Gender Equality United States Project #9400

Project Anchor- adolescent victims of sexual abuse

by Fair Haven, Inc

Project Report | Oct 12, 2015
Completion of 2015 Program and Future Plans for 2016

By Melissa Beller | Youth Services Coordinator

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Updates

We held our last cohort celebration in September for our Anchor program for the 2015 season. Since, this particular cohort consisted primarily of recent sexual assault victims; we were focusing on helping these courageous young women assimilate back into their daily life routines.

Working Together to Make a Difference

According to a report issued by the Centers of Disease Control in 2010, Indiana was rated 2^nd in the nation between 9^th-12^th graders who reported forced sexual intercourse. As a response to this alarming statistic, the staff of the Anchor program is partnering together with our Rape Response program:Beacon of Hope.

Beacon of Hope is a program designed to walk with victims of sexual assault. A trained advocate supports victims at the hospital for an exam or at any police interviews they need to do. Additionally, the program offers supportive counseling at Fair Haven Center for Women for further recovery.

In 2016 our collaborated team will provide a community training presentation geared toward adolescents.The training (referred to as Navigate) will focus on educating teens about healthy relationships, sexual abuse, sexual assault, how to prevent becoming a victim, and empowering survivors. It is our hope at Fair Haven that this training will not only educate the youth in our community about the realities and prevalence of sexual assault, but might also encourage survivors to courageously seek out help as well.

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.

Choose the Right Steps

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Jul 24, 2015
Spring/Summer Session 2015: in Full Bloom

By Melissa Beller | Youth Services Coordinator

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Updates

Project Anchor originally began with the intention to work with adolescent female childhood survivors of trauma and violence. However, as the demand continues to rise for a program like Project Anchor, we have come to the realization that there are additional issues of the young adolescent females in our community that need to be addressed. As a result of this discovery, we have expanded our program even more and have begun working with recent young victims of rape and sexual assault.

What This Means

The dynamics of working with a group of recent victims versus a group of childhood survivors has been a bit different. As a result, we have modified our program curriculum some more in order to effectively meet the needs of all of our participants. Ultimately, we anticipate in the near future that we will be creating “Tiers” of the Anchor group program: one tier of curriculum focused on childhood survivors and the other tier centered on helping recent rape and sexual assault victims.

Other News

The feature of the Anchor program designated toward helping individual clients continues to move ahead. We have had a consistent client base and have recently added a few more clients during the past few months. As we venture onward with this special population we continuously research for creative modalities and interventions to help our clients. Thus, we have added additional items to our wish list once again.

Project Anchor Wish List

Sand cutting/sculpting tools/miniatures
Play therapy games (to address self-esteem issues, assist with emotional regulation, facilitate group social interaction etc.)
Resource Materials/Curriculum
Doll House with a family (with removable clothing) and furniture
Legos/building kits
Play-Doh/tools/kits

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.

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Paper Dolls

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Apr 28, 2015
2014-2015 Cohort Completed & 2015-2016 Cohort Beginning Soon

By Melissa Beller | Youth Services Coordinator

Wall of Isolation

We completed our 2014-2015 cohort of our Project Anchor program at the beginning of March. We had a wonderful time at our special celebration ceremony dinner with the ladies. We even had a few of our group participants courageously share (in a room filled with their loved ones) about their feelings and experience in the program. We are so proud of all of these young ladies and we enjoyed working with each and every one of them. We offered the opportunity to all of the young ladies to return for additional support at any time. While, some of them have moved on, others have accepted our offer and have continued receiving individual services.

We are now gearing up to begin our 2015-2016 cohort of our Project Anchor program. We are hoping to begin this session in the next month. We have already received client referrals for this program and are just working on enrolling enough participants to meet group capacity requirements. We are looking forward to meeting our newest group of participants really soon. We are also excited to announce that we have another new staff member who has joined Team Anchor who will be co-facilitating throughout this cohort.

Since our last report, we were blessed to receive some of the items from our wish list. One of the biggest surprises we received was an anonymous donation to be able to purchase the additional space we needed! This new space has provided many opportunities to be able to work with our clients more effectively. Additionally, we were also gifted a large sand box and more sand toys for our Anchor clients to utilize in their individual sessions.

There are a few items on our wish list that we are still in need of and a few more :

Sand, Sand cutting/sculpting tools/miniatures
Play therapy games (to address self-esteem issues, assist with emotional regulation, facilitate group social interaction etc.)
Resource Materials
Incentives (make-up, hair accessories, nail polish, small notebooks, candy, etc.)
3 Ring Scrapbook Binders/Page protector sheets

On behalf of the staff and participants of the program, we thank you for your continued support of Project Anchor.

Shield of Safety

Sand Box

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