Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence

Hi all, Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence needs your help! Big cuts are coming to the federal funding that supports domestic violence and sexual assault programs like ours, so this year's Moonlight Masquerade fundraiser is more important than ever. If you are an individual or business owner who'd be willing to sponsor our event, we have some great packages available! (And remember, the sooner you sponsor, the longer promo time you'll have on our website and social media platforms! 😉 ) We are also in need of silent auction items and just help in promoting our event. Here's a link to see our sponsorship package and order form: https://gccfn.org/MM24/MM24-Sponsor-Package.pdf
If you have a local business and you'd be willing to allow us to hang one of our 11x17 event posters in your storefront window, please give me a shout here or at [email protected] and I'll happily drop one off. Thanks so much, we couldn't do what we do without the help of our Coast community!

Thanks to everyone who came out to support our yard sale, and thanks to our Chief Advocacy Officer Sarah Jones for all her hard work on this event!

Yard sale to support Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence - WXXV News 25 The Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence hosting a garage sale in Gulfport. Head out to 14718 Canal Loop in Gulfport to see if you can find anything you live while also giving to the community. Today’s sale wrapped up at 4 PM, but Saturday sees another garage sale! All proceeds are donated to the Gul...

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We hope to see you there on Friday and Saturday!

Thank you for the support, Vivid Volumes Bookshop! Friends, please come out to meet contemporary fiction author Tiffini Johnson at the shop on September 6th and help raise funds for Adrienne's House!

Right now, one of the biggest movies in the country features a storyline centered on domestic violence, and it's creating a lot of conversations about DV. If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence (or still healing from it and in need of support), please know we're here to help. All our services for survivors are free and totally confidential. If you are someone who doesn't need our services but wants to know how to help those impacted by DV, there are lots of ways you can help:

• Share our crisis line number with anyone who could use shelter or support (800-800-1396)
• Believe survivors when they disclose what's happened to them
• Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves
• Join our effort to open Mississippi’s 1st Family Justice Center
• Help us launch the 1st Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board in MS
• Join our Voices Committee (made up of those with lived experience)
• Help us start the Coast’s only Forensic Medical Clinic
• Help solicit investment in this cause
• Volunteer with GCCFN
• Donate to our agency or send those who are interesting in making financial donations our way
• Like, comment, and share our social media content to help it reach more people who may need us

Did you know that every time you shop on Walmart.com, you can now round up your change and donate it to GCCFN? Small acts can lead to big impact! Customers shopping on Walmart.com or in the Walmart app can round up their purchase at checkout and have the change donated to our Center by selecting GCCFN. You can check out our profile at https://www.walmart.com/nonprofits/7de9cbb7-4f79-4740-a5de-de4c6a958c9c/profile

Fantastic day at Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence working together to assist victims. L->R: Myia Lane (Client Services Manager), Julie Davenport (Crisis Counselor), Kim Hogan (CHRT Director) and Charlotte Arrowsmith (SOARing in MS grant human trafficking Care Coordinator)!

It’s always so difficult to fully convey the gravity of domestic violence in our small Gulf Coast Community and the limited resources available. This article from SunHerald did accomplish shining a bright light on this issue and the many challenges we have in combatting it, all on top of knowing we (along with all over victim service agencies across the state/country) will suffer a large reduction of funds next year. There are MANY ways that you can help us outside of financial contributions.

Speak up for those who cannot speak up
for themselves
Join our effort to open Mississippi’s 1st
Family Justice Center
Believe Survivors
Help us launch the 1st Domestic Violence
Fatality Review Board in MS
Join our Voices Committee (made up of
those with lived experience)
Help start the Coast’s only Forensic Medical
Clinic
Help solicit INVESTMENT in this cause
Volunteer
Send those who are interesting is making
financial donations our way

Here’s the email to our CEO, Stacey Riley [email protected]. Reach out! Speak out!

We're so excited to announce the theme for this year's event will be... Moonlight Masquerade: Wicked Wonderland! Watch this space for upcoming information on ticketing, sponsorship, silent auction, and our art contest!

FB friends, our Center has been nominated for a Jackson County Chamber ANCHOR Award! Would you take a moment to show us your support and lend your vote? Polling closes tomorrow but you can vote as many times as you wish! Thanks :)

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Thank you, Martha Sanchez and SunHerald , for helping bring awareness to our shelter programs, the challenges we face, and the urgency of need in serving victims of domestic violence here on the Coast!

There’s little money and less space. MS Coast domestic violence shelters are always full South Mississippi shelters rarely turn anyone away. Still, the calls keep coming.

Hi all, it's that time of year again! Our children in the shelter are preparing to return to school and could really use your help in getting together their supplies to start off the year with everything they need. We've put together an Amazon list at https://a.co/gDRCcgp to make shopping easy, or you can purchase items elsewhere and drop them off at our office at 213 Porter Avenue in Biloxi anytime 8-5 Monday - Friday. As always, we appreciate our generous Coast community and all you do for us every day! Here is our needs list:

-3 ring binders
-composition notebooks and spiral notebooks
-backpacks (larger capacity for teenagers, clear and regular backpacks, and for elementary school age)
-crayons
-pencils
-plastic folders with prongs
-dividers
-pens
-loose leaf paper
-notebooks (college and wide rule)
-highlighters
-colored pencils
-zip lock bags
-earbuds and headphones
-erasers, and cap erasers
-post its
-pencil boxes and pencil punches
-pencil pouches with zippers
-scissors

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We've just become aware that our 1-800 toll free number is answering as disconnected when people attempt to call our crisis line. We are investigating this and hope to have the issue resolved as quickly as possible. In the interim, rest assured that our crisis lines are still available and are staffed for anyone who needs to contact us for assistance. You can still reach us 24/7 at our local numbers:

Harrison County (Jane's House): 228-435-1968
Jackson County (Adrienne's House): 228-762-8267

We are proud to report that we have begun to include Peer Support Specialists into our services. This week we hosted a peer support training in conjunction with Mental Health Association of South Mississippi and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. Some of our staff and our Voices members have received this valuable training. We know the true value of having people with lived experience brings to any agency’s services. We will host more of these training in the next few months.

Another group of Peer Support Specialists were trained this week to help others recover at the Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence, and at other organizations along the Gulf Coast and the state!
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Mark your calendars! The 14th Annual Moonlight Masquerade will be an elegant, spooky event you won't want to miss. Watch this space for more event, ticketing, and sponsorship information coming soon!

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One of the biggest hurdles that domestic violence survivors face in their journey to a violence free life is the lack of transportation. Having a reliable car is the key to opening so many doors for those who are attempting to break free. When we received the phone call from Steed's Collision Center about their wish to donate a car to one of our clients, we were speechless. Today, we got to witness the complete surprise on the face of one of our housing program clients when it was announced that she would be receiving the donation of a car. We can't explain to you just how much of an impact this will make on her life and the lives of her children. Our agency was just one of many who received the kindness of a donation as part of the grand opening of their Ocean Springs location. If you have a car that you would like to donate to the Center for one of our clients, please give us a call and help us make a difference in someone's life.

Happy Pride Month! GCCFN celebrates the diversity in our community and is always committed to our vision of a world free from violence for everyone. We are here 24/7 to provide safe shelter and support services to anyone who needs us in order to escape or recover from domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, or loss of a loved one to homicide. 800-800-1396

We're so grateful to the women of the Pretty Girl Wranglhers Jeep Club for choosing to honor our Center with their donation drive! These amazing ladies stopped by our walk-in location to deliver all the incredible supplies they'd collected from our wish list, and we couldn't be more appreciative. Thanks so much!

Our nonprofit spotlight for the 100 Successful Women to Know 2024 Luncheon is Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence!

The Center opened as a safe house in 1977, providing help to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Since then, the Center has grown to be the largest, most comprehensive program in the State of Mississippi.

• More than 20,500 women, children, and men have received services through shelter and non-residential programs since it opened.
• Approximately 12,000 children, adolescents, and adults attend violence prevention sessions annually.
• Their 24-hour crisis line receives over 15,000 calls per year requesting assistance and information.

They serve the six southernmost counties of Mississippi: Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, Pearl River, George, and Stone Counties.

All services for victims are free of charge and completely confidential.

For more info, visit http://www.gccfn.org/

Thanks so much to Episcopal Church of the Redeemer for your amazing support!

Happening Saturday, May 18: Gulf Coast Center of Nonviolence hosting annual spring fundraiser The Gulf Coast Center of Nonviolence will host its annual spring fundraiser this weekend.

We're getting excited! We hope to see you all on Saturday night at 2024! We have some great entertainment and island fun lined up for you, with music by DJ Doobie Derouen and a special performance by Myra Ancheta! Not to mention - a fabulous BBQ menu with pulled pork prepared by D'Iberville Police Department. Don't miss out, tickets are just $35! https://bit.ly/Drawdown2024