Offering Help & Hope for Women & Families
TESSA’s mission is to help women and their children achieve safety and well-being while challenging communities to end sexual and family violence.
We do three things:
1. Provide immediate safety for women, children and other victims escaping abuse.
2. Empower survivors through programs and support such as advocacy and counseling.
3. Create a safer future through education and outreach to schools, businesses, and other organizations.
On Saturday, January 28th, Whole Foods on N. Academy will be hosting a cell phone donation drive for TESSA! Bring your cell phones to:
Whole Foods
7635 N. Academy Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
TESSA will have a table with information and hand-outs! Please come and donate!
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TESSA is a proud partner agency of the Pikes Peak United Way
Visit www.ppunitedway.org for more information about social services in the Colorado Springs metropolitan area!
TESSA is a proud member of the Coalition for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect
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It’s Your Business:
What Your Organization Needs to Know about Domestic Violence
Domestic violence rates in southern Colorado are rising rapidly. Colorado Springs also has the highest rate of sexual assault in Colorado. Read the whole story.
Domestic violence and sexual assault are not an easy topics to address, but with 1 in 6 households affected by domestic violence, and 1 in 4 women in Colorado becoming victims of sexual assault, it is a prevalent social ill that our friends, neighbors, and coworkers face every day.
TESSA provides 45-minute brown-bag appropriate training sessions for businesses, churches, and other organizations. Participants gain a deeper understanding about the prevalence of domestic violence, its impact on the workplace and on the community as a whole. Topics include how to recognize and respond to domestic violence, domestic violence laws and definitions, how to craft a workplace policy inclusive of employee safety from such violence. For more information, contact Connie via email, or phone 785-6806.
Could violence be part of your teen’s
social life or dating relationship?
1 in 4 high-school age girls in the U.S. are victims of sexual or physical violence from their dating partners. It is critical that we talk to our daughters AND sons about healthy relationships. Click here to download information about how to start the conversation with your kids about teen dating violence.
TESSA is a proud member of the Stratton Consortium. For more information on this consortium, click here.
Want to Volunteer for TESSA?
Click here to find out how
Thank you all for participating in Colorado Gives Day!
In just 24 hours, TESSA raised $7,500, thanks to the generosity of donors and supporters like yourself. Because of you, TESSA can provide services to victims in our community.
Thank you all for your support!
Your community, your passion, fueled by you.
TESSA Launches Donation Partnership with SunShare!
You can help TESSA save lives by going green!
TESSA is launching Give Light to Save Lives, a donation partnership with community solar company SunShare. Donors can sponsor panels (in part or in whole) for TESSA in the SunShare solar garden. This clean, renewable energy saves us money, which we can use to help women and children in crisis. The cumulative savings from sponsoring one solar panel matches the cost of providing one woman with one month of safe shelter.
To donate, visit the online donation form and leave a comment letting us know that the money should go toward solar energy.
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Be the difference for victims of sexual and domestic violence and VOLUNTEER!! Trainings will also be held in April/May, July, and September/October 2012. |
