June General Membership Meeting

Join us for the June General Membership Meeting! 

First Join us in recognizing this year’s Scholarship winners Emily Long and Kiley Johnson as we present them with their ceremonial scholarship checks. Then enjoy the program with our speaker Marianne Lynch from A Woman's Place

About the speaker:

A Woman’s Place, Bucks County’s only domestic violence response and prevention-focused organization. Since 1976, A Woman’s Place, Bucks County’s only domestic violence response and prevention-focused organization, has been supporting victims of domestic violence with shelter, counseling, therapy, legal services, advocacy and more. Our current housing program not only provides a 24/7 hotline and runs a safe house, but AWP also focuses on rapid rehousing, where we support survivors by moving them into safe apartments within 30 to 60 days of entering shelter so that they may focus on healing. This program expansion has allowed AWP to host more families at the shelter while at the same time, support additional victims of DV in the community. In addition to housing, the organization has recently expanded counseling and therapy offerings with an additional licensed therapist on staff, a bi-lingual counselor, and an additional part-time children’s advocate. This program growth has allowed AWP to support victims experiencing the trauma of abuse and mental health issues stemming from it. AWP has also reorganized how Advocates support survivors through the court system with the Victim Response program. Advocates in this program support survivors through the PFA process, through criminal court and through the sentencing process as well. Finally, AWP serves survivors with two attorneys on staff to address legal issues stemming from DV. Through these various programs, AWP supported 2300 survivors last year.

 

While this may seem like a significant amount of crisis intervention programming, we also believe that we must address the issue of DV on a societal level with prevention programming. Therefore, we have a team of educators in the school system from grades 4 through 12, talking to children about healthy friendships, boundaries, self-esteem and later, the importance of healthy dating relationships. Last year, this program served almost 6000 children throughout Bucks County.

 

Marianne G. Lynch, CFRE

(pronouns: she, her, hers)

Executive Director

A Woman's Place

Phone: 215-343-9241 ext. 111

Fax: 215-343-3411

P.O. Box 299, Doylestown, PA 18901

Email: mlynch@awomansplace.org

Website: www.awomansplace.org

HOTLINE: 1-800-220-8116