Janet E. Fine, M.S., has held various direct service and leadership positions in victim services and children’s advocacy centers (CAC) at the local, state, and national levels for nearly 40 years, including as victim witness advocate and victim witness assistance program director in two district attorneys’ offices in Massachusetts, founding director of their DA-based CACs, and as executive director of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance. She is currently an independent consultant and trainer throughout the U.S. and abroad on victim rights and victim advocacy, CACs/MDTs, and individual and organizational responses to vicarious trauma for victim advocates and allied professionals working with victims and survivors. Janet also serves as an accreditation site reviewer for the National Children’s Alliance and as a consultant for the federal Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Training and Technical Assistance Center. She has held leadership roles in several OVC-funded, multi-year initiatives including: the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative (Training/Technical Assistance Coordinator), Vicarious Trauma Toolkit Project (Project Director), and the National Center for Victims of Crime’s State Victim Assistance Academy Resource Center (Senior Consultant). She is also adjunct faculty at Northeastern University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Janet has a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University.
This project was supported by Award No. 2020-CI-FX-K001 awarded to the National Children’s Advocacy Center by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice or grant-making component.
