After 20 years on the staff at the coalition, Sherrie Goggans retired from the Action Alliance at the end of December 2015!! You are invited to honor Sherrie’s work by making a contribution to her Legacy Project: Go-VAdata!!!
VAdata is Virginia’s premiere data collection system documenting the services provided by Sexual and Domestic Violence Agencies as well as the impact of those services. Twenty years ago Sherrie was hired to coordinate the development of a new data collection system because the system that was in place for domestic violence services was not Y2K compliant (remember Y2K?). Her leadership, curiosity and hard work resulted in Virginia establishing the first web-based sexual and domestic violence services data collection system in the nation. VAdata has continued to be an innovative system–one of the first statewide systems to meet federal confidentiality requirements, adaptable to a changing funding landscape and continuously evolving to meet the needs of SDVAs.
G0-VAdata is yet another innovation that will meet the needs of advocates “on the go.” Virginia’s amazing advocates seldom do their work at a desk–often, they are out in the community as they provide crisis intervention, advocacy and support.
Your contribution will make adapted versions of the data collection forms available to advocates from their cell phones, tablets and other mobile devices–making it super simple to document services that are provided in court, in the classroom, at the local community center, or even over a holiday meal!!
Please join us in wishing Sherrie well in her retirement and by honoring her work through a contribution before the end of 2015 toward the goal of $2,000 to make Go-VAdata a reality!!
Kristi VanAudenhove is the Executive Director of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance. She has been a leader in coalition work, advocacy and policy for nearly 40 years.
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