SBC Grant Will Enhance Information
A Safe Place Provides to Domestic Violence Victims
A $10,000 grant received by A Safe Place/ Lake County Crisis Center under the SBC Excelerator Competitive Technology Grants Program will enhance the capabilities of the nonprofit agency to provide comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence.
In accepting the grant at a press conference held Tuesday, December 9, at the Waukegan Township Senior Center, A Safe Place’s Executive Director Phyllis A. DeMott noted that the ability to utilize current technology is paramount in efforts to assist battered women and their children create a violence-free life.
The focus area in our grant request is our web site and how it can be better used not only to provide information that educates the communities we serve, but that reaches victims of domestic violence to ensure that every resource is available to them,” said DeMott. She explained that while the agency’s web site, www.asafeplaceforhelp.org., was created through the generous donation of web designer Grantastic Designs of Carpentersville, resources are needed to not only maintain the site but to provide staff training to keep it updated and increasingly interactive with those who visit it.
In the last year, the site has gone from an average 121 ‘hits’ or visits per day, to more than 200, many of them from persons seeking information about services and counseling, including many needing referrals for such services if they are located in areas outside the Lake-McHenry-northern Cook counties area served by A Safe Place.
The SBC Excelerator Competitive Grants Program is the signature giving program of the SBC Foundation. Grants are directed to nonprofit agencies to support the integration of new technology so that the communities of a particular county or region are better served. Grants distributed to six nonprofit agencies in Lake County during this grant cycle totaled more than $80,000.
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