By The Beacon of Hope Team

Hey!  So... if you did not receive a text or email prompt for a free throw code here is what to do:

Go to this link:  https://indianapolis.bfg.org

Set up your donor profile.  Or go back to it if you already have set up your donor profile.  Go to edit my account.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find the free throw code.  Copy the free throw code. 

Then go to view the bracket.  Click on the $ next to our agency logo and name.  Then scroll down and fill out the free throw code box.  Hit the plus sign at the top + to donate and then click on each step and when you get to the fourth step click donate even if you do not donate actual dollars you can still donate the free throw code and this will add $2 from LIDS and get us points!  Then share that you did it and we are suppose to get another $1/point.  Also if you click and fill out the survey you will get another free throw code and if you do this all again we will earn another $2 and points!  It works I did it both ways with donating money and without!  GO TEAM!

By The Beacon of Hope Team

Please support us in the Bracket.  If you haven’t set up your donor profile, please do that today before 8pm.  Just setting up a donor profile earns us $2 from Lids.  Tweet Lids about it and it will earn us another $1 from Lids!

How to set up a donor profile:
Go to https://indianapolis.bfg.org
It only takes a couple of minutes. 

Go to the far upper right corner click menu, click login, click create an account.  Fill out the short account creation information boxes.  It needs to be a 100% complete profile. 

Then when the tournament starts at 8PM ON THE 24TH (TODAY) you will be able to select us as the charity you want to support and text the “Free Throw Code” to the number BFG gives you and Lids will donate $3 automatically to us!

Here is an image snip it that might explain it even better:

Thanks in advance for supporting us!

By The Beacon of Hope Team

Starting this Friday!  February 24, 2017!  8:00 P.M.!

This is an online fundraising competition set up as brackets just like basketball season’s March Madness, only with non-profits being able to access a wide range of online fundraising tools for each agency to use and personalize!
 
In order to stay in the competition and move to the next round we need help from ALL of our supporters!

Not sure how Brackets for Good works?  Check out this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskPh8hBh_8

How can you help Beacon of Hope?  First we need you to go to https://indianapolis.bfg.org and set up your donor profile as soon as possible; now, today if you have a couple minutes.  Then ON THE 24TH text the “Free Throw Code” to the number BFG gives you and Lids will donate $3 automatically to us!  Remember you need to text on Friday, February 24, 2017.
 
Next we really need your financial support too! If all of our supporters can donate at the suggested level of $50 each we can raise enough “Points” (or Dollars $$) and move on to Round 2 of the Tournament!  Regardless of the dollar amount you are able to contribute we appreciate your support at any level.

Make sure you ask your friends and family to join our team and give to Beacon of Hope Crisis Center.  Be sure to share on all of your social media accounts also.  You can help us so much just by sharing and asking others to join in supporting us. 

Thank you in advance for your support and may many blessings come your way!

Use the hashtags #BFG17, #BFGIndy,  #teamBOH when posting about giving and why Beacon of Hope is your choice this year.

By Andrea Jenkins, MSW, LCSW

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center offers in-house counseling services which removes many barriers for our clients including access to services, inability to pay for services, and incapability to self-advocate for needs.  Our team can meet the needs of the women, men and families who contact us for services with competency and grace.  During this challenging time, many of our clients are ready to receive support from a counselor to resolve presenting problems, experience personal growth, address problematic behaviors, and identify goals with potential solutions. 

Counseling is a vital component to healing after being in an abusive relationship.  It gives the person an opportunity to tell their emotionally filled story in a safe, non-judgmental place.  For most, this is the first time they have been able to tell their story in its entirety including the role they played in the relationship.  This courageous act is where internal healing begins.  Coming to counseling for some is the first thing that they have done for themselves in years.  In therapy, they can see their strength to move through their journey of hurt which allows them to go from victim to survivor. 

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center counseling services provide individuals and families an opportunity to visualize and work toward the future they want which for most is simply to be HAPPY AND SAFE.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Sandra Ziebold, CEO
Telephone:  (317)731.6131
Email:  sandy@beaconofhopeindy.org
Website:  BeaconOfHopeIndy.Org

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center Relocates to Larger Office
 
Indianapolis, IN – Beacon of Hope Center for Women, Inc. (dba) Beacon of Hope Crisis Center (BOH) recently announced plans to move its corporate office to Perry Township in Indianapolis, IN in January of 2017. The agency serves individuals Statewide with primary numbers of service in Marion, Johnson and Hamilton counties; this new office will be more centrally located to all those that the agency serves. 
 
For BOH, a crisis center serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, the new office space means improved client service, new amenities for employees and room for growth.

BOH will now occupy the middle section of a multi-tenant office building located in Indianapolis’ Perry Township. “The new floor plan will provide greater efficiency in how we serve clients. As we started to outgrow our current office, it became increasingly difficult to serve clients comfortably and efficiently in the building. We are now able to better serve clients with an appropriate waiting space, room for counseling and meeting space options to adequately spread out and accomplish all necessary for our clients within the new building. We expect this to improve internal and external communication, and most importantly our speed in responding to clients,” said Sandra Ziebold, Chief Executive Officer.

“We were fortunate to find such a nice space in the area where our data shows that we are best suited to be for those we serve. We wanted to limit the impact that relocation could have on our clients and our employees. I don’t think we could have found a better location for our team. Our new location and enhanced operational efficiencies will help us continue to grow and evolve to keep pace with our client’s needs, allowing us to provide exceptional value and superior service along the way,” said Jackie Bowman Ponder, President Board of Director’s.
 
Remodeling construction of the new space is slated to be complete by the first of January. BOH plans to move early to mid-January, at which time BOH’s new address will be:
 
6920 S. East Street
Indianapolis, IN 46227
 
All BOH phone numbers and fax numbers will remain the same.
 
Please consider being a community contributor in assisting this mission with the extensive costs that go along with expansion.  You can visit their website at BeaconOfHopeIndy.Org and become an Expansion Investment Donor simply by purchasing a commemorative art brick.  Buy an Art Brick Campaign for Beacon of Hope Crisis Center
 
About Beacon of Hope Crisis Center
Since 2007, Beacon of Hope Crisis Center (BOH) has provided domestic violence services and programs to the Central Indiana community. Since 2009 BOH has been the exclusive domestic violence organization in Marion County offering direct assistance to victims while addressing pet safety. In 2016, growth enabled enhanced services and programs for domestic violence victims and the additional service of providing advocacy for sexual assault victims as well. BOH, through its Victim Advocacy, Counseling, Employment, Teen Talk Outreach and Education, Criminal Justice and Foster Pet Programs offers victims of domestic violence assistance in overcoming barriers that hold them in abusive situations. BOH is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

By Sandra K. Ziebold

Our Criminal Justice Program consists of partnerships with the police departments of Southport, Lawrence, Beech Grove, and Speedway police departments.  Beacon of Hope victim advocates work with law enforcement to follow up on purple sheet cases and when needed will arrive in partnership ready to assist victims during domestic violence calls.  Our advocates also provide emotional advocacy and assistance to those in crisis from sexual assault. The advocates provide a lot of information on victimization, crime prevention, safety planning and information on the criminal justice process and on the legal rights and protections of victims.  This program is breaking the cycle of abuse and educates victims about all of the resources available to assist them with leaving the situation and achieving freedom from the grip of domestic violence.

By Sandra K. Ziebold

Positively Impacting the Community by striving every day to ensure that we are informed, empowered, encouraged and ready to service our clients in every way that is needed.  Beacon of Hope Crisis Center is providing information on victimization, crime prevention, safety planning and information on the criminal justice process and on the legal rights and protections of victims.  Providing emotional support to victims and helping them with victim compensation applications.  Helping victims with submitting their comments to courts and parole boards.  Intervening with employers, landlords and creditors for the victims.  Helping victims find transportation and shelter and many times making other arrangements that can present, such as funerals.  Notifying victims of inmates' release or escape.  Advocating for our clients in all ways that will help them become free from the grip of domestic violence.  We help reduce crime and homicide rates by working to break the cycle of domestic violence and sexual assault in our communities.

By Sandra K. Ziebold

Our Foster Pet Program helps victims leave their abusers.  Victims do not want to leave their pets behind and when safe shelter doesn’t allow pets to come along our program temporarily safely provides for pets.  The program consists of volunteer host families who agree to temporarily house pets while the victim is getting the help needed. This is a major barrier for many victims that need to leave their violent situation.  When pets are used by abusers to control the primary victim often those pets need medical attention and with the help of our partners we provide whatever is needed for them.  Our program is committed to supporting the needs of those who have been affected by violence.

By Sandra K. Ziebold

HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT!!!  Beacon of Hope just received word from The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute that our Federal agency funding has been INCREASED by over 200% effective immediately. 

We are beyond ecstatic and are proud of the clear vote of confidence this decision shows in our incredible staff and the excellent services we are providing direct to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in our community.  BUT HERE IS WHERE WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Federal monies are always awarded with the condition that individuals and corporations in the community will contribute at least 20% of the money needed to fund the approved programs.  In other words, the community that benefits must “have some skin in the game.”  So, our funding has increased 200% and now our corporate and individual partnerships must increase 200%.  THAT MUST START NOW.  This is your chance to make a difference and to help stop the violence in your community.   GO TO OUR WEBSITE AND PRESS “DONATE NOW”, SIGN UP YOUR BUSINESS TO BE A CORPORATE SPONSOR OF OUR AGENCY, A PROGRAM OR ONE OF OUR UPCOMING EVENTS.  You can also help by spreading the word and sharing this message with all of your friends on each of your social networks.  Thank you in advance for your help and your much needed prayers.

By Sandra K. Ziebold

The Impact of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault on Businesses is financially mind-boggling and the toll on individuals and team culture is horrific.  Listening and having conversations with corporate boards, executive management teams, lunch-n-learns with corporate employees, awareness speaking engagements and community events are all a vital part of how we educate and assist the businesses in our community.  Beacon of Hope raises public awareness about domestic and sexual violence and the tremendous emotional, physical and economic cost of this violence.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the cost of intimate partner rape, physical assault and stalking totals $5.8 billion each year for direct medical and mental health care services and lost productivity from paid work and household chores. Of this, total productivity losses accounted for nearly $1.8 billion in the United States in 1995.  When updated in 2003 the cost of intimate partner rape, physical assault and stalking was more than $8.3 billion.  It is now 2016 and we know from listening and working with corporations that this problem does impact financials and we want to help you with that and save lives in the process.  Contact Beacon of Hope Crisis Center today to schedule conversation that makes a difference in your company.