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Giving Thanks for the JOY You Make Possible
As we pause to share our gratitude at this time of Thanksgiving, we want to thank you for supporting our work. Today, with our deepest and heartfelt gratitude, we are proud to share our report on the Joyful Heart Foundation’s 2012 – 2013 accomplishments.
Big Plans for 2013
2013 is just around the corner and we know now, more than ever, how necessary and important our work is. Thanks to supporters like you, in 2013 we will continue to heal and empower survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse and the professionals who serve them. We will extend and grow our reach and we will respond to new community needs.
Heal the Healers Profile: Judi McCreary
Judi McCreary is a producer and writer who has penned plots for many primetime dramas, including Law & Order: SVU, a task that takes her into the darkest precincts of what human beings can do.
Signs of Vicarious Trauma
Feeling Helpless and Hopeless “It’s really hard for me to get out of bed in the morning.”
A Sense that One Can Never Do Enough “There is no way I can ever get all the work done that I should.”
Hypervigilance “I must keep my guard up at all times to keep myself and those around me safe.”
Diminished Creativity “I can’t seem to come up with even a single possible solution to this problem.”
Inability to Embrace Complexity “There is good and bad, right and wrong.”
Heal the Healers Profile: John Prendergast
John Prendergast is Co-founder of Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American Progress. John is co-author with Don Cheadle of the forthcoming Random House book, "The Enough Moment." He sat down with Reunion's Editor-at-Large, Peter Hermann, to discuss his lifelong commitment to helping those in need.
Heal the Healers Profiles: Elena Hull and Rebekah Windmiller
Rebekah Windmiller is an Expressive Arts Therapist, a licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York State, and the Director of the New York Expressive Arts Studio Community Workshop.
Heal the Healers Profile: Sarah Tofte
Sarah Tofte is a researcher on sexual violence for Human Rights Watch who wrote last year’s report exposing the rape kit backlog in Los Angeles and across the country.
Heal the Healers Profile: Yolanda Jimenez
Yolanda Jimenez has been the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence in New York City since 2002.
Heal the Healers Profile: Oscar Smith
Oscar Smith is a member of the NYPD Scuba Team. He sat down with Reunion’s Peter Hermann, to talk about his work and the toll it takes.
Heal the Healers Profile: Elena Hull
Elena Hull is a licensed creative arts therapist, a licensed marriage and family therapist and the clinical director of Midtown Marriage and Family Therapy center. She is also a Retreat Specialist with Joyful Heart and helped to create the Foundation’s retreat model.
