January 2012
Dear Friends,
We look back on a wonderful year of growth at the agency with gratitude.
Thanks to increased volunteerism and new partnerships, we are able to increase our services to families by 10%
This past year, F.A.C.E.S. partnered with Community Action Partnership, Orange County and Families and Communities Together (FaCT) to help families in Orange with family problems, to prevent child abuse. F.A.C.E.S. therapists are available every day at the El Modena Family Resource Center, counseling families, and providing group work.
Our volunteers, Bill Skahill, grant writer, Karen Lorenz, volunteer coordinator, and Rick Jochum, development member of our Board of Directors, have enhanced and strengthened F.A.C.E.S. capacity to serve more families. Their joint efforts have built better internal organizational enhancements.
We look forward to the new year with renewed energy and two events which will engage more community members in our mission. The Court Appreciation Event, Chaired by Attorney Suanne Honey, will take place January 12th at Dave usters in Orange, and the Hearts in Action Breakfast will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Fullerton, CA. For more information please contact either Suanne Honey or Karen Lorenz
Divorce help is sometimes needed right away. F.A.C.E.S. counselors have expertise on handling the crisis of stress over sharing custody.
.
F.A.C.E.S. is a premiere community based counseling agency dedicated to the mental health and emotional well-being of every child in the country through our professional services, literature and outreach programs. Our unique focus on the single parent family provides us with skills necessary to ensure a standard of care and professional counseling environment for these special needs children.
Our mission is to prevent family violence and build safer family environments for children.
Our 25 classes and support groups each week, the hundreds of counseling sessions and the monitored visits keep our 60 volunteers very busy. If you have divorce problems or custody problems, FACES is a place to recieve hope and healing in these areas.
If you have a friend struggling with the aftermath of a breakup, divorce problems or custody problems, please refer them to our services or reading materials.
Your sponsorship of our events will play a valuable role in achieving the goals for the children.
Thank you for your support and encouragement over the years. We just celebrated 24 years of service to our community on November 11th. In order to supplant the low cost counseling fees, we need community support, grants, fundraising participation from the whole community.
I started as a volunteer at F.A.C.E.S. and now I serve as Executive Director. I need your help to keep F.A.C.E.S. a vibrant, helping agency for many years to come. We can't do that without many volunteers and donors.
We invite you to join us in volunteering, or donating to F.A.C.E.S. efforts to help families in crisis. You can be a force that makes a difference in the lives of children.
Michelle
Michelle Absi
Executive Director
