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Published on: 9/30/2005
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Marybeth Carter
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Marybeth CarterDirector
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Marybeth Carter
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Marybeth CarterDirector, Blue Shield Against Violence
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Marybeth Carter joined Blue Shield of California Foundation in July 2005, continuing her long-time commitment and leadership to helping victims of violence.
Carter has worked on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence since the early 1980s and, for seven years prior to joining Blue Shield of California Foundation, held the leadership position of executive director of the Sacramento based California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA).With her guidance, CALCASA grew from a grassroots organization to a national service provider for projects such as the Grants to Reduce Violence Against Women on Campus Program funded by the U.S. Department of Justice through the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to support more than 70 campus grantees nationwide and Project Access, providing comprehensive technical assistance to OVW grantees funded to increase the institutional capacity of critical responders to crime victims with disabilities.Carter was instrumental in the creation of several policy initiatives, including the "Strategic Forum Report: A vision to end sexual assault" and the California Campus Blueprint to Address Sexual Assault created by the Governor's Task Force.Her leadership guided key stakeholders in the design of innovative policies and programs to serve California's victims of sexual assault including The Strength Campaign, CALCASA's statewide social marketing campaign that promotes violence prevention messages to teen males in California communities.Carter is president of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, a policy organization based in Washington D.C.
Marybeth has served as executive director of rape crisis centers and domestic violence programs in various states.In Wyoming, she was instrumental in achieving Casper's first 23-person shelter for battered women and their children.At the Rape Crisis Center of Contra Costa and Marin (now Community Violence Solutions), her leadership resulted in three hospital-based sexual assault response teams (SART) providing trained medical examiners to conduct forensic examinations when victims present at hospitals after a rape.
Her leadership was vital to the creation of Contra Costa County's multi-disciplinary children's interview center to provide young victims of violence a child-friendly, coordinated criminal justice ‘team' response to reduce the trauma as a result of child sexual abuse and family violence.
Marybeth is president of the Crockett Community Foundation, which makes grants to projects such as the Crockett senior center, Crockett's thriving arts non-profits, and ‘bricks and mortar' improvements in the community infrastructure.
Marybeth graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington campus with a degree in Religious Studies with Departmental Honors.Born in Illinois, she grew up in the Chicago suburbs and, after her tenure as a student at Indiana University, has lived in Wyoming, Colorado, and California.
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