Thank you, InterAct volunteers!
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Every day, volunteers arrive for their shifts at InterAct, greeting clients at the guest services desk, supporting survivors during sexual assault forensic exams in the Solace Center, guiding clients through the Wake County Courthouse, and answering the crisis line 24/7.
To do this, every volunteer completes 20 hours of training and shadowing and commits to at least a year of work and weekly shifts. Many do much more than this.
During the last fiscal year, InterAct's 50-plus volunteers and interns logged 11,341 hours of service. We can't thank you enough!
If you are interested in a volunteer commitment that is as fulfilling as it is demanding, we are looking for more sexual assault response advocates in the Solace Center and more crisis counselors on the crisis line. Please email volunteer@interactofwake.org to express your interest.
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Hayes Barton Neighborhood Food Drive
tops 6,000 pounds of food and supplies
for InterAct and Oberlin Road Food Pantry
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The annual Hayes Barton Neighborhood Food Drive on April 18 resulted in a banner day for area food pantries.
Spearheaded by Bill Harazin, the food drive involves neighbors across the Hayes Barton district gathering specific food items and supplies and taking the bags they collect to one of a network of block chairmen. At the appointed hour, drivers pick up the donations on the block chairmen's porches and deliver them.
This year, Wilson Temple served as the drop off point for the new Oberlin Road Food Pantry, a project of the Oberlin Road churches group: White Memorial Presbyterian, Wilson Temple UMC, St. John's Baptist, Oberlin Road Baptist, and Fairmount UMC.
InterAct was the second drop-off point, where volunteers from the Wake County Democrats were waiting to unload, weigh, and sort the outpouring. This was the second year the Dems helped out, and they knew exactly what to do, making short work of the job.
The next day, InterAct's regular pantry volunteers from White Memorial arrived to organize the donations and stock the pantry shelves.
The beneficiaries will be shelter families, clients in need, and families moving to new homes. We thank everyone who made this possible, and we look forward to next year!
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JMP delivers urgently needed items to InterAct's pantry
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JMP (pronounced jump) held a month-long donation drive in March for InterAct, focusing on items of urgent need. Their delivery filled one side of the pantry, as seen at left, with JMP senior global academic program manager Pany Allen and InterAct development officer Walker Mabe.
Since 1989, JMP has combined interactive visualization with powerful statistics to help people see their data more clearly. Scientists and engineers use JMP software to advance green-energy technologies, speed cancer therapies to market, and build high-performance infrared detectors for probes that traverse the vastness of deep space. JMP is a SAS company.
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Volunteers assist with mammoth food drive
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A group of local volunteers from the Wake County Democratic Party spent their Saturday afternoon at InterAct unloading, unpacking, sorting, and stacking donations from the Hayes Barton Neighborhood Food Drive. The group was on hand "strictly to work and have a nice time (and NOT to talk politics)," according to seveal of the volunteers.
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NCSU Take Back the Night is a highlight of SAAM
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InterAct staff and volunteers participated in NCSU's annual Take Back the Night event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April. The event featured organizations both on and off campus that provide services and resources related to sexual assault. The night started with tabling and progressed into a march, a vigil, a survivor circle, and closed with a communal dinner.
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Dot McFadden and Greyson Thornburg took a turn a for tabling, right. A clothesline project, above, was created by survivors and people who have lost someone to sexual assault.
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Victim Services Interagency Council of NC
and NC Victim Assistance Network
sponsor National Crime Victims' Rights Week
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InterAct's Cindy Faison helped organize a ceremony in honor of National Crime Victims' Rights Week at the State Archives Building. Featured speakers included US Attorneys and others from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of NC. A highlight was a flower ceremony in rememberance of victims. Above, Cindy with the Wake County DV Unit.
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InterAct staff receives verbal de-escalation training
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In response to the increasing number of walk-in crisis calls, InterAct staff participated in a de-escalation training led by Associate Director of Crisis Intervention Kyrsten Mougey. Kyrsten presented a number of strategies for lowering the temperature when clients are upset, scared, and angry. Then staff role-payed a variety of different scenarios. Everyone left feelig better equipped to handle the variety of cases that are walking through the door.
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- Fidelity Foundation
- Truist
- United Way of the Greater Triangle
- WakeMed
- Alston & Bird
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- Julia and Frank Daniels, Jr. Endowment Fund of TCF
- Millbrook United Methodist Women
- Town of Wendell
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