DV LEAP News

Recent Awards

• Ms. Meier was honored by Justice for Children on December 11th, 2007 for DV LEAP's work on behalf of battered women and their children.
• DV LEAP received the Mary Byron Foundation's "Celebrating Solutions Award" as one of four programs creating a groundbreaking model for change (Fall 2006).
• DV LEAP was selected through a highly competitive process for inclusion in the Washington area Catalogue for Philanthropy (2006-2007).

In the Media

• Ms. Meier recently wrote a Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post about the recent tragedy in the Castillo case in Maryland. To read the letter to the editor, please click on the following link.   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103152.html
• DV LEAP's custody and abuse and Supreme Court work was profiled in a recent Women's E-News article. To read the article, please click on the following link. http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3525
• Ms. Meier was a lead commentator in PBS' documentary, Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories, which aired in Fall 2005.  Click here to view a trailer for the film.