In honor of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Saving Grace is hosting two presentations designed to make these conversations easier and more effective – one for adults (including parents, teachers, and others) and one for middle and high school-aged youth.
Read MoreThis #GivingTuesday, Saving Grace is raising funds to ensure that someone is always there to answer our Police Line, connecting survivors with life-saving services. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the first $12,000 in donations toward the Saving Grace Police Line will be matched dollar for dollar. The goal is to raise the $24,000 needed to fully fund this vital program.
Read MoreIn honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Saving Grace presents "In Their Shoes," an art exhibit highlighting the experiences of domestic violence survivors and their loved ones. For this exhibit, survivors and their supporters decorated footwear to show what it is like to walk in their shoes. Also included in the project are shoes created by students at Westside Village Magnet School as part of a project on empathy.
Read MoreThis October, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, The Mary Kay Foundation℠ awarded Saving Grace a $20,000 grant to further its efforts to combat domestic violence and provide crisis services throughout Central Oregon. The grant was one of 150 awarded to domestic violence shelters across the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam for a total of $3 million. This year’s highly sought-after grant slate brings the total investment in The Foundation’s annual shelter grant program to nearly $42 million.
Read MoreThe Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation has awarded Saving Grace a $10,000 grant to support Central Oregon parents who have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual assault, or stalking through its supervised visitation and safe exchange program, Mary’s Place.
Read MoreSaving Grace is currently accepting applications for its semi-annual advocacy training. This 40-hour training—held over three weeks in October—prepares volunteers to work directly with survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault seeking services from Saving Grace.
Read MoreRelationship violence and sexual assault don’t just impact adults.
Read MoreIn the mid-1970s, a small group of friends gathered to discuss the problem of domestic violence and sexual assault in Central Oregon. Those conversations sparked a 1975 conference at St. Charles on rape and by 1977, these consciousness-raising efforts led to the founding of Saving Grace.
Read MoreWe are fortunate to be able to offer you a way to DOUBLE the impact of your gift! Our friends, Rachel and Adam Albright have agreed to match all donations (up to $10,000) that are received on or before October 24, 2016.
Read More“Let’s Talk About It.” That’s the simple call to action from Saving Grace this October as the community observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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