Deborah “Deb” Flowers, MSN, RN, CPNP, SANE-A, SANE-P, who co-founded the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program at UNC Hospitals in 1997, received the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Service Allied Professional Award, which is given by the Office for Crime Victims in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deborah “Deb” Flowers, MSN, RN, CPNP, SANE-A, SANE-P, who co-founded the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program at UNC Hospitals in 1997, received the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Service Allied Professional Award, which is given by the Office for Crime Victims in the U.S. Department of Justice.
She was presented with the award April 29 in a ceremony on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy Solomon, and the Director for the Office for Victims of Crime Kristina Rose.
Flowers worked at UNC Hospitals for more than 31 years, from 1988 until her retirement in 2019. She now works as a medical services coordinator for the Child Advocacy Centers of North Carolina in Pittsboro. In addition, she continues to come back to UNC Hospitals to help with weekend and holiday on-call services in the Beacon Program, and she helps facilitate and teach SANE training sessions at UNC Hospitals.
The Office for Crime Victims published this story about Flowers, and also produced the tribute video shown below.