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The Halifax River Yacht Club in Daytona Beach was the setting for the 5th Domestic Violence Awareness Luncheon and Meeting for the Domestic Abuse Council, Inc. of Volusia County. The event takes place during October because it is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and a time to honor the survivors and victims. During the event, members of the Board of Directors were sworn in by Judge Dawn Fields. Three survivors shared their inspirational stories to a crowd of more than 190 community supporters and declared that they were rock stars. Each individual at the event was asked to become a rock star by writing a positive word or affirmation on a rock, displayed on the table in glass star shaped bowls. After the luncheon, the rocks were deposited into the empow-erment bank at the shelter, where residents can make withdrawals and deposits as needed to lift their spir-its.
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Purple Parade Sept. 27, 2014 Hundreds of people turned out for the 3rd annual Purple Parade in Daytona Beach on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Once again, the Domestic Abuse Coun-cil, Inc's. event to raise awareness to prevent bullying and domestic violence was well attend-ed.
The keynote speaker this year was na-tionally recognized Stacey Dougan, a lawyer and pioneer in the field of workplace violence and "Men Stopping Violence." She gave a rousing speech focusing on how domestic violence affects all segments of our population and how collectively we can make an impact on social change by hold-ing perpetrators accountable and not re-victimizing the victim. "We believe there is more awareness in both our local community and across the country. We are happy to see this shift, since we know the only way to end domestic violence is to prevent it," Cheryl Fuller, CEO of the Domestic Abuse council said.
Board of Director members Sherrilee Staudt and Joeretha Hayes were honored for their years of service. 

Students from elementary schools to middle schools to high schools to colleges and universities attended in addition to people from cities all over the county. To share in the festivities, there were magicians, face painting, self-defense demonstrations and Daytona Destiny Drum line once again lead the processional.

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Two dozen community leaders recently joined staff at the Domestic Abuse Council, Inc. to celebrate the "Raise the Roof" cam-paign. Through a CDBG grant from Vohtsia County, a private foundation donation, gifts from private individuals and in-kind dona-tions from experts in engineering and roofing consultants, the total commercial project cost about $150,000. "Because of the generosity of the professionals, including Dickens & Associates Engineering and ECS Florida who aided us in launching this pro-ject, we saved about $50,000. If they hadn't do-nated their services, we would have had to spend our reserves to complete the roof replacement," Cheryl Fuller CEO for the Domestic Abuse Coun-cil said. In the last two years, shelter bedrooms had to close during torrential rainfall and were untena-ble for those in crisis. Since the roof completion in August, no rooms have closed because of water penetration. In fact in August, the emergency shelter was full, serving 102 different individuals with over 1200 bed-nights.

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Gold Sponsors Dickens & Associates, Inc. Consulting Engineers Industrial Vibration Consultants, Inc.
Silver Sponsors
Bright House Networks City of Daytona Beach Police Department Consolidated Tomoka Land Company Integrated Crisis Management State Senator Dorothy Hukill Campaign Account
Bronze Sponsors Advanced Fire & Safety Daytona International Speedway Corp. City of Edgewater Police Department Florida Power & Light Gordon Russell and Ann Marwick GPC Consulting, Inc. Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church Rambo Charitable Fund ReMax Property Centre Saint James Episcopal Church Scarlet O'Bears Red Hat Chapter Nancy Tennstedt Training Initiatives, Inc. Volusia County Sheriffs Office Volusia County Women's Network Wright Printery

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Guest speaker Stacey Dougan, center, with her brother Keith Dougan BUD and Cheryl Fuller, CEO.
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Chairwoman Michele Simonsen
1st Vice Chairman Trever Henderson
2nd Vice Chairwoman Sally Gardiner
Secretary Kimberly Dillon
Treasurer Rev. John Long
Immediate Past Chair Sherrilee Stoudt
Paul Chipok Glenna Colley Keith Dougan Janet Kersey Dr. Diana Lee Lauren Blasik John Power Lt. William Walden Cheryl Fuller, CEO domesticabusecouncil.com 386-257-2297 admire 386-255-2102 hotline 1-800-500-1119 Statewide crisis line P.O. Box 142 Daytona Beach, FL

3RD ANNUAL PURPLE PARAD
Gold Sponsors
The Rodgers Family Fund
Silver Sponsors
Daytona Toyota Florida Health Care Plans Florida Hospital Halifax Health Raydon Corporation
Bronze Sponsors
Daytona International Speedway Corporation Linda Eisel Parks Dermatology Center Teledyne ODI The Links Incorporated, Daytona Beach Charter
SPECIAL THANKS TO 3 Magicians CopyTronics Daytona Destiny Drum line DJ Rob PepsiCo Thunder City Sirens Villari Martial Arts DAC Volunteers
2013-2014 Annual Statistics
• 230 adults lived in shelter. • 191 children lived in shelter.
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Tkursclay February 5, 2015 for the Domestic Abuse Council Inc.'s Daytona Derby Annual Luncheon
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• 70% of the families had no means of transportation.
• 48% of adult shelter residents witnessed domestic violence as a child.
• 80% of the families had an annual income of • 5,317 hours donated by volunteers to support
less than $10,000. • 13,873 bed nights in shelter (heads on a pillow). *
• 48% of adult shelter residents were abused as children.
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4,047 individuals touched by community out reach education.
• 517 professionals received training.