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HARMONY AT HOME
ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021 Our mission To end the cycles of violence and abuse by empowering children and young adults to lead healthy and productive lives.
HARMONY AT HOME
2 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AUGUST 2021 Dear Friends of Harmony At Home, The past… We all just experienced an incredibly challenging year. The The future.... pandemic of 2020-2021 has been devastating on many levels to Now, as we see the light at the end of the tunnel, the need our community and our world. Our hearts continue to go out to to build our infrastructure to best support our community is all those who have experienced loss and pain. Mental health and wellness awareness has taken on a new dimension in the light does to support traumatized youth and families, we are now of Covid-19. All of us at Harmony At Home recognize the trauma recognizing that our entire community has been traumatized. The work that Harmony At Home will be doing over these next few years will be critical in addressing and treating the many issues Gratitude… share with our partners, Harmony At Home would not have Our Commitment to our Monterey County family… survived over this past year and a half. Due to the generosity of • We will continue to expand our services throughout Monterey County, as needed and requested, to address continue to support our community throughout the trauma of the presenting mental health and relational issues facing Covid-19. our children, youth, and families. • We will continue to provide programs that will help lift Pivoting… When we learned of shelter-in-place, Harmony At Home developed the infrastructure to provide services either virtually With Gratitude, or by phone within one week. Due to the strength of our sound organization was positioned well to make this shift. There were many considerations moving to this new model of service Julianne Leavy that had to be attended to. With guidance and support from Founder and Executive Director continue the continuity of care and the quality of service that our school and community partners have become accustomed to. Letter from Our Board President Dear community,
Welcome to Harmony At Home’s First Annual Report! Before COVID hit, Harmony At Home’s immediate goal was to expand its programs beyond Salinas and the Peninsula to the If you are already a friend and supporter of Harmony At Home, you know about the vital and life-changing work done every day supporters, we were able to achieve this goal despite the
Our primary Mission is to directly assist children who have If you have supported Harmony At Home in the past with your experienced trauma in their lives, with high-quality counseling force against bullying in school - our work in bullying prevention is fundamentally changing school culture in 50 of our County’s important than watching our children grow up strong and resilient, and ready to change the world. and parenting support to teen mothers, with a focus on higher Leslie Finnegan education, and we provide support to parents and children who Board President