FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 20, 2004
Child Protection Education of America is proud to announce that Janice E. Rench has been hired as the Director of its Northeast Branch. Rench brings with her more than thirty years’ experience in social service and nonprofit sectors.
As Director, Rench will head the organization’s branch in Framingham, Mass. Rench’s responsibilities will include administering safety presentations and events to schools, community groups and corporations throughout the entire Northeast region.
Among her notable credentials, Rench has served as the executive director for the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, and more recently, for the Association of Missing and Exploited Children Organizations (AMECO). A licensed social worker, mediator, and crisis trauma counselor, Rench is also an author and lecturer. Her work combines personal safety seminars, and the assessment, design and implementation of training concepts and manuals addressing victimization issues. She has received the U.S. Department of Justice President’s Award for her outstanding service to victims of crime.
CPEA is a national nonprofit missing children organization based in Tampa, Fla., that assists parents and law enforcement officers involved with missing children cases by offering free photograph distribution. The charity also offers safety education events, including fingerprinting using its state-of-the-art fingerprinting program.
CPEA is the second-largest missing children organization in number of registered cases in the country. The nonprofit focuses on photograph distribution to help searches for the missing because, according to Department of Justice statistics, one in six children are found because someone recognized their picture.
Contact:
Daryl Umberger
Public Relations Specialist
National Office
Phone: 813-626-3001
Janice
E. Rench
Northeast Director
Phone:
508-620-4582
945 Concord St., Ste. 135
Framingham, MA 01701