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Benefit Concert Will Honor Grace Center's Work With Survivors of Domestic Violence
Posted on: 09/17/
LOS ANGELES -- Music legends David Crosby and Graham Nash will headline an all-star benefit event on Oct. 4, honoring the work of the Pasadena-based Grace Center, a non-profit organization serving women and children afflicted by domestic violence.
This intimate acoustic show will also feature singer-songwriters Paula Cole, Julia Fordham and Judith Owen. The concert caps a gala fundraising dinner and auction chaired by Grace Center's board president Marilyn Wells and husband John Wells, producer of award-winning series including "ER" and "The West Wing." The evening will be hosted by television stars Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek.
Founded in by Katrina Carter, Grace Center's mission is to empower women to break the cycle of family violence by providing non-shelter-based assistance to survivors of domestic violence and their children (95% of all spousal abuse cases involve women abused by male partners). Cutting across all economic and ethnic boundaries, domestic violence affects 28% of the population in the United States -- this staggering greater-than-1-in-4 statistic also applies to the arena of teen dating. What's more, children from homes where domestic violence exists are physically and sexually abused and/or neglected at a rate of 15 times the national average -- over three million children are at risk of being harmed by parental violence annually. Among the many invaluable services provided by Grace Center are emergency response, crisis intervention and counseling, a wide array of support groups, and shelter/safe house, medical, legal and social service referrals.
"One of the things I believe makes our program special," says Marilyn Wells, who also started the clinical program at Grace Center, "is that we reach out to women early, to hopefully intervene before things take a tragic turn. We also work to get women and their children in therapy together, which really helps. We're honored to have such a wonderful assemblage of talent for our fundraiser this year, it will benefit us immeasurably in our efforts."
Last year, at three different locations throughout the San Gabriel Valley, Grace Center assisted over 800 individuals from families affected by the cycle of domestic violence. For more information about the benefit event, call or log on to: www.grace-center.org.
Source: Grace Center
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