​       What is DVIP and Why Our Support?
  You may have noticed that DVIP (Domestic Violence Intervention Program) is listed on the monthly events as the special offering for this month. So perhaps you might wonder about this organization since we have also contributed our offerings from our Hymn Sing and Pie and Ice Cream events each August to this cause. So here's a little more information about DVIP.


  • The mission of DVIP is "Support for victim-survivors and their loved ones available in Johnson, Iowa, Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren and Washington Counties".
  • This organization has been helping victims since receiving a grant to begin in 1977. 
  • In 1980 a shelter was opened offering counseling and a 24-hour crisis line helping the organization grow and add staff.
  • ​In 1986 a “mandatory arrest law” went into effect, and the arrest rate increased by 54% in a six month time period. DVIP then experienced a 300% increase in requests for service.
  • As needed services continued to grow, in 2015 DVIP was awarded a national grant from RedRover to expand support services, helping establish Cooper’s House: kennel services in our emergency shelter for our client’s pets. Even before Cooper’s House, DVIP helped facilitate pet fostering and raise funds for pet essentials such as food and medical treatment.
  • And just last year saw construction of Terry Fortman Emergency Shelter completed, doubling the capacity of the 1993 shelter. DVIP was then able to transition to DVIP & RVAP, to offer support to victim-survivors of sexual abuse throughout Southeastern Iowa.


Friends in our Meeting feel like this is a very worthy cause for our added support!




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Anniversaries

October 8: Tony and Erin Senio

October 11: Judy Ellyson and Don

                       Swartzendruber

October 15: Erik and Stacey Alvarez

October 21: Mike Torkelson and 

​                           Mary Denmead

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       This Month's Birthdays:​​​​

        October 2: Doug Schneider

          October 4: Jasper Alvarez

 ​          October 10: Emily (Hemingway) Kim

           October 17: Joan Blundall,

                                Lucy Hansen,

                         and Benjamin Lewis

           October 27: Deborah Dee

           October 29: Andrea Lewis

           

          

           

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