[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         TRIBUTE TO JUDY EVANS

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 11, 2001

  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate Judy Evans, 
who for the past thirty-three years served as the Executive Director of 
Friends Outside National Organization. Judy Evans retired as of July 1, 
2001.
  Friends Outside National Organization provides parenting education 
programs and case management services in all 33 California state 
prisons. Under Judy Evans' leadership Friends Outside National 
Organization has grown to a $3.9 million dollar agency with 139 
employees. Over 9,000 children and 21,000 adults receive services at 
their prison visitor centers each month.
  Judy was instrumental in developing an innovative family 
reunification partnership with the San Francisco Department of Human 
Services. Through this program, Friends Outside National staff members 
are able to facilitate successful reunifications between incarcerated 
parents and their children in conjunction with county social workers. 
These children are all in foster care or kinship placement. The goal is 
to assist the birth parent, whenever appropriate, to regain physical 
custody after release, with the ongoing support of social services. 
This program directs resources to where they can be used most 
effectively: to the family.
  Judy Evans has mentored a generation of social service professionals 
who continue the difficult work of counseling families caught up in the 
criminal justice system. Her example will serve as an inspiration, not 
only to them, but to all of us.
  Previous to her Executive Director position at Friends Outside 
National, Judy served as the Santa Clara County chapter's Executive 
Director for ten years, as well as its Director of Family Services for 
twelve years. Additionally, Judy has served the community through the 
YMCA, Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy, Justice System Advisory 
Board, The Women's Fund and the Association of United Way Executives.
  Judy has received awards of recognition by the Pathway Society, 
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, California 
Department of Corrections and the Community Alliance Program for Ex-
Offenders.
  I, along with many others, thank her for her years of service to the 
State of California and to our District.

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