Email: faces.sherry@gmail.com
Phone: (918) 519-3698           

6533 E 89th Place
Tulsa, OK  74133-5010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we do: "Raising Awareness; Inspiring Action"

 

Educate

f.a.c.e.s. offers free educational presentations for a variety of audiences and family safety topics.  With a mission of family safety across the lifespan, trained volunteers will explain how to be safe in many circumstances.  We will create a special presentation for you and your group upon request. 

 

Among our most requested presentations are:

·        Senior-Wise Safety

·        Dating Safety: Right from the Start

·        Internet Safety for All Ages

·        Community-Wise Safety

·        Domestic Abuse in the Workplace

·        Kids Learn When to Whistle for Help. 

All presentations include safety whistles for attendees and informational handouts. Contact f.a.c.e.s. to schedule a presentation for your group.

 

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More heads and hands working together accomplish more – that goes for agencies as well as for our dedicated members, all of whom serve on their own time and with no compensation.   f.a.c.e.s. works together with the Ann Patterson Dooley Family Safety Center, RSVP, DVIS, and most recently, the Girl Scouts, to extend services to our mutual clients and members. 

 

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f.a.c.e.s. work strives to bring people together for the purpose of caring for one another and for those who are not able to help themselves.  We do that by making presentations and showing attendees how to teach at least one other person what they learned – “Each One, Teach One.”

 

We bring together in other ways, too. You can learn to knit or crochet or help teach others when you join a Hope Blossoms and healing shawls group.  Group members meet weekly to create hand-crafted blossoms and healing shawls for victims and survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, and rape and sexual assault. 

 

The Director of the Oklahoma Coalition for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Marcia Smith, suggested that victims of violence might feel more secure if they had a Hope Blossom to hold when they were required to testify in court about the abuse, generally a very re-traumatizing experience for survivors. 

 

A forensic nurse suggested that victims of abuse in emergency rooms are always traumatized and a Blossom or shawl gift from a stranger would give them courage and something to hang on to. 

 

f.a.c.e.s. President, Sherry Clark, is the Oklahoma coordinator for the national Sheila’s Shawls project.

 

Some groups also adopt additional service projects that help children. Currently, groups meet at the following locations.  Call f.a.c.e.s. for details and exact location:

 

·        RSVP “Knittin’ Kittens”

      Fridays from noon-1:30 pm

 

·        Glad Tidings Assembly of God

 

·        University of Tulsa School of Law

       “Knit One, Purl TU”

       Wednesdays from 11:30am-1:00pm

 

·        Jenks First United Methodist Church

       “Loops of Love”

        Thursdays from 1:00-3:00pm

 

You may become a f.a.c.e.s. member by learning how to get help and give help and taking the f.a.c.e.s. pledge

 

 

 

ACT  Top of Page

·        During 2005, our start-up year, f.a.c.e.s. volunteers made 64 presentations to a variety of organizations and handed out safety whistles and information to nearly 1,000 people of all ages. 

 

·        Volunteers crafted over 400 healing shawls and 400 Hope Blossoms to be distributed to survivors at the Ann Patterson Dooley Family Safety Center, DVIS, and hand-delivered to Tulsa and Oklahoma survivors of family violence and surviving family members of victims who lost their lives.

 

Over 4,000 applications for protective orders were filed during 2005, and over 2,000 survivors of family violence are in counseling at DVIS.  See The Facts.

 

To begin to bring healing to survivors in Oklahoma, we must continue to teach and connect people. Call f.a.c.e.s. to say you want to help by learning to knit or crochet healing items, or to learn to share the facts about how to get help and give help, or to request a presentation. We want to help you learn to help yourself and others.

 

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