People Who Care

A diverse collection of dedicated individuals work to fulfill VIBS' mission. Volunteers are the back bone of the agency, providing leadership on the Board of Directors; support and networking on the Resource Council; and direct services as Emergency Room Companions, Speakers Bureau, and child care volunteers.

A caring and knowledgeable staff of over 40 individuals provide hotline intervention, counseling, advocacy, court accompaniment, outreach, and community education. In addition to their educational training, the staff receive issue-specific, on-the-job training and continuing professional development. VIBS' employees have distinguished themselves in public advocacy and leadership and have received numerous awards and honors for their work.

Following are a few of these dedicated people.

STAFF LEADERSHIP

Pamela C. Johnston, M.A., Executive Director
Clarice Murphy, M.S., Associate Director
Donna Filiberto, Director of Finance
Laura Sisak, L.C.S.W.-R, Director of Counseling Services
Ruth Reynolds, Director of Advocacy
Anna Marie Weber, M.A., R.D.T., Director of Children's Services
Alyson Ryan, Director of Community Education and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Centers
Melissa Macko, Director of H.A.L.T.

2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President
Diane Caputi
State Bank of Long Island

President
Elena Fortune-Jones

Vice President
Lynne Adair Kramer
Touro Law Center

Secretary
Gladys Harrington

Treasurer
Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, CSW
Department of Pharmacological Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook

Nancy Bock
Creative Work Systems

Helen Gronus

Carla Jennings

Annmarie LaRosa
South Shore Children's Center

Vanessa Sheehan
Law Offices of Guercio & Guercio, LLP

Harry Tilis, Esq.
Tilis Law Group

Jamie Winkler
Winkler Real Estate

RESOURCE COUNCIL
Jean Baron

Beverly Birns, Ph.D.

Annabel Caner

Elizabeth Custodio
HSBC Mortgage Corporation

Rose D'Allesandro, 
Major Interiors

Robert Detor, C.S.W.
South Oaks Hospital

Robert Gaffney
Dowling College

Joan Gilroy
Cablevision

Katherine Heaviside
Epoch 5

Todd Jusas
Juiced Technologies

Angelina Martinez, C.S.W., 
Utopia Home Care

Gary Melius, 
Oheka Castle

Rev. Paul Ratzlaff,
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Huntington

Frederick Schiavone, M.D.,
Stony Brook University Hospital

Janice Taraskas
Rizzi, Schwarz & Taraskas, Llp

Valentine Titus

Patricia Hill Williams
PHW Associates

2008 Annual Report