In This Issue:
Eat Shortcake on Mother’s Day Weekend & Support Survivors in Shelters Across the Portland Area!
Honoring Mothers in Shelter: Caring for Survivors this Mother’s Day
A Fond Farewell to Sheryl Rindel, Family Violence Intervention Program Director
Sponsorship Opportunities Now Available!
Support Survivors in Your Community
Eat Shortcake on Mother’s Day Weekend & Support Survivors in Shelters Across the Portland Area!
Saturday & Sunday, May 9th & 10th at all New Seasons Market locations from noon to 4 PM! Domestic Violence Resource Center representatives will be at the Orenco Station (Hillsboro) and Cedar Hills (Beaverton) locations, but you can support our cause through enjoying delicious shortcake at any greater Portland area New Seasons. Download the flyer here.
Come out and eat delicious short cake & support survivors in your community! Getting involved doesn’t get any sweeter than this.
Honoring Mothers in Shelter: Caring for Survivors this Mother’s Day
Thank you to the Soroptimists for generously providing thoughtful Mother’s Day gift bags to the individuals currently at Monika’s House Shelter. Your caring really makes a difference!
Also, thank you to the Beaverton Women’s Club for stepping up as a sponsor of Monika’s House Shelter! The Beaverton Women’s Club is adopting the bathroom at Shelter: providing for supplies, renovating, and making it a nicer, more nurturing environment this summer. Thank you to the Beaverton Women’s Club for taking on this project to make Monika’s House Shelter a place that survivors can call home as they face their most critical time of need.
Thank you to these community groups for thinking of survivors in crisis this Mother’s Day.
25,000 women across the nation will spend this Mother’s Day in a domestic violence shelter, where concerns like securing a new home, keeping their children safe and putting food on the table make the holiday just another day to survive. This year, go above and beyond flowers and brunch, and honor the women you love by supporting women in need. Say thanks this Mother’s Day with a donation in her name and we’ll send her a card with your special note letting her know about your gift.
A Fond Farewell to Sheryl Rindel, Family Violence Intervention Program Director
The last eight years Sheryl has been instrumental to the day-to-day success of the Domestic Violence Resource Center. She helped to shepherd our organization to a model with an emphasis on providing clinical services. Sheryl will be missed and we’re excited to see where she’ll go from here!
Sheryl Rindel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oregon. She received her Bachelors Degree in Human Development Family Studies with a minor in Substance Abuse Studies from Texas Tech University and a Masters degree in Counselor Education from the University of North Texas, with a specialization in agency counseling. She completed graduate course work from Portland State University in Clinical Supervision, and is qualified to supervise registered L.P.C. Interns. Her work as Director and Clinical Supervisor of the Family Violence Intervention Program at the Domestic Violence Resource Center was a tremendous asset to the community.
Sheryl’s interests and hobbies include the performing arts; singing, dancing, acting, and musical theatre. In 1988-89, she toured with the International Cast, “Up With People” whose mission is to “Promote Understanding Among People of All Nations!” From 2001 to 2006, Sheryl directed and choreographed for the musical group Shout-Out!, a non-profit organization promoting mutual respect, diversity, and teamwork through musical performance and community service.
Sheryl says: “My philosophy and approach in working with people is simple! I believe that each of us has strengths, internal resources, and wisdom, which can be used to reach our full potential! Our thoughts control our life…we are continually creating our future. I believe that each person, by changing their thoughts and actions can change their life!”
Thank you Sheryl for your time and energy spent at the Domestic Violence Resource Center.
A letter to the Domestic Violence Resource Center family from Sheryl:
“My background includes 20 years experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in the counseling field, youth ministry, and the performing arts. I began working for DVRC in 2001 in the position of Director/Clinical Supervisor of the Family Violence Intervention Program. My role was to ensure that adult survivors of domestic violence receive efficient and effective services through counseling, education, and advocacy as well as ethical and legal clinical services. The FVIP Team, and I emphasize “Team” has been able to reach more people quickly by incorporating Master’s level interns and volunteers who work 8-12 months under supervision to provide professional quality services free of charge in Spanish and English to adult survivor’s who have ever experienced domestic violence any time in their life. Without the dedicated passionate work of interns and volunteers, this would not have been possible.
To me, my work is about Empowerment; empowering survivors to be exactly who they are and ensuring that they stay safe! Respect for self and others has a lot to do with empowerment. I have always believed in the concept of respect even when a person has failed. Respect involves encouraging a person to rise to their fullest potential. This allows for forgiveness, growth, and healing!
I plan to continue my work empowering individuals and families. More recently I was asked to join the Board of TransActive Education and Advocacy whose mission is to advocate for gender non-conforming and transgendered children and youth, and their families. I am currently a Program Manager with TransActive helping them to create a clinical program that is inclusive, educational, and supportive to this underserved and misrepresented population.
As I leave DVRC I will carry with me fond memories and great respect for all of the people I have worked with and much love!
Thank you and farewell!”
—Sheryl Rindel, LPC, NCC
Promote your business as a champion of survivors of domestic violence!
Save the date for Autumn Affair 2009: October 2nd
Thank you to the Mauss Company, Certified Public Accountant (Champion Sponsor), & Henningsen Cold Storage (Advocate Sponsor) for stepping up as supporters of survivors of domestic violence in our community!
Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Celebrate your business as a champion of safe and healthy relationships during October, Domestic Violence Awareness month, by sponsoring the Domestic Violence Resource Center’s annual event: Autumn Affair on October 2, 2009.
Autumn Affair 2009 will provide first-rate community outreach through our event promotional materials, website, and press releases, as well as promoting your business at the event itself to approximately 150 involved community leaders in attendance. Autumn Affair is the largest fundraising event of the year for the Domestic Violence Resource Center and is vital to supporting the only non-profit serving specifically survivors in Washington County.
Visit our website for more information and for a menu of sponsorship opportunities. Or, please call Sarah Keefe at 503-680-5352, ext. 308, or email sarahk (at) dvrc-or (dot) org. We’d be delighted to discuss how we can partner with your business to support survivors!
Support Survivors in Your Community
There are many ways to get involved. Invite us to your community group to give a presentation about domestic violence. Have a chili cook-off at your office and donate the proceeds to our program. Sponsor a room, make a commitment to give starter plants for a vegetable garden at shelter, help us haul away yard waste or mow the lawn. Reduce your personal cable commitment and sponsor a subscription to cable for Monika’s House shelter, to Netflix, to a new electronic gaming system for our younger guests.
Help us to continue providing free services to the over 10,000 survivors we work to empower every year by donating today. You can find our financial information and Federal Tax ID number online.
