CRC NEWS | February 20, 2020
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Dear CRC Supporter,
Many of you are probably more aware of CRC’s intervention services: our domestic violence emergency shelter and emergency hotline, our efforts to place homeless individuals and families into shelters or transitional and permanent housing. However, much of what we do is focused on prevention, so we can avoid the need for these intervention services. One area of our prevention has a special focus right now, as this is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 1.5 million high school students nationwide experience physical abuse from a dating partner in a single year. Educating teens and young adults about healthy relationships, and how to recognize the signs of unhealthy relationships, is one key way to impact the number of students experiencing physical abuse from their dating partners. Our educators, Jani and Luis, are working hard to reach as many students as possible to arm them with this education to help them stay safe. As a community, it’s not a case that we should do all we can to keep our youth safe. We
need
to do all we can to keep them safe.
Thank you for spreading the word that love shouldn’t hurt, and for supporting our programs to keep our young neighbors safe.
Warm regards,
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Mission Circle and Food Pantry Volunteer Groups
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Thank you, Mission Circle, for faithfully running our Food Pantry on Fridays! Mission Circle volunteers provide smiles and much needed food to our participants each week. Personal shoppers help low-income clients augment their food budget with fresh fruits, vegetables, regular and low-salt canned goods, fresh and frozen meats, dairy products, breads and sweets (limited). The Food Pantry serves families, senior citizens on fixed incomes, those struggling with homelessness and veterans, to name just a few.
Volunteers unload donations, keep the Food Pantry clean, and Bill Fields (a 91-year-old Friday volunteer) comes in to flatten boxes and take them out to be recycled!
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Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education
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So, what makes a relationship healthy? This question and many others are discussed over the course of a comprehensive safe dating and healthy relationships curriculum CRC offers to middle school and high school students in North San Diego County schools.
Students learn about the warning signs of abuse in relationships as well has the important elements of healthy and safe relationships. This semester, CRC Domestic Violence Prevention Educators are working with schools in Vista and Carlsbad, as well as the San Diego County Office of Education, to prevent teen dating violence in our communities.
If your school or youth group would like to know more about the curriculum CRC offers, contact Jani Sepanik, CRC Domestic Violence Education and Prevention Manager, at
jsepanik@crcncc.org.
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Coastal Finds: CRC’s new resale store in Carlsbad
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The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce officially opened CRC’s new resale store in Carlsbad with a ribbon cutting ceremony on January 28.
We hope you take time to visit the store. Its new location is 1065 Carlsbad Village Drive, and it is filled with great items at great prices.
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Join us for our
25th Annual Tea!
Saturday, April 4 at 1:30 pm
Encinitas Community Center
Your support of the
English Tea
raises more th
an $80,000 each year to help those in our community escaping lives of violence and fear, hunger and homelessness. Join us for our 25
th
Tea, where you’ll enjoy scrumptious sandwiches, desserts, tea and champagne, a silent auction and more!
Contact Debbie Murray for information on event partnerships at
dmurray@crcncc.org
or (760) 546-2537.
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Thank you to these partners for their support:
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Food Donation Drives
It’s not too early to start thinking about hosting a spring food donation drive in conjunction with the
USPS Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
on May 9! Our food & nutrition center helps 460 households each month, providing them with fresh produce and canned/dry goods. We are always grateful for the items received from your donation drives! Our donation wish list and more information is found on the
CRC website.
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Thank you to the following organizations and individuals for their support!
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Coastal Community Foundation - Encinitas Fund
for a $5,000 grant to the
Encinitas Senior Center project
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Igor Korneitchouk
and Susan Chance
for campaign support, new software and admin support for counseling services and new laptops/tablets for development and programs
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Columbia Employee Store in Carlsbad
What amazing results for a new and gently-used warm clothing donation drive in January! Just look at all the boxes of donated items we received. We are grateful to Columbia and the store employees who managed the event, especially Kelly Pruden, Retail Marketing Business Development, who spearheaded the donation drive for CRC.
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Holiday Baskets 2019
Thank you to over 2,075 volunteers who dedicated over 11,500 hours to make Holiday Baskets possible for 6,409 individuals! Together, our community provided over 100,000 pounds of food and thousands of coats, blankets, toys, bicycles and other items to make the holidays joyful for families in need.
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Domestic Violence Hotline: (877) 633-1112
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