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A Safe Place Honors VolunteersFor Immediate Release: October 22, 2002 Contact: Phyllis A. DeMott, Executive Director 847.249.5147 Don Ford of Wadsworth, was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the Annual Meeting of A Safe Place/ Lake County Crisis Center October 21. Ford, recently retired from his own private investigation services business, has devoted several hundred hours of service this year to the nonprofit agency that provides comprehensive services to battered women and their children. Remodeling bathrooms and performing assorted repairs to the main shelter facility are among the many projects Ford completed for A Safe Place. A dollhouse he built is used both for play and for individual counseling in the children’s program. Meritorious service awards were given to five additional volunteers who work in direct client service. Jenny Walsh, of Evanston, received recognition for her work on A Safe Place’s 24-hour HELP LINE. Linda Dahl, Lincolnshire, and Deborah Terchin, Long Grove, Highland Park, were lauded for work with the prevention education program in middle schools and high schools. Gretchen LeMieux, Waukegan, and Doug Obenauf, Lake Villa, were given recognition for their work in the children’s counseling program. A Safe Place provides comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence and their children within the region of Lake, McHenry and northern Cook counties. In the last fiscal year, the agency provided 14,844 nights of shelter and answered 4, calls to their 24-hour HELP LINE. The nonprofit offers individual and group counseling, children’s counseling, court advocacy at the Lake County Courthouse, as well as abuser treatment services. Last year nearly 6,000 students and educators at 40 Lake County schools participated in A Safe Place’s healthy dating relationship programs. The 24-hour HELP LINE is available at 847.249.4450; TTY 847.249.6557. ###
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