for Crime Victim Services and the Department of Corrections (DOC)
  • Planning for the Offender Responsibility Plan within the Agency of Human Services
  • Planning of Statewide Leadership Group for the Elder Victims and Victims with Disabilities grant
  • Design and facilitation of Structured Dialogue concerning Restorative Justice programs and practices
  • Advisory member to the National Center for Victims of Crime Online Training Project
  • Facilitation of change of non-profit Buffalo Mountain Cooperative’s management structure
  • Facilitation of change of non-profit Clarina Howard Nichols Center management structure

“JAC is one of the most skilled, professional leaders and facilitators I have ever had the pleasure of working with. She has an uncanny ability to synthesize a statement of a participant with something said shared hours before; she is constantly, seemingly effortlessly, weaving together all planners’ or participants’ viewpoints into a coherent whole. Participants walk away from a process feeling and knowing that the group has accomplished something significant and that they have been integral contributors to that.”

Karen Vastine
Vermont Communication Support Project Coordinator, VT
Defender General’s Office and Creating Access Coordinator, VT Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

“…JAC is also a highly skilled, intuitive, empathic leader and facilitator. I have depended on her expertise in many a very complex situation. Her amazing breadth and depth of knowledge are very unusual. She is the rare sort who is detail oriented but also has incredible vision. Those skills, combined with her uncanny ability to quickly understand complex situations and dynamics make her invaluable as a consultant.
Hers is a wise presence that is personally a pleasure to work with. It is this intelligence and wisdom that enables her to engages people in MEANINGFUL dialogue.

She says what she means, means what she says, and does what she says she is going to do. She is accountable to the ultimate goals, to a succinct process, to the outcomes and vision created.”

Sherry Burnette, Ph.D
Agency of Human Services Trauma Coordinator
State of Vermont