Full Text of HR0994 96th General Assembly
HR0994 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to honor accomplishments in the | 4 |
| lives of citizens of the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel, a devoted activist in the area of | 6 |
| violence against women and girls for 35 years, has won the | 7 |
| Civic Engagement, Community Service and Community Organizing | 8 |
| Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Gender and | 9 |
| Women's Studies Program; and
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel worked with a small group of | 11 |
| advocates in 1983 to draft and help enact into law | 12 |
| groundbreaking Illinois sexual assault legislation; and
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel has been reappointed by every | 14 |
| Illinois Governor since 1991 to the board of the Illinois | 15 |
| Criminal Justice Information Authority, where she serves as a | 16 |
| public voice for victim services; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1993, Barbara Engel was asked by Chicago Mayor | 18 |
| Richard Daley to write an innovative sexual harassment policy | 19 |
| for the City of Chicago and develop an implementation strategy; | 20 |
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel was a pioneer in the anti-rape and | 2 |
| domestic violence movements; she served as director of a rape | 3 |
| crisis center and created the first sexual assault prevention | 4 |
| program for the Chicago Public Schools; she is also the | 5 |
| co-author of protocols for the treatment of rape survivors and | 6 |
| battered women in hospital emergency rooms and protocols for | 7 |
| the Chicago Police Department's response to rape survivors - | 8 |
| which have since become national models; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, In an effort to forge a bond between the worlds of | 10 |
| research and practice, Barbara Engel served as an advisor to | 11 |
| the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study and co-authored a | 12 |
| publication titled "The Chicago Women's Health Risk Study: | 13 |
| Lessons in Collaboration" in Violence Against Women; and
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel has taken on the cause of | 15 |
| restorative justice by working to reform and transform the | 16 |
| juvenile justice system and strengthen the ability of | 17 |
| communities to resolve conflicts peacefully; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel is a co-founder of the Arab Jewish | 19 |
| Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, a group | 20 |
| that advocates for a peaceful resolution to the | 21 |
| Israeli/Palistinian conflict; and
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| WHEREAS, Barbara Engel has been the recipient of numerous |
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| awards, including the Women's Bar Association of Illinois' | 2 |
| Stephany Nawyn Visionary Award and the Glady Isser Award by | 3 |
| Shalva; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 6 |
| congratulate Barbara Engel for winning the Civic Engagement, | 7 |
| Community Service and Community Organizing Award from the | 8 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago's Gender and Women's Studies | 9 |
| Program and wish her continued success in the future; and be it | 10 |
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to Barbara Engel and the University of Illinois at | 13 |
| Chicago's Gender and Women's Studies Program as a symbol of our | 14 |
| affection, gratitude, and respect.
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