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| SPECIAL THANK'S | |
Shepley Wood for creating a team of walkers and raising funds!
Our 5K Walk/Run Top Fundraisers:
1st Place: Mary Lou Martin
2nd Place: Max and Rusty Young
3rd Place: Stephanie Benevides
Community Organizations joinging us for Annual Walk:
Snow's Home and Garden featuring the Independence House Benefit Bead. |
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| IMPORTANT RESOURCES | |
Independence House HOTLINE:
1-800-439-6507
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| FUNDRAISING EVENTS |
October 22: Provincetown Fantasia Fair Follies
November 19-20: Border Books Benefit days (more soon).
December 9- Body Sense Day Spa fundraiser - details soon December: Look for details next month about the Giving Tree at Cape Cod Mall Ongoing: eBay Giving Works |
| AWARENESS MONTHS |
Feb: Teen Dating Violence Awareness
Apr: Sexual Assault Awareness
Oct: Domestic Violence Awareness |
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 As participants registered and took in a light breakfast you could feel the positive energy flowing at the Annual Domestic Violence Awareness 5K Walk/Run, Saturday,October 16. Entertainment was in the air, playing a variety of music from the 60's and 70's as over 100 participants, volunteers and staff returned from the walk carrying purple balloons to honor the victims and celebrate the survivors of domestic violence. The event raised over $8,000 and to say this was a success is an understatement. The importance of the 5K walk/run was more than just a fundraiser. Raising awareness of domestic violence, engaging the community to stand up against violence and getting involved is key to the success of Independence House's mission which was well received from throughout the community.
Independence House gratefully extends thank you's to everyone that walked, ran, donated, pledged, volunteered and supported this mission. And special thanks to all of our contributing sponsors including Willy's Gym, Boston Medical Center Healthnet Plan, The Women's Workout Company, Trader Joe's, Lamberts Rainbow Fruit Market, Friends Market and Poland Springs. |
| October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month | |
How does domestic violence affect us here on Cape Cod? Two important voices weigh in......
Rabbi Elias J. Lieberman of the Falmouth Jewish Congregation addresses this topic in depth when he talks about Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community, and Lysetta Hurge Putnam, Executive Director of Independence House shares her expertise, results, and the impact of community response in this MY VIEW Editorial submitted to the Cape Cod Times:
October is Domestic Violence month- why we should care. |
| Child Abuse Rises When Parents Lose Jobs | |
By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: October 03, 2010 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
 SAN FRANCISCO - Child maltreatment in the U.S. can be driectly linked to unemployment rates, researchers reported here.
Each 1% increase in the unemployment rate was associated with at least 0.50 per 1,000 more cases of confirmed child maltreatment one year later, Robert Sege, MD, PhD, of Boston University, and colleagues found in a national study of state-level data. Read full story
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| Politics, Government and Domestic Violence |   On Tuesday, September 28, 2010, the U.S. House passed H.Res. 1637 in support of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The resolution was introduced by Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) and recognizes the National Safe Child Coalition and their efforts to protect children from batterers. View the resolution.
Forty-seven U.S. Representatives supported the resolution as co-sponsors. Please remember to thank your Members of Congress for their support. On October 1, 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation to commemorate National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. View the Proclamation. |
| Fantasia Fair Follies |  The 36th Annual Fantasia Fair in Provincetown is a week long event that is held every October. The fair attracts people from the entire range of the LGBTI community- cross dressers, transsexuals, intersex individuals- anyone who considers themselves gender variant and their significant others, as well as professionals with an interest in the community. During the fair, the Fantasia Follies, a night of fun, music and charitable fund-raising, to be held on Friday October 22 has focused on Independence House as their charity of choice for this event. Independence House staff will have a table at the event and will be available to take any questions and discuss the agency- come and talk with us! Please support the Fantasia Fair and attend the Follies to help support Independence House. Details about the fair can be found at http://fantasiafair.org/Welcome.aspx
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| Holiday Food Drive |  The Mid-Cape Racquet & Health Club is holding a holiday drive for Independence House. Items needed are to help provide holiday dinners for Thanksgiving & Christmas to Independence House clients through the in-house food pantry. Stop by and visit the Mid-Cape Racquet & Health Club on the dates of the drive (September 20-October 30) at 193 Whites Path Lane, S. Yarmouth. Look for the display and shopping cart in the club's main lobby. The following non-perishable items will help make for a wonderful holiday meal: Cans of cranberry sauce, cans of various vegetables (corn, greenbeans, etc.), cans or packages of gravy or gravy mixes, boxes of stuffing and instant potatoes, super-market gift cards that could be used for turkeys and produce, boxed cranberry/banana/blueberry muffin-bread mixes, gift baskets. |
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