A Wounded Life Can Be Made Whole Again. Dear Bivona Friends
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A wounded life can be made whole again. Dear Bivona Friends, In 2013, Bivona Child Advocacy Center took a turn toward the future like never before. Our $4.5 million Building Hope Campaign received a tremendous $500,000 lead gift from The Joseph and Irene Skalny Charitable Trust and by year’s end, we hit $3.5 million! A gift of this magnitude from the Skalny family inspires so many others to follow suit, and lends huge credibility to our agency, our mission and our need for relocating. By 2014, we will officially complete our Building Hope Campaign. One Mount Hope Avenue will put a permanent footprint in Monroe County as THE resource for children and families affected by the horrors of sexual and physical abuse. When we opened our doors in 2004, we thought we’d evaluate 250 children in our first year. We evaluated 525. This year, we evaluated more than 1,600. That’s 30 new children every week. In the past decade, we’ve not only tripled the number of children evaluated, we’ve tripled our partnerships, our staff, our operating budget, and went through three facility modifications to manage the growth and need. Bivona Child Advocacy Center at The Skalny Building will allow us to meet the growing needs of this community, and to deliver excellence in child abuse response, healing and prevention. A larger facility also means more space for our current partners and additional partnerships to expand programs and services. On day one at The Skalny Building, we will grow from 31 co-located partners to nearly 50; from 8,700 to 30,000 square feet; from one medical exam room to two; from three child-friendly interview rooms to four; from one play therapy room to two. The waiting room will double in size. We will have our own training facility, and a wellness center to care for our team members who are exposed daily to heartbreaking trauma. Whether you have given Bivona your time, your talent, your treasure, or all three, we would not be where we are today without YOU. Your loyal support of this agency and our Building Hope Campaign confirms your dedication to our shared vision: a community where all children are safe and free from abuse. Thank you for supporting Bivona Child Advocacy Center and the thousands of children and families we help heal, every single day. These kids deserve the best possible care. With your help, we will continue to raise, and meet, that bar. Jill Knittel Mary E. Whittier Board Chairperson Executive Director Staff Mary E. Whittier, Executive Director Rachel Ayala , Data Analyst 2013 at a Glance Kathy Davies, Office Manager Jessie Keating , Director of Development Donna Lipari, Events and Volunteer Specialist Patty Lovallo, Director of Finance and Human Resources 1,617 2,850 Sue Page, Receptionist Children Evaluated Services Provided Anna Potter, Director of Programs and Services Samantha Standing, Director of Development Female Stefanie Szwejbka, Prevention Education and 64% 427 Children receiving Outreach Specialist Victim Advocacy , Forensic Interviewer 36% Male Staci Whitney Support Services Paula Zimmer , Marketing and Communications Specialist 427 REACH Medical Exams 39% 0-6 Years Old Board of Directors Forensic Interviews 32% 7-12 Years Old 985 Tim Jones, Chairperson Vice President, Commercial Banking • M&T Bank 29% 13-18 Years Old 1,011 Mental Health Services Jill Knittel, Vice Chairperson Principal • Employee Relations Associates, Inc. Elizabeth Alo Managing Partner/Senior Consultant • Vitalwork Our Vision: That every child has access to the services of a Child Advocacy Ronald Boillat Chief Deployment Officer • Sweetwater Energy Center. Rob Clark Vice-President • Hoselton Automall Our Mission: To coordinate and provide services and support to meet the Catherine D’Amico, Secretary Chief Financial Officer • Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. needs of child victims of sexual or physical abuse and their families at a Daniel M. DeLaus, Jr. single, safe, child-friendly facility. We advocate on behalf of abused children Deputy County Executive • Monroe County by reducing trauma, increasing accountability, fostering healing, and Gary M. Domenico President and CEO • General Code, LLC promoting education and awareness to the community. Dan Duprey Exec. VP and Chief Operating Officer • Clark Patterson Lee Kelly E. Gagan Vice President, Institutional Advancement • Nazareth College Who We Are and What We Do Richard Gangemi, MD Special Assistant to the CEO • Bivona Child Advocacy Center work collaboratively in child abuse Rochester General Health System is a safe, welcoming place where investigation, prosecution and Christina Gullo children who have been sexually or treatment. President and CEO • Villa of Hope Christopher Harris, Treasurer physically abused can begin their Bivona is the only agency of CPA • Rizzo DiGiacco Hern & Baniewicz, CPAs, PLLC journey to recovery all under one Nathan Hopfinger its kind in Monroe County that Director of Profitability • Wegmans Food Markets Inc. roof. Our multidisciplinary team provides a compassionate, efficient, Sean Jensen, Esq. (MDT) of more than 80 devoted Associate • Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP cost-effective infrastructure for professionals representing 21 Gigi Lamb child abuse intervention. Bivona Senior Vice President, Human Resources • partner agencies works together Constellation Brands, Inc coordinates services among law to protect, treat and counsel child Don Lasher enforcement, Child Protective President • Capstone Real Estate Development victims and their families. This Services, prosecutors, medical Mike Roy streamlined approach reduces President and CEO • ExtraDev, Inc. professionals, social workers, Tyler Savage, Esq. trauma to children and saves about therapists and advocates. A child Partner • Harter Secrest & Emery LLC $1,000 in costs per evaluation. Barry Thornton, II can come to Bivona and get a Senior Vice President of Transformation Management • Excellus Health Plan Bivona Child Advocacy Center forensic interview, victim advocacy, Tracy Till is accredited by the National a medical exam and meet with Co-CEO • Butler/Till Media Kristin Vanden Brul Children’s Alliance and is known a therapist, all under one roof. Broker Associate • Hunt ERA Columbus Division nationally as a “premier child Children don’t have to repeat their Mark Verdi Branch Partner • Lawley Andolina Verdi LLC advocacy center.” Accredited story of abuse multiple times in Jenny Vossler child advocacy centers utilize a multiple places, which reduces Vice President and Controller • Paychex high-functioning and effective trauma and preserves the best Mike Wood Deputy Chief of Operations • Rochester Police multidisciplinary team approach to evidence for investigators. Department 1 361.5 84.4 255.7 150.2 77.0 70.9 70.0 62.2 Together Bivona Child Advocacy Center is more than a year into its $4.5 million Building Hope Campaign to renovate the Old Stone Warehouse at One Mount Hope Avenue. Thanks to a generous and inspiring lead gift of $500,000 from The Joseph and Irene Skalny Charitable Trust, campaign funds soared through 2013 and by December, hit $3,567,190 with just 342 donors! With less than $1.5 million to go, Bivona Child Advocacy Center at The Skalny Building will be ready for relocation in 2015. tripled the number of children To meet the growing needs of the evaluated, tripled its partnerships, children and families we serve, “Helping children at a most tripled its operating budget, Bivona has taken bold steps to vulnerable time is a necessary and gone through three facility put down a permanent footprint give,” said Glen Skalny. He and upgrades. in Monroe County. Bivona Child his partner, Tom Wahl Jr., have been involved at Bivona since its inception. The rationale behind Building Hope is simple. Since Bivona opened in 2004, the agency has 2 1) of 1 (Page At a Glance Located at One Mount Hope Avenue, we expect to add the following people, co-located at the new Bivona Child Advocacy Center: Rochester Police Department The Skalny Family 6 investigators/sergeants Advocacy Center at The Skalny instead of one, and the waiting Monroe County Assistant District Building will allow the agency room will double in size and 1 Attorney to serve more children who have a separate entryway for have been sexually or physically clients to maintain their privacy. Suburban law abused with the best possible One Mount Hope will have a enforcement services available. state-of-the-art training facility, 3 investigators and a wellness center to support “While there is no Team members on the front RESTORE amount of money lines of horrific and traumatic team members that can make a child abuse. The new building is 2 victim whole again, centrally located on the cusp of Bivona provides an the South Wedge neighborhood Mental health to serve both suburban and therapists environment that 2 urban families, and is closer begins the healing to the police station, the jail, process,” added Glen. the courthouse, and Golisano Children’s Hospital. It’s directly On day one, Bivona will go on a bus line with sufficient from 31 to nearly 50 co-located parking for clients, the entire partners with space for more as team, and visitors. the collaborative continues to GetGet InvolvedInvolved expand. The new space allows Thank you to The Skalny family, for four forensic interview and to all of Bivona’s generous rooms instead of three, two donors for your support. medical exam rooms instead Together,we are building hope Wondering how you can help of one, two play therapy rooms for our community’s children. the Bivona Building Hope Campaign as we work to renovate our new space? Visit www.BivonaBuildingHope.org to learn more about giving. 3 Renewing Our Pledge The Memorandum of Understanding April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and the perfect time for Bivona and our partners to renew our pledge to the collaborative approach of providing services to child victims of sexual and physical abuse.