Janice Elizabeth Bingham Rench (December 13, 1939 – April 12, 2016) was an American social worker, lecturer, and writer.

She was a victim's advocate in Cleveland and in the Boston area, usually working with survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence.

[1] Rench was a licensed social worker, and director of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.

[4][5] Rench was one of three victim advocates who developed the original version of the Ohio Protocol for Sexual Assault Forensic and Medical Examination, in 1991.

She gave an oral history interview in 2003 about the early years of the victim advocacy movement, and of rape crisis centers in the United States.