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 Safe Home Network fetes Web site
The Community Alliance Against Family Abuse's Safe Home Network will host a community celebration in honor of its new resource directory Web site during its quarterly meeting Jan. 19. The Human Services Resource Directory for Northern Pinal County, www.NPCresources.org, will include information about human services resources, churches and support groups in Apache Junction, Florence, Gold Canyon, Johnson Ranch, Queen Creek, Queen Valley and Superior. The public meeting will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at John Calvin Presbyterian Church, 1130 E. Broadway Ave., Apache Junction, across the street from Central Arizona College. Tesha Hensley, director of community partnerships, said that it is an ongoing project therefore agencies are invited to submit information to be included on the Web site. To do so, call Gayle Gardner at (480) 982-0205. "We're going to be celebrating the Web site being up and available to the community," Ms. Hensley said. "It's going to be an ongoing process. ... There's going to be a function where you can insert a date with the last time you looked at it or printed information and what will come up is all the agency forms that have either been changed or are brand new to the Web site." CAAFA's Safe Home Network is comprised of more than 100 partners representing 16 different sectors of the community including law enforcement, social service agencies and private citizens. Ms. Hensley said the network builds on the assets of the community, while increasing awareness of domestic abuse and improving access to essential resources. "Its resource committee, which consists of both private citizens and representatives from nine community agencies, was formed after CSHN partners recognized limited knowledge of resources as a major community challenge. It began meeting in June 2004 to proactively address this barrier," she said. Besides the Web site, the directory will be available as a binder with hard copies of the information provided. Four hundred binders will be distributed to northern Pinal County communities in the "near future," she said. "The strength about this directory is that it is Web-based and will not only allow professionals and community members to view and search for information pertinent to their needs, but users can download regular updates of agencies' information and incorporate the new or updated pages into their hardcopy binders." On Jan. 5, United Way of Pinal County donated $10,000 to the resource committee to aid in the resource directory. "United Way of Pinal County is excited to be involved in a project that not only benefits the entire community, but was developed by a local network of collaborating agencies," said Bill Ludeke, United Way of Pinal County's executive director. "Putting referral information into the hands of all community members is a better way to make an investment." Post your comment on this issue at http://newsblog.info/0101/. News editor Christina Fuoco can be reached at (480) 982-7799 or cfuoco@newszap.com.
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