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Lisa Goldblatt Grace
The Massachusetts Children’s Alliance is honored to present Lisa Goldblatt Grace with the 2025 One with Courage Award at our 15th Annual Statewide Conference, Healing, Hope, and Justice: An Advanced Conversation, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at the Sheraton in Framingham, MA.
This distinguished award celebrates individuals whose unwavering dedication, vision, and advocacy have profoundly impacted the response to child abuse and exploitation across the Commonwealth. Lisa exemplifies these values through her decades of leadership, tireless advocacy, and transformative work supporting youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation.
As the former Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice, a groundbreaking initiative of Justice Resource Institute (JRI), Lisa helped build a nationally recognized continuum of survivor-led, trauma-informed services. Since its founding in 2002, My Life My Choice has provided prevention programming, direct services, and advocacy that have influenced national discourse and practice.
For more than thirty years, Lisa has worked with marginalized young people in roles spanning direct service, public health, and systems-level reform. Her contributions include leading a shelter for unhoused teen parents, developing juvenile diversion initiatives, and working across outpatient mental health, residential treatment, and health promotion programs.
Please join us in celebrating Lisa Goldblatt Grace at this year’s conference as we recognize her impact, resilience, and courage.
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