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 Hopeful Times: Fall 2010
Holiday fundraising under way

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This year's Hope Haven holiday card features an inspiring account written by a 14-year-old child sexually abused by his own father:

Hope Haven has helped me in tremendous ways. Going to counseling at Hope Haven has taught me that my situation is not an everlasting problem. It helped me to get through what you can call a "speed bump in life" and now I can control it. The counselors are very understanding and don't let your problems go unsolved..... In counseling you free yourself of your situation. It will still be in your head but not building rage and anger inside of you.....a speed bump in my life had come to me when I was eight, but through family, friends and counseling at Hope Haven I realized that my road was long and bumps will come but there are a lot more flats.


Hope Haven will serve close to 400 children and more than 100 adults from our community this year with similar stories of abuse and sexual assault. It's a daunting task trying to serve so many more victims while our budget continues to decline. As you plan your holiday giving, we humbly ask you to consider supporting Hope Haven, so those in need of hope may experience healing. Please choose to give the gift of hope and donate by clicking here.


Staff and volunteer holiday gathering

Staff and volunteers will meet at the Hope Haven office on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. to ring in some holiday cheer. 

Hope Haven could accomplish all that it does without the consistent and valuable help we get daily from our volunteers.  Staff members will be sharing some of their most treasured holiday recipes with our fabulous volunteers.  If you are a volunteer and plan to attend, please RSVP. See you there!

Hope Haven of the Lowcountry
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P.O. Box 2502
Beaufort, SC 29901-2502
Tel (843) 524-2256
Crisis Hotline (800) 637-7273
www.hopehavenlc.org




 


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Announcing new violence prevention program for teens

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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.


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. 
 

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
 
Board of Directors
 
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