Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Life Saving Services to Seacoast

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. - June 13, 2013 - PRLog -- Community Invited to Celebrate at Anniversary Dance Party

The Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center is hosting a Dance Party Celebration on Friday June 21st at Mission Oak Grill’s Steeple Hall from 7pm – midnight.  The party is intended to celebrate the Center’s 30 years of service to our community.  This celebration will be the final event of the Center’s year-long commemoration of its 30th Anniversary awareness and education campaign, funded by our partner, the Institution for Savings.

Over the last three decades, the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center has celebrated many milestones and accomplishments.  What began as a handful of volunteers in the basement of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 1982 has evolved into a $2M non-profit agency, staffed by 24 professionals and dozens of trained volunteers who locally serve more than 1,400 clients each year – providing all of our services to our clients at no cost because we cannot allow a person’s ability to pay to ever become a barrier to victims of domestic violence.  

“The 30th anniversary of the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center provides an opportunity to thank our local community supporters and volunteers, it is you that makes our progress possible.  We are looking forward to raising a toast to the Center, celebrating with friends and honoring the strength and resilience of those we serve,” states Suzanne Dubus, CEO, Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center.

We begin our 4th decade with a request from the Obama Administration to play a lead role in the national conversation about domestic violence homicide prevention by sharing what we know with our peers. The end result will be a significant number of lives saved in our community, in our state and in our country.  We are committed to ending family violence in our community and to do this the Center will expand its youth prevention programs.  The Center will continue to provide its healthy relationship workshops, further develop its Girls Inc. of the Seacoast Area program, and pilot its new boys’ education program.  Youth prevention speaks to the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center’s belief that if we do our jobs as fully as possible, then we must not only provide services to victims, we must work with the next generation to show them a better way of achieving healthy relationships.

The Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center 30th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Friday, June 21, between 7 p.m. and midnight at the Mission Oak Grill’s Steeple Hall, Newburyport.  Come and enjoy cocktails, H’ors d’ouevres and dancing.  There will be a limited live auction and raffle.  Reservations to attend the event are $75 per person.  Corporate sponsorship opportunities are available as well as opportunities to purchase a “year” of the center.  Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased online at www.jeannegeigercrisiscenter.org or by contacting Kelly Majewski at 978-465-0999 or kmajewski@jeannegeigercrisiscenter.org

For 30 years, the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center has been helping individuals and families at risk because of domestic violence. What began as the compassionate mission of several volunteer parishioners of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Newburyport in 1982 has grown into a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization serving victims of domestic violence from Amesbury, Merrimac, Georgetown, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, West Newbury, Haverhill, and Groveland. The mission of the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center is to empower community members to live free from fear, intimidation, violence or the threat of abuse by providing support, advocacy, and education. For more information, call 978-465-0999, visit www.jeannegeigercrisiscenter.org or call the 24-hour confidential crisis hotline at 978-388-1888.