Set kids free from trauma of sexual/physical abuse

To All IA Supporters!

Thanks to all our donors over the years--and many of you who are brand new donors to IA just this year! IA celebrated it's 25th Anniversary on Monday, November 17th, 2014! Thanks to you, I want to report on more than just this project, which we are thankful you have chosen to support since IA joined the GlobalGiving Team! See a few pictures of the Totally Texan 25th Anniversary Blast attached!

For the last 25 years, IA has quietly reconciled hundreds of marriages and family conflicts in Family Reconciliation Mediation, supported untold numbers of victims in trauma recovery in our Victim Assistance Program, prevented suicides, homicides, delivered Violence Prevention Programs in schools, walked many long roads of grief and recovery with many thousands of hurting people and children!

You still have time left in 2014 get a tax deduction for yourself, to comfort the suffering of others and instill hope that people do care and a brighter day can in fact come after the night! Every dollar given from the heart makes a huge difference in the heart of another human being!

With regard to the Victim Assistance Program that you have supported through GlobalGiving, we have raised $9,625 of our $25,000, or 38.5% of our goal for this fiscal year!

In the program you are supporting, IA helped to return 4 children to a non-abusive parent, after the abuser kidnapped them and took them to another state, filing abuse charges on the healthy parent who was bringing them to counseling to recover from sexual assault on both girls and physical assault on both boys! Since the abusive parent was using false ID, it was difficult for officials in the other state to know that he had charges filed for abuse of his own children in Texas.

Thankfully, the oldest child remembered the name of his therapist at IA and officials were able to contact all 4 counselors for the children at IA, who then swore out affidavits and consulted with officials, courts and protective services in two states to return the children to the SAFE parent! Otherwise, all of these children might still reside in secret suffering and shame with this abuser!

Please help spread the word to others who may want to help! We appreciate what you have already given and any additional support when it becomes comfortable for you! In the meantime, we will keep you informed of what your dollars are doing here at IA!

Thanks from all of us at IA, and have a very blessed and Merry Christmas!

Warmest Wishes,

Sharon

 (Please note, that for confidentiality and safety purposes, we cannot show photos of the real children in this story, but have selected a photo of children which is representative of their ages and genders at the time of this event.)