Looking for a community service project that really makes a difference? Consider hosting a gift card collection drive within your family, among your friends, or at your office. Women Aware is collecting gift cards to provide survivors of domestic violence with the resources to buy what they need and want for themselves and their children.

The most helpful cards are: VISA • MASTERCARD • UBER • TARGET • WALMART • CVS • WALGREEN’S • SHOPRITE • STOP&SHOP • AMAZON • GAS CARDS

You can mail gift cards to Women Aware, 250 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.

You can drop off gift cards to Women Aware at the same address, Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm. Please call 732.249.4900 x0428 before stopping by.

The deadline for donations is Friday, November 11. Thank you!

The South Brunswick Commission on Women presents its Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk.

Sunday, October 16, 2022, 2:00-4:00pm, Greenbrook Elementary School, 23 Roberts Street, Kendall Park

To register, visit bit.ly/SBCWDVAWalk2022

All are welcome!

Women Aware invites the Middlesex County community to recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month by participating in the Moving Beyond Abuse 5K on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at Johnson Park-Grove 4, Piscataway. This is a USATF-Certified 5K flat course.

All event proceeds will support free and confidential services for survivors of domestic violence and their children in Middlesex County.

Details:

• Day-of registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Race time is 10:00 a.m.
• Save $10 and register in advance for $35. In-person race day registration is $45.
• Children age 11 and under are free.
• The event will take place rain or shine.
• First 100 registrants will receive a Swag Bag with giveaways.
• All registrants will receive a Moving Beyond Abuse 5K t-shirt.
• Live music from Goldenseal the band
• Tasty treats from Fritz’s-New Brunswick
• Children’s activities

For more information and to register to run or walk, visit https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/Piscataway/MovingBeyondAbuse

Run, walk, or simply turn out and be part of the village it takes to moves survivors of domestic violence beyond abuse in Middlesex County.

Thank you, Sponsors

Enbridge • Kaplan Companies • Independence Wealth Partners • Bob’s Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation • Olympus Construction • Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas • Monmouth Mobile Homes Park • Stark & Stark • Fresh Ponds Farm • L’Oreal USA-Franklin • Universal Windows Direct • ESW Beauty • Wawa • Charlotte and Joe Camarota • Investors Bank • The Bank of Princeton • PKF O’Connor Davies • Edward Leske Company • Schechner Lifson Corporation • Martin Insurance Group • Red Bank Pension • Diane Palmer • Olmec • Matthew Flannery • Riot & Rebel

Thank you to East Brunswick, NJ Mayor Brad Cohen for visiting the Middlesex County Family Justice Center. Pictured: Ellen Schwartz, Director of Legal Resources; Mayor Cohen; Mildred Torres, Director of the Family Justice Center; Susan Dyckman, Development Director, Women Aware.

Help. Hope. Healing. The Family Justice Center is open for survivors of domestic violence and their families Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 100 Bayard Street, 4th Floor, New Brunswick. No appointment is necessary. Walk-ins are welcome.

Big thanks to the Middlesex County Fair Association for awarding Women Aware a $5,000 sponsorship at the Fair’s Opening Ceremonies on August 1. We are so grateful for the Association’s generosity to survivors of domestic violence and their children. Pictured: Susan Dyckman, Development Director, Women Aware; Alan Habiak, President/General Manager, Middlesex County Fair Association; Joyce Chagnon, member, Women Aware Board of Directors and member, New Jersey Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee.

Through the COVID-19 public health crisis, Women Aware succeeded in keeping our 24/7 hotline and emergency shelter open.

As always, our services evolved to meet survivors wherever they are in their journey beyond abuse. Pre-pandemic, when the need for emergency shelter for victims in Middlesex County surpassed our safe house capacity, we would collaborate with out-of-county domestic violence agencies to secure shelter for survivors. Today, staffing shortages and pandemic-related capacity restrictions prohibit many out-of-county shelters from providing refuge for Middlesex County’s homeless survivors and their children. Women Aware removed this barrier to supplemental shelter by launching our own hotel placement program, expanding the capacity of our safe house to 125% in 2021. We provided life-saving shelter to 250 women and children, more than ever before in a single year.

We continue to shelter victims in our safe house and in hotel placements as the need for Women Aware’s services in 2022 is outpacing that of 2021. You can help. Clients in hotel placement need financial support for the essentials of daily living, including transportation and food. Gift card donations provide that support. The most useful gift cards are: VISA, MasterCard, Uber, Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreen’s, ShopRite, Amazon and gas cards.

If you would like to donate, you can drop off gifts cards at 250 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm. You can also put gift cards in the mail to Women Aware, 250 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick ,NJ 08901. If you have questions, please call the Development Office at 732-249-4900 x 0428. Thank you.