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Project: "I Can Work Miracles"
Lighthouse Training Center has announced the expansion of services to Fremont and Custer Counties and the opening of A Positive Connection, the second project of the Lighthouse Training Center.
The new program will offer client pay-for-services—substance abuse counseling and DUI classes.
Debra Lynn Leewaye, founder and president of Lighthouse Training Center explained that the net proceeds from A Positive Connection will be used to support Mi Casa de Transiciones and their programs for victims of domestic abuse.
There was a serious need to find new funding resources since last October (1997), when the DA’s office refused to renew the funds Mi Casa used to pay the counselors both at the safe house and in the non-residential programs.
Since then the program has managed to survive through the creative and innovative use of very committed volunteers and private donations.
Mi Casa’s non-residential program offers free counseling, surplus food delivery and outreach services and a 24 hour crisis pager for anyone who has immediate need for counseling services, as well as project "I Can" for children.
Children in the program attend weekly prevention groups where they are learning positive ways to resolve conflict and generate alternatives for good problem solving. The children also have the opportunity to attend athletic activities weekly.
All fees and uniforms as well as transportation to and from all activities is provided to the at-risk children free-of-charge. Project "I Can" is funded by Temple Hoyne Buell and the Reebok anti-trust grant from the attorney general’s office.
The residential "Safe House" was selected for review by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRC), as one of only fifteen model Creative Approaches programs in the United States because of the successful linkage between domestic violence and substance abuse treatment demonstrated by the intensive therapeutic community approach used in the treatment at the Mi Casa Safe House.
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