Small Items for Children
The Special State Project Committee assembled last week and stuffed 50 small bags that will be given to children as they are being interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center.
Special thanks to Debbie Hinkle for sewing 50 unique drawstring bags, which were filled with a stuffed animal, 2 notepads, crayons, colored pencils, coloring book, pocket tissues and hand sanitizer.
After assembling the bags, the committee delivered the bags to Suzanne Nelson-Hoolahan, the Director and MDT Coordinator of the Gloucester County Child Advocacy Center, who was quite appreciative of our donation. She then gave our committee a tour of the facility, which houses the Special Victims Unit (SVU) of the Gloucester County Prosecutors’ Office. The SVU includes a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, three Detectives, an MDT Coordinator/Victim Witness Advocate, a Forensic Nurse Examiner, a Chief Assistant Prosecutor, two Supervising Assistant Prosecutors and six Assistant Prosecutors. The state-of-the-art facility is quite large and is beautifully decorated.
A special thanks to our members who so enthusiastically and generously donated the items needed to make this project a success.
Special State Project Committee: Denise Pitchford, Debbie Hinkle, Karen Hink, Pixie O’Hara and Jeannette Wood
Total Service Hours & Monies for this project:
23 members * $508 in-kind donations * 61 hours