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The Deacon Bob Racicot Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, August 18, 2012 at Inn of the Mountain Gods. Racicot and HEAL executive director Coleen Widell came up with the idea of a charity tournament while playing golf together, but it took several years of enthusiastic planning by the pair to make it a reality. This is the third year …
For the past five years, Lisa McMinn of First Savings Bank has spearheaded a food drive for residents of the Nest. Beginning in early November, McMinn posts donation jars and flyers around the bank to encourage bank customer’s to contribute to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the residents of the Nest. On Tuesday, and to the delight of a nearly …
The Nest recently conducted a tour of the domestic violence shelter for a large group of nursing professors and students from the University of Guanajuato in Celaya, Mexico. Five nursing students and five psychology students as well as their instructors, traveled to Ruidoso in September to study humanism with Barbara Mader of the High Mesa Healing Center in Alto. The …
Back by popular demand, Sweet Charity is offering custom-designed holiday wreaths. The wreaths are on display at Sweet Charity with opening bids starting at $25. According to Susanne Francis, Office Manager for HEAL, “The wreaths are unique in every way – no two are the same. Celina de la Garza created the wreaths, as she did last year. They are …
The Nest offers an ongoing support group for victims and survivors of domestic violence who are not in shelter. The group is called Woman to Woman, or “W2W”, and meets every Wednesday from 2-3 PM at the Sweet Charity Resale Boutique. The group is facilitated by one of the Nest’s professionally trained, bilingual advocates. It focuses on providing support …
Help End Abuse for Life (HEAL) is proud to announce two employees who were nominated for the national advocacy recognition, the Unsung Shero Award. A Shero is a woman who is an advocate for empowering other women, or supporting positive change for women, and who may have experienced or been a victim of domestic abuse. It is an annual campaign …
The month of October is national Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As this important month comes to a close, Help End Abuse for Life (HEAL) would like to celebrate and honor the men in Lincoln County who are visionaries of a future free of violence and oppression. HEAL is the nonprofit organization that operates the Nest Domestic Violence Shelter in Ruidoso …
Ruidoso News (NM) – Monday, September 26, 2011 Author/Byline: Dianne Stallings dstallings@ruidosonews.com Section: News A domestic violence survivor herself, 12th Judicial Assistant District Attorney Joanna Zimmerman doesn’t need to brush up on the psychological forces driving such incidents, she’s been there. Her job is to determine the proper charge in each case and to seek a conviction, if warranted. A …
Ruidoso News (NM) – Monday, September 12, 2011 Author/Byline: Dianne Stallings dstallings@ruidosonews.com Section: News Debbie Haines-Nix never realized the malevolent ripple effect of domestic violence until she learned that 73 percent of young male offenders at the former Camp Sierra Blanca rehabilitation center near Fort Stanton were exposed to domestic violence in their pasts. “We had angry broken-hearted boys,” she …
Ruidoso News (NM) – Saturday, September 17, 2011 Author/Byline: Dianne Stallings dstallings@ruidosonews.com Section: News Sometimes Nancy La Pointe may only have one shot at trying to inspire or motivate a woman who seeks refuge from domestic violence at The Nest. The victim may leave the next day, but as trauma recovery educator at the shelter in Ruidoso Downs, La Pointe …