Congratulations to Berta Garcia and Jenny Theodore

The Shelter is proud to honor Berta Garcia as Employee of the Quarter and recognize Jenny Theodore for five years of service.

Jenny serves The Shelter as a Child Care Advocate, nurturing children of Shelter residents and staff.

Berta was honored for her advocacy with The Shelter’s InVEST program. Her nomination reads:

Berta is a wonderful advocate who always provide her participants with the best advocacy available. She navigates complex relationships with law enforcement with ease and has formed such strong professional partnerships across three agencies, that we can truly feel as though they are partners at our table of advocacy.

Berta often deals with high lethality victims and their cases on her days off and on holidays and she is forever providing them with the best care possible. She works daily in domestic homicide prevention and does it with grace patience, composure and honesty. Berta embodies the values of social workers and of an advocate at all times and she is always willing to go above and beyond for her team and her participants. She is a wonderful colleague and co-worker, she is diligent, reliable, professional and she is a fierce advocate for what she believes is right.  She has a life-long commitment to social justice and equality and has worked to ensure the safety and service of our participants.

Congratulations to both of these exceptional women!