The Mary Parrish Center is pleased to announce Becky Owens Bullard as the 2024 Champion of Hope. The Champion of Hope is awarded annually to an individual in the Nashville community who has made a significant effort in support of survivors of interpersonal violence. 

Becky is the Deputy Director of Programs for the Nashville Office of Family Safety (OFS) where she leads the work of OFS’s programs. During her time in this role, she has developed multiple citywide programs that address gaps in the city’s response to high-risk issues, including a firearms dispossession protocol, a strangulation response protocol, high-risk client services protocols and tools, and the city’s high-risk response team. 

Nationally, Becky is a speaker and consultant for the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center, Health and Human Services National Human Trafficking Technical Assistance Center, and the Center for Justice Innovation’s DV RISC program. She trains national audiences on multi-disciplinary collaboration, leadership, interpersonal violence, risk assessment, strangulation, firearms, and the intersections of human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence. She is also the author of the Human Trafficking Power & Control Wheel, several nationally disseminated human trafficking identification tools and curricula, and co-author of the forthcoming HHS training on familial human trafficking.  

Congratulations to Becky on this much-deserved honor. She will be presented the Champion of Hope award at this year's Housing Hope Luncheon.