YWCA Presents 2012 Public Official of the Year Award to David Litvack

YWCA Presents 2012 Public Official
of the Year Award

The YWCA presented Representative David Litvack with the 2012 YWCA Public Official of the Year Award at an appreciation breakfast Wednesday, October 17th. The Public Official of the Year Award was presented at the YWCA Center for Families. This is the 15th year the YWCA has recognized an outstanding public official in conjunction with its annual Week Without Violence campaign.

"During his years in public office, Representative David Litvack has been an articulate, steadfast champion for the safety, health and well‐being of Utah women and families, regardless of their life circumstances. We honor him for advocating with integrity on many public policy issues that define us as a state and a people, and for staying strong and principled and steady in the midst of intense economic and political pressures,” said Anne Burkholder, YWCA Chief Executive Officer.

Week Without Violence is a public awareness campaign with a series of events designed to educate, to encourage thoughtful conversation, and to renew the search for solutions to the problems of violence in families and communities here and around the world—and to strengthen our sense of personal and shared responsibility for keeping one another safe from harm.

Past Public Officials Recognized by the YWCA:
       1998 – Representative Gary Cox
       1999 – Senator Afton Bradshaw
       2000 – City Councilman Keith Christensen
       2001 – Senator Mike Dmitrich
       2002 – Senator Paula Julander
       2003 – Representative Jackie Biskupski
       2004 – Governor Olene Walker
       2005 – Chief Justice Christine Durham
       2006 – Richard Anderson, DCFS
       2007 – City Councilman Eric Jergensen
       2008 – Salt Lake City Prosecutor Sim Gill
       2009 – Representative Lorie D. Fowlke
       2010 – Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank
       2011 – Lloyd Pendleton, Utah DCC

The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. For more than 100 years the YWCA has reached out to women and their families with friendship, life‐changing programs, and opportunities to learn, lead, and influence the world around them. The YWCA’s enduring belief is that better lives for women – all women – will lead to stronger families and communities.

Since opening the first domestic violence shelter in Utah in 1976, the YWCA has developed an integrated range of programs focused on the problem of family violence. Today the YWCA is Utah’s oldest, largest, and most comprehensive provider of shelter, transitional housing, supportive services, and education for women and children who have experienced abuse and violence at home.


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