Project Anchor- adolescent victims of sexual abuse

Updates

Anchor Group

Our open group is still ongoing despite the fact that we have had a drop in attendance. We believe this has happened due to enrollment in other extracurricular activities and a challenge to keep the curriculum engaging. Previously, we had a set number of weeks to complete a cohort. However, since we are not closing our group, we have had to become creative. We are striving to find new curriculum and are looking for new activities to implement in our sessions. In addition, we are hopeful that new group members will be joining us soon.

Individual Sessions

We have received another influx of this age group who we meet with on a regular basis. We are grateful to have several advocates available to provide services for our young individual clients.This age group appreciates the opportunity to process their pain through the utilization of activities, art expression, and games.

Navigate Presentations

Navigate school presentations are on hold while children are on summer break. However, we do have some potential presentations in the works for the next school year.

Miscellaneous

We are blessed to have new storage for our project supplies. We are even more grateful to have volunteers/our husbands (John Beller and Terry Conley) to come help us assemble it!

Needs

Fair Haven would still benefit from more funding to be able to purchase additional space to be able to run our programs and groups more effectively. We are dreaming of the day when we can have one room in which the main focus is utilization for art expression and working with Anchor clients.

A lack of transportation also continues to be a hindrance to program enrollment and participation.

We are eagerly looking for new curriculum, games, and activities for our young clients.

As always, we want to thank you, on behalf of the staff and participants of Project Anchor, for your generous support of our program and our mission to help the hurting youth in our community.

Updates

Anchor Group

Our young ladies continue to learn how to build a positive support system, the importance of self-care, and how to replace maladaptive coping mechanisms with adaptive coping tools. Although, the group is openly available for any adolescent sexual abuse survivor, we have had a small core group of girls who have been coming consistently since the group began. It is evident that the girls are starting to feel safe at Fair Haven as they continue to be vulnerable about their struggles and willingly reach out to staff and each other for support.  Also, since Sexual Assault Awareness Month is coming up in April, we gave the group members an opportunity to use their voice and empowered them to create posters (see below) to support upcoming community events. 

Individual Sessions

Fair Haven Center for Women has had an opportunity to provide services to more individuals as a result of the recent hire of our newest staff member. We are honored to work with such courageous young girls who are dedicated to coming to their sessions, despite knowing that they will be discussing/processing painful memories and emotions. Their bravery inspires us to strive to do our best to find the resources that would effectively meet their needs and  recovery goals. 

Navigate Presentations

Fair Haven is still presenting our Navigate program at our local community middle and high schools. In fact, we recently had the chance to collaborate with our local Township Trustee to speak about consent and provide awareness about sexual assault and rape culture in several middle and high schools. The time spent in these schools encouraged many adolescents to come forward with their sexual abuse/assault disclosures. We were so grateful to be able to support these hurting students and to let them know that we have a safe place for them to talk about their pain and to give them hope for the future.

Needs

Fair Haven would still benefit from more funding to be able to purchase additional space to be able to run our programs and groups more effectively. A lack of transportation also continues to be a hindrance to program enrollment and participation.

As always, we want to thank you, on behalf of the staff and participants of Project Anchor, for your generous support of our program and our mission to help the hurting youth in our community.