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2022 Election

Delegate Assembly

5. Crime Victim Organizations (3 Positions)

Lorelei Ammons (KS) Chief Operating Officer Clinical Affairs VitalCore Health Strategies

Dr. Lorelei Ammons, PsyD, began her career in correctional psychology in 1997 as a Clinical Supervisor and Forensic Psychologist. In 2008, she was appointed as the behavioral health direc tor of the Kansas Department of Corrections and continued in that role until launching VitalCore Health Strategies. Ammons fulfilled her clinical psychology internship in 1993 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, while active duty in the US Army. Ammons has served on the Commission on Accreditation, the Standards Committee, Behavioral Health Committee, and the Substance Use Disorder Committee. Ammons has conducted behavioral health certification (CBHC) training for numerous state and local correctional pro grams across the United States. Ammons was a member of the Human Trafficking Statistical Committee in Kansas, and with Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), a group addressing human trafficking, exploitation, and recovery.

Lydia Newlin (MN) Program Manager, Victim Services and Restorative Justice Minnesota Department of Corrections

Lydia Newlin is the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) Victim Services and Restor ative Justice program manager. In her work with the DOC, she oversees all processes associated with victim notification and post-conviction victim advocacy working with homicide survivors as they prepare to testify at life sentence parole hearings, victims who are victimized while on duty as cor rectional staff and offenders who are victimized while incarcerated. Newlin also oversees the DOC restorative justice programming and processes. Additionally, Newlin is responsible for the managing the Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability programs. Newlin also developed a Domestic Violence Initiative unit. Newlin works as a liaison to the Minnesota DOC and legislature on matters relating to post-conviction victim issues. Newlin re ceived her bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Thomas in 1994 with a major in criminal justice and her Master of Arts from Metropolitan University in public administration.

Jennifer Storm (PA) Victim Advocate Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Storm served for 10 years as executive director of the Dauphin County Victim/Witness Assistance Program, a non-profit organization which provides direct services to victims of crime, community outreach and training in victim’s rights, and crisis response services. Storm has been the victim advocate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2013. As victim advocate, she is responsible for representing the rights and interests of crime victims before the Pennsylvania Parole Board and the Department of Corrections and to provide notification to crime victims of the potential for inmate release, opportunity to provide testimony, and notification of the inmate’s movement within the correctional system. Storm cur rently serves as president of the National Crime Victims’ Law Institute Board of Directors and chairs the PA Task Force on Restitution.

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