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2017 - 2018 Annual Report 2017 - 2018 ANNUAL REPORT west central michigan We need to believe. 2017-18 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Believe survivors. Believe domestic abuse and sexual assault happen. Doug Wilterdink, President Believe the uncomfortable truth that people we know are capable of Lonna Wiersma, Vice President violence. Believe there are structures in place that protect offenders. Believe we can be part of the problem, but also part of the solution. Believe that Peggy Bishop, Treasurer domestic and sexual violence are not inevitable – they are preventable. India Manns, Secretary Believe the world can be different. Janean Couch Karen Ender Believing is an act of hope. And it’s what supporters like you do – recognizing Barbara Griffin that you can help, that you can change things. Julia Guevara Your support of the YWCA makes an impact for the 4,000+ served here each Meg Hackett year, and also for our community and beyond. You change lives, you change Bryan Houck laws, you change attitudes. The numbers and stories in this report show just Rhonda Huismann how transformative that can be. Kathy Koch Thanks to you, we can support survivors with quality comprehensive Sherwin Robinson services, and make bold change through prevention and empowerment Cindy Rogowski programming. You act in the belief that change is possible – and it makes all Precious Threats the difference.Thank you. Michelle VanTorre-Tellier Jan Winters Eliminating Racism Charisse Mitchell, CEO Empowering Women and Girls Promoting Peace, Justice, Freedom, and Dignity for All Charisse Mitchell Doug Wilterdink CEO President, Board of Directors PAGE 2 of those who stayed in the emergency shelter with children reported that education regarding strategies DOMESTIC for helping kids recover is useful to them 100% ABUSE SERVICES Responding to the needs 24-hour confidential helpline • Emergency shelter • Long-term supportive housing • Advocacy • of survivors: This year Victim counseling and support groups • added the inclusion of a Assailant counseling and psychoeducational groups • 8,403 support group specifically Supervised parenting time and safe child exchange • individual and for LGBTQ survivors, as well Medical forensic examinations • Therapy family therapy as an increased number of sessions Spanish speaking staff. SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES 41,466 nights of 24-hour confidential helpline • Therapy • Counseling • safety for individuals in 2,182 • Support groups • Medical-forensic exams for adults and long-term supportive housing advocacy and children • Advocacy • Short-term respite services for victims safety planning unable to return home sessions 363 medical-forensic exams (rape exams) CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE provided to survivors of SERVICES assault (including adults, of support group participants report Therapy • Counseling • Support groups • adolescents, and pediatric Medical-forensic exams • Advocacy cases) with an experienced feeling less isolated nurse in a safe, respectful 97% environment. PAGE 3 PREVENTION AND sessions of prevention education provided through EMPOWERMENT 389 Healthy Relationships classes for middle and high school students of all genders. Of these, 98 were for SERVICES students in alternative schooling. • Healthy relationship education for co-ed middle and high school classes with a 10-session curriculum • Young Women for Change after-school leadership 109 students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and empowerment programming for girls and those participated in sexual education through a parternship between the who identify as female, ages 13-18, in collaboration with the Michigan Women Forward YWCA and the Kent Intermediate School District, developing the first-ever curriculum in Kent County for youth with I/DD. Individuals • Trainings for educators on topics such as rape culture, with I/DD are sexually assaulted at a rate seven times higher than healthy relationships, etc. those without disabilities (via NPR/U.S. Justice Dept. study). • Healthy relationship groups for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as part of the WEAVE (Working to End Assault and Violence for Everyone) collaboration The Young Women for Change after-school leadership • Community outreach through events, panels, and and empowerment program kicked off by taking workshops participants to the Women’s March on Lansing. Girls learned about the power they can have and how • Outreach to local and state policy makers to build coming together as a community can make a difference awareness of sexual violence prevention in the issues they care about. Later, the program continued its Few women have influenced our summer camp, Activism Academy, organization as fundamentally as Helen Claytor, and few things for girls grade 7-9 and added 44 Grand Rapids bars and bars Rapids Grand mattered more to her than the the #BecomingAGirlBoss camp young women well-being of girls. In recogntion of for girls grade 10-12. The learning to take the her commitment, a group of more camps provided girls with the lead and impact the than 70 donors came together opportunity to learn about to establish the Helen Claytor 51 community around Recognition Society. The dollars Month in April Assault Awareness social justice topics, develop raised by the Society are used to skills to create change in their them businesses partnered with Prevention with Prevention businesses partnered provide special leadership-building opportunities for the girls Sexual for Services and Empowerment communities, and feel safe and participating in the YWCA’s leadership programs. valued while expressing themselves. PAGE 4 PRIVATE COMMUNITY SUPPORT YWCA CEO Charisse Mitchell (left) recognizes title sponsor Mercantile 2017 Honorees (from left): Edye Evans Hyde, Binti Abdi, Valerie Bank with Mark Augustyn, Senior Lender and West Region President for Carrasco, Deborah Phillips, Sara Knoester, and Jennifer Deamud. Mercantile Bank of Michigan Not pictured: Dr. Veneése Chandler 2018 2017 Title Sponsor: Title Sponsor: SPECIAL THANKS TO THOSE WHO HOSTED EVENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE YWCA: Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC Laura Fogle, D.D.S., M.S., P.C Aquinas College Jane Hibbard Idema Women’s Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. Studies Center Pinewood Middle School Beene Garter LLP Spirit Dreams Chemical Bank The Greater Grand Rapids Chapter of Jack & Jill of Cloth + Cabin America - Teen Fundraiser E+L Salon PAGE 5 Heart of West Michigan United Way Mercantile Bank of Michigan Curt and Kim DeVries Susan K. Lewis Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Dickinson Wright PLLC Mary B. Loupee Government Funders Michigan Women Forward Digital Tool & Die, Inc. Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. Kent County Department of Health Bonnie K. Miller Alexander Dodds Trust Makuski Builders, Inc. and Human Services Kate Pew Wolters DWH Liesl and Richard Maloney Michigan Department of Health RiverSource Life Insurance Company The Eileen DeVries Family Foundation India and Bill Manns and Human Services Sebastian Foundation Emergency Care Specialists, P.C. Martha’s Vineyard Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Mary and Bill Seeger Karen and Steve Ender Marilyn F. Martin Prevention and Treatment Board Leonard and Emili Slott EY Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital U.S. Federal Emergency Management Spectrum Health Hon. Jennifer Faber and Hon. James Fisher Materials Testing Consultants, Inc. Association (FEMA) Steelcase Inc. Lynne Ferrell Barbara Mayo Johnson U.S. Department of Housing Nellie Stevens Trust First United Methodist Church Maggie McCrystal and Carrol Cook and Urban Development The Wege Foundation Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc. Eileen Joy McKeever U.S. Department of Justice Vanguard Charitable Endowment - John C. Randy Flood Michael and Karen Melinn (Office of Violence Against Women) McClain Donor Advised Fund Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones PLC Grace Dyer Hunting Circle Rita Williams and John Gill Fountain Hill Center for Counseling Miller Johnson Attorneys ($5,000+) Wolverine Worldwide Frey Foundation MLive Media Group As one of the YWCA’s early leaders, Grace Dyer Joanne W. Woods Gazelle Sports Carol and Jon Muth Hunting led the capital campaign in the early Ginny Gearhart Network for Good Helen J. Claytor Circle William Gilbert Janet Nisbett 1920s to build our current Sheldon ($1,000 - $4,999) Boulevard facility. Joani Gill and Joseph Bichler Norris, Perne & French LLP Civil rights leader Helen Claytor blazed the M. Beth Goebel Old National Bank 4gr8food Group trail for later generations when she became Barb and Dan Gosch Open Systems Technologies, LLC Amway our association’s board president in the late Grand Rapids Community Foundation Shelley Padnos and Carol Sarosik John and Margaret Bertsch Charitable 1940s and again in the mid-1960s when she Grand Rapids Urban League H. Rhett and Jeralyn Pinsky Foundation assumed the position of board president of Grand Rapids Women’s Health PC Plante & Moran, LLP Ken Betz the YWCA USA. Grand Valley State University Plymouth United Church of Christ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Bob and Wende Alighire Stan and Patrice Greene PNC Wealth Management Charlevoix County Community Foundation Margo Anderson Barbara Griffin and Clay Stauffer Porter Hills Clarity Family Offices - James & Jane Welch Aon GVSU Michigan Small Business Development John and Chantal Porterfield Foundation Aon Foundation Center Reagan Marketing + Design LLC Betsy and Stan Dole Debra Bailey Meg Hackett Sherwin and Maria Robinson The Brookby Foundation BDO USA Renee and Jeff Harp Cindy Rogowski and Dennis Gill Fifth Third Bank
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