Hays-Caldwell Women's Center

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Our Thirty-Seventh Year

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Mission

The purpose of the

Hays-Caldwell Women's

Center is to create an environment where violence and abuse are not tolerated in the communities we serve. The Center will provide education, violence prevention services, and crisis intervention to victims of family violence, sexual assault and child abuse. We will seek the support and resources necessary to achieve this mission.

 

Board of Directors

Jonnie Wilson

President

Carolyn Linér

1st Vice President
Marsha M. Moore

Treasurer
Katie McVaney

Secretary

Donald Lee 

Past President
Sarah K. Brandon
Elizabeth Clark
Curtis Clay
Laura DuPont
LaDonna Hansen
Trey Hicks

Beverly Hill
Alice Lochman
Cindy McCoy
Dora Montoya
July Moreno

Daniel O'Brien
Sarah Robbins-Bartlow
Chief Bill Sala
Cathy Supple
Karolyn Tybor

George Weynand 

 

Marla Johnson,  

Executive Director  

 

How You Can Help

 

Donate Money in a variety of ways. Give securely online on the above link or at www.hcwc.org.

  

Donate Gift Cards

from HEB, Target and Walmart to help clients shop for essentials like gasoline to drive to work, over-the-counter and prescription drugs, food, clothes and school supplies.  
  

  Donate Items:

Wish List

Small Furniture, Twin and Full-Sized Beds, Dishes, Pots & Pans in good condition for setting up new households

New Women's Panties & Bras

Boys clothes sizes 10 and up

Boys Boxer Briefs

Children's Shoes

Towels & Washcloths

Razors, Q-Tips &Floss

Band-Aids & First Aid Items

Thin Fleece Blankets

Bath Mats & Laundry Baskets

Holiday Gift Wrap

Back Packs

School Supplies

 Bus Passes

 

Before bringing above donations to HCWC, please call Victoria, weekdays

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at (512)

396-3404. Because of our limited storage, she will let you know if we still need

the items and where to

drop them off.

 

Spring 2014

HELPline: (512) 396-4357

or (800) 700-HCWC (4292)

How a Sexual Assault

Changed My Life Forever

 

        

 By an anonymous HCWC client

 

A fellow graduate student raped me during my first year in the program. I'd gone out that night with a girlfriend to have a "girls night." Soon Julia was inviting friends, female and male, to join us and we bar hopped.

 

 Click here to read the entire article.       

Honor your mother in a meaningful way this Mother's Day

 

Donate $25 or more to HCWC, and we'll send a personalized card to your mother featuring original art donated by San Marcos artist Veronique Hahn.  We will note that your have sent a generous donation in your mother's name to help victims of abuse.

 

Click on this link to order your personalized card.  

Mark Your Calendar -- May 3 for

HCWC's 30th Annual Auction

The Auction will be held at the LBJ Student Center Ballroom at Texas State University. Tickets are $30 and includes parking, live and silent auctions, raffles, card cuts, BBQ dinner and more!
 
 
Donor Focus: Planned Giving

Donor Wall     

 Last spring, HCWC was honored to receive a very generous bequest from the estate of Marian Pharr Posey.

   

Click here to read more about Marian Pharr Posey.  

Volunteer Spotlight:  Katriana Munguia
 She has a passion for helping and learning

 

Katriana has been a volunteer since September 2012, logging more than 1,000 hours!  She has been a regular on HELPline and HEARTeam and received HCWC's 2013 Changemaker Award for her dedication to helping victims.  Katriana shared with us the challenges of juggling school and volunteering.

 

 Click here to read her interview.   

HCWC Happenings
      

Dripping Springs High School student "attorney" Alex Thompson questions student "witness" Jacob Thomas during the 2nd Annual Mock Trial of Dating Violence at the Hays County Government Center.

 

 Click here for more HCWC Happenings.