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The SafeHarbor Child Advocacy Center, which will serve
Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier counties, has received confirmation
from the Internal Revenue Service a nonprofit
501(c)(3) youth organization.
“Quite honestly, we were amazed to have received
word back from the IRS so quickly. From the day the application packet and
filing fees were mailed to the IRS, it took less than 20 days to get an
affirmative answer back," said Barry Fain
of Jefferson County, a founder and member of
SafeHarbor's board of directors. Many applications are returned for
candidates to supply additional information or for other reasons.
"Since we began…
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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October 7, 2005
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 15:19
Summit to be spokesperson for SafeHarbor Featured
Written by KeeYoung Hartley
Pat Head Summitt, University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers
head coach and record setter, has signed on with the SafeHarbor
Child Advocacy
Center as their
official spokesperson for the coming year. SafeHarbor serves child-victims of sexual abuse, physical
abuse and neglect in Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson
and Sevier Counties in Tennessee’s 4th Judicial
District.
Barry
Fain, a co-founder and member of the board of directors for
SafeHarbor, states, “We are
very excited about Pat joining our efforts to help the children of the 4th
Judicial District. Pat understands that sexual abuse, physical abuse
and neglect are significant traumas in a child’s life. …
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Original Publication Date
October 4, 2005
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Area residents have been hard at work
laying the groundwork for the SafeHarbor Child Advocacy Center. And this
week, their hard work as recognized when Lady Vols
basketball coach Pat Summitt has agreed to serve as
spokeswoman.
The child advocacy center would
assist children who are victims of suspected sexual or physical abuse and
severe neglect. It would serve children in Sevier, Jefferson, Cocke and
Grainger counties.
Summitt
has volunteered to record public service announcements encouraging support of
the center. She will also serve as keynote speaker at a fund-raising event to
be held in the spring,…
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September 25, 2005
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Tennessee's First Lady speaks at Gatlinburg event
GATLINBURG - Andrea Conte, Tennessee's first lady and a
strong advocate of Child Advocacy Centers across the state, said Thursday
that she is excited to see a center being started locally and she encourages
support of it.
Conte, wife of Gov. Phil Bredesen,
was in town speaking at the Tennessee Victim Assistance Conference about her
Andrea Walks for Tennessee that raised awareness of child sexual abuse and
raised money for child advocacy centers.
Work is currently underway locally to establish the SafeHarbor Child Advocacy
Center for children in Sevier, Jefferson, Cocke and Grainger…
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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September 24, 2005
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 15:12
Safe Harbor Children’s Advocacy Center now has board, and logo
Written by Gayle Page
The
children’s advocacy center that will serve abused children in the 4th
Judicial District of Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier Counties, is even closer
to becoming a reality as it now has a board of directors, a name, a logo and
an official charter by the State of Tennessee.
The CAC Board
of Directors, with Donna Koester as its president, decided on the name Safe
Harbor Children’s Advocacy Center, Inc., (SHCAC) August 12. The logo, suggested by Barry Fain, was designed by Dave Barnhart of
Creative Touch Graphics in Sevier
County. The logo depicts a lighthouse shining a
beam of…
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September 15, 2005
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 15:11
State, local agencies get behind child advocacy center Featured
Written by Joel Davis
SEVIERVILLE - Efforts to establish a child advocacy
center received a boost Thursday when representatives from Sevier, Jefferson,
Cocke and Grainger counties joined the state in officially signing on to the project.There
have been other failed attempts to establish similar centers in the area, Schmutzer said.
"The difference in this one is
Donna Koester," he said, referring to the project's
task force chairwoman. "She is a mover and a shaker."
The facility, newly named Safe Harbor
Child Advocacy
Center, would assist
children who are victims of suspected sexual or physical abuse and severe
neglect. It would serve children…
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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Original Publication Date
August 20, 2005
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