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Center For A Non Violent Community, Inc.
Renewing Lives..Restoring Futures

2009-2010

Annual Report
Elizabeth Sewell, Executive Director

19900 Cedar Rd. North

P.O. Box 1147
Sonora, CA 95370
209-588-9305
24-Hour Crisis Line
209-532-3401
800-454-4766

www.nonviolentcommunity.org

Center For A Non Violent Community is a name change for Mountain

Women’s Resource Center. The new name more accurately reflects the
range of services and programs we provide to the people we serve including
men, teens and children. While CNVC continues to serve all people the
reality is that 92% of all domestic violence and 90% of sexual
assault crime victims are women and girls.
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Guardian Council
We seek to create a structure which encourages creative and flexible decision making, skill build-
ing, resource sharing, and a continuing personal and organizational learning process which con-
tributes to individual and community empowerment. We believe that all people deserve respect,
dignity, and acceptance; and this organization embodies these values. Therefore, the traditional
Board of Directors of this organization will function as a Guardian of Processes which seeks to
facilitate shared participation and decision making of the staff, volunteers, and Board while up-
holding the legal responsibilities of this organization. The Board of Directors will hereinafter be
named the Guardian Council and all Directors will be named Guardians.

Linda Thorpe President

Joan Stampfl Secretary/Treasurer
Willow Thorpe
Suzanne Praisler
McKenzie Greene
Mary Orlando
Mission

The Center for a Non Violent Community Inc. actively supports the right of all people to live
their lives free from interpersonal violence. We foster healthy relationships with self,
partners, family and peers. We value the feminist principals of self-empowerment over self-
desertion and of shared decision-making over dominance. We are ardently dedicated to
building community which is interdependent, collaborative, respectful of diversity, and
supportive of peaceful solutions to conflict.

Purpose
• To foster a healthy and violence-free community
• To change social norms which contribute to the acceptance of violence and discrimination
• To partner within the community to create safety and healing for those surviving violence
• To impact policies that enhance equal rights, community health, and the prevention of
personal and interpersonal violence
• To promote programs which build personal empowerment and self worth, and contribute to
political and social equality while respecting diversity
Goals
1) Provide education and prevention activities to the community that reduce the incidence of
physical, sexual, emotional violence towards children, each other, and ourselves.
2) Provide primary prevention activities which contribute to changing social norms regarding
violence, gender inequality, or discrimination.
3) Provide intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault,
sexual harassment, child abuse, community violence, and gender inequality.

4) Facilitate systems and policy changes in order to reduce violence.

5) Coordinate and collaborate with other national, state, and local institutions and
organizations in achieving these goals.
 Volunteers
Our Volunteers are the heart of our agency.

They are key to our success in providing service to

the women, men and children in our community.

They continue to share with us their time and their talents.

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• Provided coverage on the 24-hr crisis line, 7 days per weekTot
• Stuffed 27,595 Holiday donation letters
• Staffed the Front Desk 4.5 days a week
• Participated in public speaking engagements, information booths,
advertising outreach, and monthly training
• Provided transportation, court accompaniment, and legal advocacy
• Fundraised $57,962.30
 Fundraising
*Annual Holiday Letter* Theatre Events* Golf Benefit* Beverage Booths*
*Mother’s/Father’s Day Cards* Rummage Sale* Savemart SHARE cards*

In 2009-10 CNVC Fundraising Volunteers raised

$57,692.30
Fundraising Committee
McKenzie Greene
Beth Hatcher
Nancy Horne
Janet Mingo
Marty Olson
Mary Orlando
Suzanne Praisler
Liz Sewell
Denise Story
Linda Thorpe
Willow Thorpe
Sarah Whitney
Bev Woodland

Golf Benefit Committee

Diane & Lloyd Boldeman
Shari Crawford
Karen “KC” Cole
Margaret Gustafson
Sandra Hardy
Bev Olson
Sharon Perras 2009‐2010 Fundraising Revenue
Denise Story $1,835
$1,400
Shirley Wilson-Rose
$3,157

Holiday Letter
$6,155 Golf Benefit
Strawberry Music Festivals

$31,138 Savemart S.H.A.R.E  Cards

$14,006 Rummage Sale
Mother's/Father's Day Cards
 Domestic Violence Services
Service # of people served

• 24-hr Crisis Line calls: 369

• 24-hr Emergency Response: 7

• Emergency Shelter (Women): 69

• Emergency Shelter (Children): 37

• Transitional Shelter (Women): 10

• Transitional Shelter (Children): 17

• Individual Adult Counseling: 260

• Individual Child Counseling: 23

• Domestic Violence Support Group: 69

• Temporary Restraining Order Assistance 156

• Advocacy: 103

She is one of thousands of women across the country; her lips are swollen, her
arm is broken, she has strangulation marks around her neck. She has no pos-
sessions but the clothes on her back. She has suffered physical abuse at the
hands of her partner for years. She finds safety in CNVC’s emergency shelter.
She has four children, ages 4, 5, 6,and 12, who were removed from her care 8
months ago due to the violence and drug use. She is determined to create a vio-
lence free life for herself and her children.

With support and advocacy from staff, she enters a rehab program, graduates,
and returns to the sanctuary of the shelter. With counseling, legal assistance,
and support from CNVC, at the end of six months she is clean and sober and is
reunited with her children; she has a car and a drivers license; she has housing
and employment. Her family is on the road to living healthy, happy lives free
from daily terror.

All families deserve lives free from violence, and CNVC is here to help make that
a reality.
 Sexual Assault Services
Service # of people served

• 24-hr Hotline calls: 49

• Emergency Response: 7

• Individual Counseling: 36

• Group Counseling: 5

• Advocacy: 14

“It was 3am and I was all alone and so scared sitting in a room at
the ER. I was raped, and the deputy brought me here. I didn’t know
what was going to happen.
Then the nurse brought in an Advocate from CNVC. The Advocate
sat with me while I cried, explained everything that the nurse
needed to do for the exam, and held my hand when I needed it.
She gave me comfort, hope, and lots of resources to help me re-
cover from this horrible nightmare. She even gave me clothes and
shoes after they took mine for evidence. Thank you for your com-
passion and caring.”
A Sexual Assault Survivor
Community Education Services
*Dynamics of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault *
*Sexual Harassment Prevention*
*Childhood Trauma & Healing Relationships*
* CNVC Services Overview *

# of presentations Attendees
103 2,381
 Prevention Services
Presentation # of classes # of students

Teen Dating Violence Prevention:

“Healthy Relationships” 74 1,756

Sexual Abuse, Child Abduction, and Personal Safety:

“Keeping Kids Safe” 47 1,153
“Bullying Prevention” 59 2,970
 Suicide Prevention

The Tuolumne County Suicide Prevention Task Force was formed to address the high
number of suicides in Tuolumne County. Tuolumne County has 2.5 times the state aver-
age per 100,000 of suicides each year. Their mission is “to coordinate the planning, im-
plementation and monitoring of projects throughout Tuolumne County that prevent and
reduce the risk of suicide incorporating the core values of integrity, accountability, com-
passion, collaboration and professionalism.”
In keeping with the CNVC mission to foster healthy relationships with self, partners, fam-
ily, and peers, CNVC is contracted to implement the training and education component of
the 3 year strategic plan.

In 2009-2010, the CNVC Staff accomplished:

# of classes # of people
QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Crisis Intervention Training:
• Gatekeeper 31 872
• Triage 2 37
*12 QPR Gatekeeper instructors trained*
* 2 QPR Triage instructors trained*

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST):

2 22
*4 ASIST volunteer instructors trained*

Community Education: 12 352

Suicide Prevention in the Workplace:

1 6
 Child Abuse Treatment Program
“CHAT”
Therapy is an oasis for a child in crisis. Play therapy cultivates a
child’s hidden resources, like finding water in the desert.

From October 2009 through September 2010, CNVC’s 2 li-

censed therapists provided therapy to 69 children. Services
include assessments, treatment plans, advocacy, testimony,
referrals to additional services and collaborating and coordi-
nating with other agencies.
The purpose of the CHAT program is to ameliorate the effects of trauma
which interfere with the child’s emotional, social, educational and cognitive
functioning and development. Play therapy helps to prevent the adaptation
of, or reverse, negative coping mechanisms.

Jorgé (pseudonym), at 9 years was placed in foster care due to domestic vio-
lence, emotional abuse and parental substance abuse. He witnessed his step-
father choking his mother and felt he needed to be the parent to his 3
younger half siblings. Jorgé was depressed, obese, dissociative, failing in
school, isolating himself from his peers, and residing in a fantasy world. He
could express no real emotion, had repressed his pain and feelings, and re-
lated in therapy in a silly, very young, childlike manner. Through the atmos-
phere of the play therapy room this boy explored many mediums of play ther-
apy until he found his avenue of self expression. Eventually he combined his
story telling ability, and the drama of battle in the sand tray. His story of the
sand tray battle was one of pain, fear, isolation, struggle, and eventually hope
that he could win this battle and restore peace in his world. Jorgé discovered
his own self worth, his personal power, and the ability to verbally address his
fears and express his emotions at an age appropriate level. Also he began
making friends at school, and became proactive with stopping the bullying he
had endured.
 Community Support

It is with deep gratitude that we thank the

2000+ individuals, organizations, and businesses
of our community who so generously
donate to help insure our services

Black Oak Casino

C.V.F.D. Ladies Auxillary
Christian Heights Church
Comfort Project Tuolumne County
Davis-King & Associates
Delta Kappa Gamma
Front Porch
Helping Hands of Groveland
Jamestown H.O.G.
Ladies of the Moose
Omega Nu
Pacific State Bank
Pine Needlers Quilt Guild
R.O.O.F.B
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Senior Projects: Sonora High School & Summerville High School
Sierra Bible Church
Sierra Emergency Medical Group
Sierra Quilt Guild
Sonora Hills Bunco Group #1
Sonora United Methodist Church
Soroptimist International of Groveland
Soroptimist International of Sonora
Soroptimist International of Twain Harte
St Mary in the Mountains Episcopal Church
Summit Ranger District Employee Association
The Black Hat Society
Tuolumne Band Of Me-Wuk Indians
Umpqua Bank
Unity Church
Westamerica Bank
Word of Life Fellowship
Xi Mu Gamma
Federal, State & Local Funding Support
Tuolumne County Birth Certificate Funds
Blue Shield Foundation
California Dept. of Education CACFP
California Dept. of Public Health
California Emergency Management Agency
(Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse Treatment)
Tuolumne County CalWorks
HUD Rapid Re-Housing
Tuolumne County Marriage License Fees
Sonora Area Foundation
Tuolumne County Behavioral Health

Funding Support
$57,962
$15,000
$25,586

Federal & State
Local
$161,000
Donation
$809,623 Fundraising
Tshelter Rent