The Avalon Center, a regional organization that provides assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, received accreditation as a sexual and domestic violence agency in June from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice. It was one of only eight agencies to receive the accreditation statewide. Shown here with a newly-arrived certificate of accreditation is Leslie Jingluski, the agency’s director of community engagement, whose office is in Avalon’s Gloucester branch.