Jennifer Ann's Group

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The Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Group, Inc., commonly known as "Jennifer Ann's Group", is a Code Section 501(c)(3) public charity based in Atlanta, Georgia, whose aims are to educate young women about the prevalance of abusive relationships, how to identify these relationships and how to safely extricate themselves from such relationships.

1 History
2 Efforts
3 External link
4 References

[edit] History

Jennifer Ann's Group, named after Jennifer Ann Crecente, was formed by Ms. Crecente's father after the murder of the 18 year old high school honors student by a former boyfriend.

[edit] Efforts

The charity speaks to organizations of young women about recognizing the dangers of potentially abusive relationships. It prints and distributes credit card sized cards with information about abusive relationships in an effort to help educate young women about this problem.

On November 16, 2006 a member of the Jennifer Ann's Group's advisory group, Dr. Elizabeth Richeson, used Jennifer Ann's Group as an example of a group that is attempting to educate others about the prevalence of Teen Dating Violence at the Texas Psychological Association's convention about their "Stand Against Violence" campaign. On November 23, 2006 Dr. Richeson discussed the group's efforts to educate others about how common violence is in teenage relationships in an interview with El Paso, Texas NBC affiliate KTSM ^[1].

On February 8, 2007, the charity announced a partnership with the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline to promote their helpline on the Educational Cards that the charity distributes. The charity purchased 10,000 Educational Cards that will be distributed to the Education, Health Care and Government sectors.^[2].

On February 13, 2007, the charity provided testimony to the Texas House in support of new legislation proposed to require school districts in Texas to adopt policies regarding Teen Dating Violence.^[3]

Additionally, the charity has successfully lobbied with Texas state politicians Senator Eliot Shapleigh and Representative Valinda Bolton to have a bill, "Jennifer's Law" entered into legislation in Texas to award posthumous diplomas to high school seniors that have been murdered during their Senior year.^[4] The bill was entered on February 15, 2007, the one-year anniversary of Jennifer Crecente's murder. ^[5]