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.
Collaborate
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.
Build Community
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
·
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.
 |
