Staff and
volunteers with the
Safe
Harbor Child
Advocacy Center
are continuing to recruit volunteers in
Tennessee’s Fourth Judicial
District, including Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier counties.
Recently, employees and volunteers of
Safe Harbor
staffed an information booth at the 2006 Rhythm in the Hills event in Pigeon
Forge over the Memorial Day weekend.
Persons
staffing the booth talked to attendees of the three day event and handed out
flyers to passersby to inform them about the non-profit
organization’s mission and services. Information disseminated to
event spectators outlined statistics of abuse in the district as a whole, as
well as a breakdown by county, even specifying the estimated number of
children 0-18 years old that have been impacted by cases of confirmed
abuse. In one recent twelve month period, Cocke County experienced 1,118 cases of confirmed abuse or neglect, roughly
fourteen percent (14%) of the children estimated to be living in the county.
Safe Harbor’s
board of directors is currently raising funds to build their first
state-of-the-art facility to serve child-victims of sexual abuse, as well as
severe physical abuse and neglect. A long-term lease has been signed
for property on which to locate
their first facility. The organization is presently raising capital to
begin construction on the facility, which will house investigators, a
specially-trained child forensic interviewer and medical facilities for
forensic medical examinations by contracted professionals.
Safe Harbor
Child Advocacy
Center is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) non-profit. To learn more about Safe Harbor,
volunteer your time and talents to aid child-victims of abuse, or to make a
tax-deductible contribution to support their work with child-victims of
severe abuse, please contact their executive director, Donna Koester, at
(865) 453-2638, email her at
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or visit their
website at www.SafeHarborCAC.com.
Remember Safe Harbor’s
motto, “It shouldn’t hurt to be a child!” You can
make the difference in the life of a child.
