Child Protection United States Project #49420

Fair Haven Rape Crisis Center General Support

by Fair Haven, Inc

Project Report | Mar 1, 2022
Building Forward

By Jenna Martin | Direct Services Coordinator

Call to Action

We have just finished up with our largest year of serving clients, despite being in a pandemic. We had 314 clients with 4,943 services provided. As spring approaches, we are expecting to see these numbers continue to increase.

Fair Haven is building forward with a variety of client services! We have implemented two new support groups to accommodate more client’s schedules and needs. There will be an Expression group on Saturdays for clients who work during the weekday. This group will provide clients with healthy coping skills using their creativity to process their trauma. Our other new group is a Spanish Speaking support group where we will be using a faith-based curriculum.

Fair Haven has recently had the opportunity to speak at a Self Defense Forum Event. Coordinators were able to highlight Victim Rights, blast statistics, and elaborate on the free services we offer to the community. We were able to provide information, call our community to action, while having a fun time doing it!

We are currently planning our 19^th Annual Walk in the Park. The theme for this year will be “Be the Light”, which is inspired by the light that survivors have within themselves as they journey through recovery. The event will offer several food trucks at the walk and will be a glow fun run. This walk will be held at Wicker Memorial Park in Highland, IN on June 11^th, 2022. The event begins at 5:00 pm. We are excited to welcome the community to be the light and help raise awareness about sexual assault and remember to #ChooseAdvocacy.

Self Defense class

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Fair Haven RCC Upcoming Events

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Dec 6, 2021
Merry and Bright

By Shana Robertson | Education & Outreach Coordinator

Direct Services Coordinator Jenna decorating

"Happy Holidays" is a wonderfully appropriate greeting this time of year. There are 14 holidays celebrated in the month of December! As we strive to create a homey and comfortable atmosphere for our clients, a priority is festive decorating to bring joy and ensure the office is merry & bright.

At Fair Haven Rape Crisis Center, we understand the holiday season can be extra difficult for clients dealing with sexual trauma. This stress can be multiplied by the pressure of providing gifts when some of our clients are financially unable to do so. In 2013, Fair Haven together with local partners, created a solution called the "Guiding Star Project". Through the generous giving of our local partners, churches, agencies, businesses, organizations and private citizens, we can also ensure that our clients' hearts can feel a little merry & bright too. This project is offered to all clients with children and to the families of clients that are children and adolescents. Don't worry, confidentiality is key and every family participating is assigned an anonymous code to pair with their wishes.

The "Guiding Star Project" name was chosen from a scripture in the Holy Bible; Matthew 2:2 "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him." As a faith-based organization, we identify Jesus is the Christ, yet open our arms and extend our services to all people; regardless of gender, race, religious belief, ability, demographic, socioeconomic status, ect. One of our biggest supporters in the project is a local church that requests 80-100 stars and generously sponsors the gifts and continues to receive our stars every year since 2013. The tree is placed in the foyer, the stars are hung with care and the congregation choose stars to 'adopt'. They keep the stars to pray for the participants and the send the gifts to the agency.

We give thanks to all our supporters that empower our agency to provide the best care and services to our clients. We are especially thankful to experience and see, first hand, what kind of impact your generous support actually makes in the life of a survivor of sexual assault. Those are the moments that empower our victim advocates in feeling merry & bright in the work we do.

Wishing you a very "Happy Holidays", with a prayer that you can feel merry & bright this season as the New Year 2022 begins!

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Aug 14, 2021
Everyone Gets Better

By Becca Emerson | Anti-Trafficking Coordinator

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