Janice Shaw Crouse


Children at Risk Biography Articles Honors

 

CHRONOLOGY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HONORS

2000

  • Began Veritas Policy Forums on Capitol Hill to highlight public policy questions confronting Legislators and top aides.  Presenters included: Allan Carlson, Francis Fukuyama, Danielle Crittenden, Mona Charen and Jana Novak.  The forums included:
      • America’s Child Care “Crisis”
      • Violence Against Women
      • Women and Welfare Reform
      • Teen Pregnancy and Abstinence Programs
  • Began producing bi-monthly Data Digests - short papers analyzing and providing commentary on policy issues or cultural trends
  • Helped draft and lobby for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000

2001

  • Authored Gaining Ground: A Profile of American Women in the Twentieth Century
  • Documented the trends in well-being of American women from 1900-2000
  • Gaining Ground used as the major research source for PBS documentary, “Is Marriage Just a Piece of Paper?”
  • Washington Times article, “Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper” provided the PBS documentary title
  • This research tool used by scholars and writers nationwide
  • Release of A Different Kind of Strength, co-authored by Mrs. Beverly LaHaye
  • Chosen as a Conservative Book of the Month
  • Released in paperback twice as The Strength of a Godly Woman and A Woman’s Path to True Significance
  • Translated into three languages

2002

  • Served the President as an Official United States Delegate to the United Nations Children’s Summit
  • Major speeches published and widely distributed in brochures
  • Began presenting Staley Lectures at colleges and universities such as Taylor, Vanguard and Messiah

2003

  • Nominated for the Bradley Prize by the Heritage Foundation for her influence on contemporary issues
  • Served the President again as an Official United States Delegate  to the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women
  • Profiled in A Celebration of Women, a publication of profiles of outstanding “women we admire

2004

  • Presented a plenary address at the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family at the Kuala Lampur regional celebration
  • Major address, “Cohabitation: Consequences for Mothers and Children,” was included in the official record of proceedings of the Doha conference in Qatar
  • Reported on pivotal issues and events at the Republican and Democrat political conventions
  • Published election analyses and conducted media commentaries on major television and cable networks

2005

  • Began a 2-year grant project from the U.S. State Department to combat sex trafficking in Mexico
  • Trained 15 Mexican leaders and worked with 6 NGOs in a project that resulted in over 7,000 people trained to recognize and combat sex trafficking
  • A victim’s shelter was designed and opened for rescued girls to seek rehabilitation and restoration
  • There are 12 girls there now, the youngest is just 13-years-old
  • Presented a seminar during the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women in New York
  • Spoke at World Congress of Families in Mexico City (spoke previously at WCF in Geneva, 1999)
  • Became a syndicated columnist for United Press International and a regular contributor to Human Events
  • Worked with the anti-trafficking coalition on crafting the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005

2006

  • Invited and attended the White House signing ceremony for the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005
  • Awarded the BLI “Abolitionist” certificate for work in combating sex trafficking
  • Award for work in promoting abstinence from the Abstinence Clearinghouse
  • Identified, along with the Beverly LaHaye Institute, by the Church Report as one of its “Top Twenty Influencers”
  • Participated in the PBS documentary, “When Women Rule the World”
  • Became a columnist for Townhall

2007

  • Appointed to the five-member management council (decision-making body) for the World Congress of Families and gave a plenary address at its congress in Warsaw, Poland
  • Authored a chapter on cohabitation in the three-volume major research compilation, The Family in the New Millennium, published by Praeger Publishers
  • Developed an anti-sex trafficking training manual and seminar and presented workshops at CWA’s National Leadership Conference and at Regent University for law students, local lawyers and law enforcement personnel
  • Spoke at the International Family Life Conference in Mexicali, Mexico
  • Taught a summer school class on “Feminist Theology” for graduate students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas

2008

  • Worked behind-the-scenes on the passage of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008—which includes the Zurita Amendment
  • Attended the White House signing ceremony for the TVPRA of 2008 as one of only ten NGO leaders to be invited
  • Named “Women of the Year” by The Centers for Decency; Chuck Colson was named “Man of the Year”
  • Interview on Don Kroah’s WAVA radio talk-show was recognized as “Outstanding Feature Program” for the year
  • Keynote speaker at the Real Women of Canada event in Ottawa
  • Became a contributor to American Thinker
  • Gave testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the U.N.’s CEDAW Treaty

2009

  • Authored, Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children’s Well-Being in America
  • Participated in the planning session for the World Congress of Families in Amsterdam
  • Gave testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the provisions in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
  • Served on the planning committee for and gave a plenary address  at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
  • Gave a closing plenary address at the World Congress of Families V in Amsterdam.

© 2009 Janice Shaw Crouse