Spring Issue
 		March 23, 2009
Abortion Recovery InterNational

April 2009 is
Abortion Recovery Awareness Month

In 2005, ARIN established
APRIL as
Abortion Recovery
Awareness Month.

The two key purposes of the month are to:
  • encourage and promote healing opportunities
  • enlighten society to the aftermath of abortion on individuals and families

See our website for awareness activities that you can do in your community to promote after abortion healing and awareness opportunities.

Click here:  Awareness Month
 

Register now for our

Abortion Recovery
Leadership Symposium 2009

May 17 & 18th in Richmond, Virginia.

Click here: Symposium
 
Heartbeat Conference immediately following.  ARIN will have 3 days of AR Workshops.  Don't miss it! 
Join us for the week!
WELCOME NEW
ARIN AFFILIATES:

Save-A-Life Shelby
Pelham, AL

Confidence Pregnancy Center Salinas, CA

Crossroads Pregnancy Center Hanford, CA

Life Network
Colorado Springs, CO

Steamboat Springs PRC
Steamboat Springs, CO

PRC of Carrollton
Carrollton, GA

Healing Hidden Hurts, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN

Valerie Lukasik, Ph.D.
Dearborn, MI

Life Choices Center
Binghamton, NY

Pregnancy Resource Center of the Valleys, Inc.
Bath, NY

Options Resource Center
Monogahela, PA
 

NEW !! Abortion Recovery CARE Directory
Abortion Recovery InterNational announces the launch of our new website at www.AbortionRecovery.org.


This revised site, designed to reach those who are hurting from a past abortion, features a brand new CARE Directory with a Google-style map interface and convenient zip code search. With over 100 people a day looking for help in our CARE Directory, these new features are making it even easier for those hurting to get the care they need.

The new site also features 3 message boards for visitors to express how abortion has impacted their lives, how recovery has changed their lives and an online memorial for the unborn. We never anticipated the stories that are being posted to our site every single day. These messages continually remind us not to grow weary in helping those individuals and families that experience after abortion trauma.

Is your recovery program listed in our online directory? If so, please check your listing on our new site to make sure your information is correct.  If your affiliation is not current for 2009, we encourage you to update it.  At the end of April, affiliates who have not renewed their affiliation and updated their contact information may run the risk of being removed from our database.

Remember ARIN offers scholarships to those agencies that may not have the financial funds to affiliate with us.  Your assistance to those hurting is paramount.  Call us for details...
Are You On The Map?

In 2008, www.AbortionRecovery.org, received just under 40,000 visitors to our website. And hundreds more emails, phone calls and online messages. These were individuals and families looking for help, looking for hope after an abortion.

With our new map interface, it's easy to see that abortion recovery is flourishing across our nation - but we can also see that there are places where help is hard to find.  Please check our website to see if your recovery center/program is listed. Church clergy, is your church listed as a venue to help those suffering? Private therapists... is your practice listed?

If not, please consider joining our network of abortion recovery providers.  We have six different levels of membership, so there is a place for everyone:
  • Individual Partners
  • Community Partners
  • Global Partners
  • Recovery Partners
  • Professional Partners
  • Counseling Partners
If your center/program isn't listed, people looking for help on our site won't know you're there. It's easy to join ARIN today.

Click here for further info and to see the benefits of Partnership:
ARIN Affiliation
CARE Teams Under Development
 
Abortion Recovery InterNational is developing CARE Teams (Compassionate Abortion Recovery Efforts)  across our great nation. With test runs in North Carolina and California, we hope to have our CARE Teams spread like wild-fire. 

CARE Teams will involve bringing together key people in your community... think Community Action Recovery Effort! 

People that might be involved in a CARE Team: parents, students, rape counselor, clergy, school nurse, shelter representative, group leaders, drug and alcohol counselors, youth groups, professional therapist, life coach, grief specialist, etc.

We'll explain CARE Team Development and the goals of our ARIN CARE Teams at three upcoming conferences:
  • Hope for Life Conference
        in April, in Atlanta GA

  • Abortion Recovery Leadership Symposium
        in May, in Richmond, VA
  • Heartbeat International Conference (ARIN Co-Sponsored)
        in May in Richmond,VA

We'll hope you join us for a great Spring of training, networking and collaborating on behalf of those hurting from abortion.

Click here for more conference information:  Conferences
Spread the Word
 
Abortion Recovery InterNational welcomes Janet Trenda to our Leadership Team as Vice President of Educational Services.  You can learn all about Janet by visiting the Leadership Team tab on our website. You may also read the bio and testimony of Cathy Foster, our Vice President of Outreach Services, as well as those of President Stacy Massey.

Feel free to use the new ARIN websites as a resource! Contact your local churches, women's shelters, professional therapists, high school and college counselors, and civic organizations and tell them to link to www.AbortionRecovery.org.  This great resource will save you the effort and expense of developing a website for your program AND allow you to easily let people know about your ministry.

Also don't forget to download the amazing ideas for Abortion Recovery Awareness Month.  We have affiliates all over the country participating in this world-wide event.  Put out a press release and tell your community that "the time has come to heal our nation"!

Hope to see you at the ARIN Leadership Symposium in May. 

God bless each of you and the lives that you touch on His behalf!
 


Stacy, Cathy & Janet
Leadership Team
Abortion Recovery InterNational, Inc.


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