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Center For A Non Violent Community, Inc.

Renewing Lives..Restoring Futures

2010-2011

Annual Report
Elizabeth Sewell, Executive Director
19900 Cedar Rd. North P.O. Box 1147 Sonora, CA 95370 209-588-9305 24-Hour Crisis Line 209-532-3401 800-454-4766
www.nonviolentcommunity.org Center For A Non Violent Community is a name change for Mountain Womens Resource Center. The new name more accurately reflects the range of services and programs we provide to the people we serve including men, teens and children. While CNVC continues to serve all people the reality is that 92% of all domestic violence and 90% of sexual assault crime victims are women and girls.

Guardian Council
We seek to create a structure which encourages creative and flexible decision making, skill building, resource sharing, and a continuing personal and organizational learning process which contributes to individual and community empowerment. We believe that all people deserve respect, dignity, and acceptance; and this organization embodies these values. Therefore, the traditional Board of Directors of this organization will function as a Guardian of Processes which seeks to facilitate shared participation and decision making of the staff, volunteers, and Board while upholding the legal responsibilities of this organization. The Board of Directors will hereinafter be named the Guardian Council and all Directors will be named Guardians.

Linda Thorpe President Joan Stampfl Secretary/Treasurer Willow Thorpe Suzanne Praisler Emma Tiffany Mission Mary Orlando

The Center for a Non Violent Community Inc. actively supports the right of all people to live their lives free from interpersonal violence. We foster healthy relationships with self, partners, family and peers. We value the feminist principals of self-empowerment over self-desertion and of shared decision-making over dominance. We are ardently dedicated to building community which is interdependent, collaborative, respectful of diversity, and supportive of peaceful solutions to conflict.

Purpose
To foster a healthy and violence-free community To change social norms which contribute to the acceptance of violence and discrimination To partner within the community to create safety and healing for those surviving violence To impact policies that enhance equal rights, community health, and the prevention of personal and interpersonal violence To promote programs which build personal empowerment and self worth, and contribute to political and social equality while respecting diversity

Goals
1) Provide education and prevention activities to the community that reduce the incidence of physical, sexual, emotional violence towards children, each other, and ourselves. 2) Provide primary prevention activities which contribute to changing social norms regarding violence, gender inequality, or discrimination. 3) Provide intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, child abuse, community violence, and gender inequality. 4) Facilitate systems and policy changes in order to reduce violence. 5) Coordinate and collaborate with other national, state, and local institutions and organizations in achieving these goals.

Volunteers
Our Volunteers MAKE A DIFFERENCE EVERY DAY supporting our client familys
They are key to our success in providing service to the women, men and children in our community.

They continue to share with us their time and their talents.

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2010-11 Volunteers: Provided coverage on the 24-hr crisis line, 7 days per week Stuffed 27,595 Holiday donation letters Staffed the Front Desk 5 days a week Participated in public speaking engagements, information booths, advertising outreach, client support at emergency shelter, and monthly training Provided transportation, court accompaniment, and legal advocacy 4 new volunteers completed 65 hour State mandated certification training now 9 volunteers staff the crisis line Fundraised $67,406

Fundraising
*Annual Holiday Letter* Theatre Events* Golf Benefit* Beverage Booths* * Rummage Sale* Savemart SHARE cards* Cookbook sales*

In 2010-11 CNVC Fundraising Volunteers raised

$67,406
Fundraising Committee Emma Tiffany Nina Schloffel Beth Hatcher Nancy Horne Janet Mingo Marty Olson Mary Orlando Suzanne Praisler Liz Sewell Denise Story Linda Thorpe Willow Thorpe Sarah Whitney Bev Woodland Golf Benefit Committee Shari Crawford Karen KC Cole Bev Olson Sharon Perras Denise Story Shirley Wilson-Rose Lynne Nolte Alba Rodriguez
$1,576

2010-2011 Fundraising Revenue

$9,390 Holiday Letter

Golf Benefit
$27,204

$6,915
$6,155

Strawberry Music Festivals

Savemart S.H.A.R.E Cards Rummage Sale

$16,165

Full Monty /Cookbooks

Domestic Violence Services

Service

# of people served 388 17 47 43 6 16 243 3 67 130 57

24-hr Crisis Line calls: 24-hr Emergency Response: Emergency Shelter (Women): Emergency Shelter (Children): Transitional Shelter (Women): Transitional Shelter (Children): Individual Adult Counseling: Individual Child Counseling: Domestic Violence Support Group: Temporary Restraining Order Assistance Advocacy:

She's carrying boxes and bags full of her belongings and she is crying at the CNVC Emergency shelter. She stops and places her belongings on the ground and hugs the advocate that she encounters. She is crying and confides to the advocate that she does not know if she can do this or not. The advocate wipes away the tears running down her face and validates the fears and nervousness that she must be feeling right now. She assures her that we will be beside her every step of the way until she tells us not to and then, when that time comes we will only be a few steps away. You see, this is not a client entering the emergency shelter, this is a client exiting the shelter. She is leaving the emergency shelter and moving into our Transitional Housing Program. She has spent the last six months obtaining sobriety, employment, peer counseling, attending life skills classes, and most important regaining her parental rights of her 2 year old son. Assisting a client from "victim to survivor to thriver" is our greatest privilege.

Sexual Assault Services

Service

# of people served 46 5 32 0 12

24-hr Hotline calls: Emergency Response: Individual Counseling: Group Counseling: Advocacy:

I called the crisis line and she told me that just because I went out with a girlfriend and had a beer, I did not deserve to be given a date rape drug and be raped. I had been afraid to go anywhere because I thought the man who raped me might know where I live. I had all the doors and windows locked. I felt dirty and I was very scared. The woman on the crisis line was great and I finally left my house and went to the CNVC office to talk to someone. After that I felt safer and I got a lot of my courage back. Now Im back at work. I know that man will never be punished, but I feel like Im getting back in charge of my own life. The other day I watched a movie and I actually laughed.

Community Education Services

*Dynamics of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault * *Sexual Harassment Prevention* *Childhood Trauma & Healing Relationships* * CNVC Services Overview * # of presentations 121 Attendees 3900

Prevention Services
Presentation # of classes # of students 1,474 Teen Dating Violence Prevention: Healthy Relationships 57

Sexual Abuse, Child Abduction, and Personal Safety: Keeping Kids Safe 20 301 Bullying Prevention 27 1,310

Suicide Prevention
In 2010-2011, the CNVC Staff accomplished:

# of classes

# of people
274 100

QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Crisis Intervention Training: Gatekeeper Triage 21 7

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST): 2 Community Education: 12 253

A Focus Group was formed by CNVC suicide prevention in response to the high number of young adult male (18-29) suicides in Tuolumne County in 2010. The group consists of 5 women and 7 men, most in the age demographic. The goal of the group is to design and implement a campaign targeting this age demographic through extensive social media, print media, events, and radio announcements. The group came to the following conclusions regarding this demographic: Any message geared to the target group must be direct and to the point This campaign must be very visible on social media The group has agreed on Choose To Live as the name for this campaign with the tagline: If you kill yourself today, you will never

Child Abuse Treatment Program CHAT

Therapy is an oasis for a child in crisis. Play therapy cultivates a childs hidden resources, like finding water in the desert.

In 2010-2011, CNVCs 2 licensed therapists provided therapy to 81 children. Services include assessments, treatment plans, advocacy, testimony, referrals to additional services and collaborating and coordinating with other agencies. Children are grateful and learn to thrive through the care, comfort, and healing CNVC is able to offer them through individual therapy, and the many additional services made available to them. Through play therapy (art, sand tray, puppetry, and games) children find a method of telling their story of fear, abuse, worry, and neglect, when they have no words or a voice to express themselves and no listener to hear them.

Community Support
It is with deep gratitude that we thank the 2000+ individuals, organizations, and businesses of our community who so generously donate to help insure our services
Black Oak Casino C.V.F.D. Ladies Auxillary Christian Science Church Comfort Project Tuolumne County Davis-King & Associates Front Porch Jamestown H.O.G. Omega Nu Pine Needlers Quilt Guild R.O.O.F.B Red Cross Salvation Army SaveMart Supermarkets Senior Projects: Sonora High School & Summerville High School Sierra Bible Church Sierra Emergency Medical Group Sierra Foothills Womens Club Sierra Quilt Guild Sonora Hills Bunco Group #1 Sonora United Methodist Church Soroptimist International of Groveland Soroptimist International of Sonora Soroptimist International of Twain Harte St Mary in the Mountains Episcopal Church Summit Ranger District Employee Association The Black Hat Foundation The Juliets Tuolumne Band Of Me-Wuk Indians Twain Harte Market Umpqua Bank Unity Church Westamerica Bank Word of Life Fellowship Xi Mu Gamma

Federal, State & Local Funding Support

Tuolumne County Birth Certificate Funds Blue Shield Foundation California Dept. of Education CACFP California Dept. of Public Health California Emergency Management Agency
(Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse Treatment)

Tuolumne County CalWorks HUD Rapid Re-Housing Tuolumne County Marriage License Fees Sonora Area Foundation Tuolumne County Behavioral Health

$67,406
$16,202

Funding Support
$17,978

Federal & State $133,579 Local

Donation
$786,293

Fundraising
Tshelter Rent