Beneficiary
This year, we are making a LARGER impact on our community by supporting 3 local organizations. Rotary supports these organizations and their goals for the year.
Help Now of Osceola, Inc.
Program Description:
Help Now of Osceola, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization that has been serving the needs of domestic violence survivors in Osceola County for 35 years. As the county’s only certified DV Center, Help Now operates a 52-bed safe shelter facility, and Outreach Center, and has an office in the Courthouse to assist with court advocacy and petitions for injunctions. In addition to providing life-saving services for survivors, Help Now is a social change organization striving to end intimate partner violence through community awareness initiatives and prevention programming. Help Now believes that everyone deserves to have a violence-free home. Help Now will use the proceeds to renovate the children’s group room at the shelter.
Samaritan Village, Inc.
Program Description:
Samaritan Village provides a safe place where sexually trafficked women can heal from trauma, recover from addiction, and reclaim their lives to become catalysts for change in their communities. Samaritan Village offers a long-term, trauma-informed, and holistic care model of rehabilitation for survivors and was declared one of the first of its kind in the state of Florida in 2013. Samaritan Village serves adult females, ages 18 and up. Many of the survivors they serve suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance addiction, trauma and mental illness. Samaritan Village provides a holistic model of care and programs components to address the whole woman at no cost to a victim or to her family. In Central Florida there is a lack of safe homes and long-term care for adult survivors of sex trafficking. In fact, there are less than 10 beds designated to long-term care, and out of those 10 beds Samaritan Village has 6 of them. There is one safe home, allowing up to six victims to live and rehabilitate for 12 to 18 months. Samaritan Village will use the proceeds to divide between 6 women survivors enrolled in the long-term program, directing the money specifically to therapeutic care.
Community Hope Center
Program Description:
The mission of Community Hope Center is to end homelessness and restore hope to individuals and families living in homelessness and poverty in Osceola County. They empower clients on the path of self-determined stability through advocacy, and access to resources like housing assistance, employment services, life skills training, ID services, and more. Most of the families that are helped live in hotels and motels along 192, sleep in their cars, tents or on park benches. Community Hope Center will use the proceeds to help house four families who are working towards their dream of housing stability.
Help Now of Osceola, Inc.
Program Description:
Help Now of Osceola, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization that has been serving the needs of domestic violence survivors in Osceola County for 35 years. As the county’s only certified DV Center, Help Now operates a 52-bed safe shelter facility, and Outreach Center, and has an office in the Courthouse to assist with court advocacy and petitions for injunctions. In addition to providing life-saving services for survivors, Help Now is a social change organization striving to end intimate partner violence through community awareness initiatives and prevention programming. Help Now believes that everyone deserves to have a violence-free home. Help Now will use the proceeds to renovate the children’s group room at the shelter.
Samaritan Village, Inc.
Program Description:
Samaritan Village provides a safe place where sexually trafficked women can heal from trauma, recover from addiction, and reclaim their lives to become catalysts for change in their communities. Samaritan Village offers a long-term, trauma-informed, and holistic care model of rehabilitation for survivors and was declared one of the first of its kind in the state of Florida in 2013. Samaritan Village serves adult females, ages 18 and up. Many of the survivors they serve suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance addiction, trauma and mental illness. Samaritan Village provides a holistic model of care and programs components to address the whole woman at no cost to a victim or to her family. In Central Florida there is a lack of safe homes and long-term care for adult survivors of sex trafficking. In fact, there are less than 10 beds designated to long-term care, and out of those 10 beds Samaritan Village has 6 of them. There is one safe home, allowing up to six victims to live and rehabilitate for 12 to 18 months. Samaritan Village will use the proceeds to divide between 6 women survivors enrolled in the long-term program, directing the money specifically to therapeutic care.
Community Hope Center
Program Description:
The mission of Community Hope Center is to end homelessness and restore hope to individuals and families living in homelessness and poverty in Osceola County. They empower clients on the path of self-determined stability through advocacy, and access to resources like housing assistance, employment services, life skills training, ID services, and more. Most of the families that are helped live in hotels and motels along 192, sleep in their cars, tents or on park benches. Community Hope Center will use the proceeds to help house four families who are working towards their dream of housing stability.
