Upcoming Events
#PowerUp with Hope House this October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), and our theme this year, #PowerUp, invites you to recognize your power in making a difference by supporting survivors, connecting them to resources, raising awareness and educating others.
Hope House is busy finalizing details for our first DVAM during a pandemic and hope you will help us make it a success! Please see below and check back as we will be updating this page throughout the month. Be sure to also check out our Facebook page for updates!
Hope House is busy finalizing details for our first DVAM during a pandemic and hope you will help us make it a success! Please see below and check back as we will be updating this page throughout the month. Be sure to also check out our Facebook page for updates!
October 22: #PurpleThursday Donation Drive in Multiple Locations!
Join us on October 22 in wearing purple to raise awareness of domestic violence and consider dropping off items from our #PurpleThursday wish list (see below) at one of our donation drive drop-off sites. Outside of 99.7 MAX FM in Baraboo, they will be doing a live broadcast from 7:30am - 2pm encouraging everyone to stop by and help us stuff the van from Baraboo Motors Group full of donations from our wish list. They'll be accepting donations until 4:30pm. Thank you to our sponsors: Gateway Metabolic, AT&T, McGann Furniture, Baraboo Motors Group, and Hillestad Heating & Cooling! Thank you to Coffee Bean Connections for providing us with coffee and to Culver's for providing free value basket coupons!
Can't make it to Baraboo? No problem! Multiple locations in our service area have also agreed to be drop-off sites on October 22 during their usual business hours.
Can't make it to Baraboo? No problem! Multiple locations in our service area have also agreed to be drop-off sites on October 22 during their usual business hours.
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Locations of #PurpleThursday Donation Drives
Learn more and share on Facebook at our event page. Questions? Call Deb, Hope House's Community Engagement & Volunteer Coordinator, at 608-356-9123 x120 or email her here. |
#PurpleThursday Wish List
Things we need most often and run out of are:
Other needed items:
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October 29: Free, Virtual Training: Supporting Families Who Experience Trauma
October 29 from 10am-noon is a free, virtual training with Tracy Plamann of Harbor House in Appleton on Supporting Families Who Experience Trauma.
The wounds of childhood trauma often drive behavior, feelings, and attitudes into adulthood, and play a powerful role in parenting. This training will help faith leaders and service providers build their capacity for supporting families. Focusing on the needs of parents as well as children, this training encompasses communication skills and techniques, strategies to reduce stress, and ways to promote positive experiences within the family and the church or agency.
To register for this free training, please fill out your information here (or click on the flyer to the left) to get the Zoom link. Questions? Please contact Deb, Hope House's Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator at 608-356-9123 x120 or email her here.
The wounds of childhood trauma often drive behavior, feelings, and attitudes into adulthood, and play a powerful role in parenting. This training will help faith leaders and service providers build their capacity for supporting families. Focusing on the needs of parents as well as children, this training encompasses communication skills and techniques, strategies to reduce stress, and ways to promote positive experiences within the family and the church or agency.
To register for this free training, please fill out your information here (or click on the flyer to the left) to get the Zoom link. Questions? Please contact Deb, Hope House's Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator at 608-356-9123 x120 or email her here.
Purple Sashes Around Trees in Multiple Locations
Look for our awareness signs attached to purple sashes around trees in the following communities:
Look for our awareness signs attached to purple sashes around trees in the following communities:
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More Domestic Violence Awareness Month Activities
- October 27: If you're getting Community Supper at the New Lisbon Community Center "to-go" from 4:30-6pm, look for our DVAM flyer for more information about our services.
- October 29: If you're getting food from the drive-through Sharing Supper at Mauston High School from 5-6pm, look for our DVAM flyer for more information about our services.
- Drive by Hope House to see our domestic violence homicide luminary display. We'll have 72 luminaries in our front yard in recognition of the 72 deaths in Wisconsin in 2019 due to domestic violence. Learn more in End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin's Homicide Report.
- Follow us on Instagram @hopehousescw as we participate in #31daysofDVAM.
- If you're stopping by the Portage Library, the George Culver Library in Sauk City, Kilbourn Library in Wisconsin Dells, Endeavor Library, Reedsburg Library, or Madison College in Portage, be sure to look for Hope House's information trifold display with materials.
- Listen for our radio PSAs on 92.1, 99.7, 106.1, and Magnum stations throughout October.
- Watch for our op-ed in your local newspaper, such as in the Lodi Enterprise.
