Announcing new violence prevention program for teens

Hope Haven has partnered with LOUD (Living out UR Dreams), an arts education non-profit for teens, to launch a new violence prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club Teen Center. The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program utilizes creative role-playing to encourage bystander intervention in gender-based violence and bullying. MVP participants are led through real-life scenarios in which they might witness abuse and then challenged to consider a number of concrete options for intervention before, during and after an incident. Through such exercises the teenage participants will learn how to become engaged bystanders.
Jeanne Owens and Jamie Fleming of Hope Haven are leading the MVP program at Beaufort's Boys & Girls Club, supported by funding from the Ms. Foundation. Over the next few months program participants will be creating their own multimedia videos about violence prevention and distributing them through social media outlets including Facebook and Twitter. The project will encourage students to take the lessons they've learned about violence prevention and implement social change.
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Training session for new volunteers
Applications are now being accepted for new volunteers and interns wanting to take part in the important work of Hope Haven. Our volunteers go through a 25-hour training process presented by law enforcement, counseling and sexual assault experts. Multi-media presentations, group discussions and role-playing are used to equip participants with the skills necessary to help victims in crisis situations.Upon completion of the training, all volunteers are ready to answer crisis calls from the 24-hour hotline or serve as hospital advocates for child and adult survivors of sexual assault.
Training takes place on the 24th, 26th and 28th of January and the 1st, 3rd and 5th of February. Weekday sessions run from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and the Saturday session from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All six sessions must be attended to complete the training. Pre-registration is required. For more information or to register please call Jeanne Owens at (843) 524-2256.
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Staff
Shauw Shin Capps Ashley Bratcher Executive Director Therapist
Shirley Golden Mary Beth Hefner Therapist/Forensic Therapist/Forensic Interviewer Interviewer
Kimberley Crawford Katie Ashburner Executive Assistant Project Best Site Coord/ Victim Svcs Coord
Jeanne Owens Christine Smith Director of Prevention/ Family Advocate Outreach Services
Stephanie Dansky Marian Lindsey
Intake Coordinator Family Advocate
Kim Statler David Ames Chairman Chair Emeritus
William Presnell Nancy Weber Gloria Daly Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary
Karl Twenge Alice Walton Silvia Lalinde C. Juanita Graul H. Glenn Neff W. Thomas Lohr Court Babcock A. Gibson Solomons, III
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