Third Annual Benefit Raises Nearly $9,000
On April 25, 2009 we held our third annual Celebration of Life Benefit, in memory of Katie, at Cherry Grove Bowling Lanes.
We raised almost $9,000!
KHF donated $6,000 to the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The Mayerson Center is dedicated to prevention, evaluation, treatment and research of child abuse and neglect.
We also awarded a $2,500 scholarship to a student in the University of Cincinnati's Speech and Language Pathology program. We even donated to Katie’s corner library at Willowville Elementary School (recipient of 2007 benefit proceeds), and made a small donation to the Jeffrey G. Hoeh Memorial Fund, a non-profit organization that helps children struggling with cancer.
It was another successful event, and we are grateful, as always, for our community's ongoing support!
UPDATE from Erica Pearl, PsyD, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, on how the Katie Haumesser Foundation donation will be used: The Hamilton County YWCA offers short and long-term housing and support for battered women and their children who have moved beyond an emergency phase where they resided in a battered women’s shelter and are making the transition to independent living. The transitional living program offers these women and children: furnished apartments for 6-18 months, advocacy and case management, employment resource program, support and aftercare services, and a children's program. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy will be used by Erica Pearl, PsyD and Robin Gurwitch, PhD with mothers and children at the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter Transitional Living Program.
Specifically, the $6,000 Katie Haumesser Foundation donation to The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children in 2009 will be used to: Purchase toys for use in PCIT treatment; Purchase equipment necessary for PCIT treatment; Purchase measures to evaluate PCIT; Cover minimal professional time for providing intervention, data entry, and data analysis of the program (the majority of the professional time will be donated or billed to third party payor sources)