During the holiday season, WDIO and HOM Furniture join in support of the Trees of Hope campaign. WDIO News features stories on four organizations to help spread awareness to their cause. We will have a phone bank during our evening newscasts on Tuesday to help raise funds for the charity of the week. Donations can be made all week long.
The four charities that WDIO and HOM will showcase are Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance from November 22-28; Human Development Center from November 29 – December 5; Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge, December 6-12;
and Safe Haven on December 13-19.
Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center in Duluth is our featured Trees of Hope organization. Safe Haven provides services to women, children, and all survivors whose lives have been affected by physical, emotional, sexual, and economic abuse. Some survivors who use their services are in physical danger, others are living in emotionally abusive situations.
- Donate to Safe Haven Shelter & Resource Center
Trees of Hope and Safe Haven: Protecting child survivors of domestic abuse
Along with adult survivors of domestic abuse, Safe Haven protects the children who are also being impacted.
Trees of Hope and Safe Haven: How your donation can save a life
Safe Haven is a nonprofit organization that helps protect people escaping domestic abuse, and has been operating for nearly 50 years.
Trees of Hope and Safe Haven: Shawna’s survivor story
Twice, Shawna Larson has needed Safe Haven’s services and said she wouldn’t be where she is today without them.
Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge is our charity of the week. Their mission is to assist teens and adults in gaining freedom from chemical addictions and other life-controlling problems by addressing their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
- Donate to MN Adult & Teen Challenge
Trees of Hope and MN Adult & Teen Challenge: Finding freedom through past trauma
Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge (MNTAC) is a program that aims to help those in the Northland struggling with addiction. This is part of their mission.
Trees of Hope and MN Adult & Teen Challenge: Tommy’s Story
Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge (MNTAC) is a program that aims to help those in the Northland struggling with addiction. This is MNATC client Tommy Salazar’s story.
Trees of Hope and MN Adult & Teen Challenge: Derrik’s Story
The MN Adult and Teen Challenge program helps people struggling with addiction here in the Northland. Derrik Ketcham shares his story of finding hope through struggle.
Established in 1938, the Human Development Center is the largest mental health and recovery services provider in the Northland. The non-profit supports people experiencing mental health challenges. HDC provides comprehensive integrated mental health and addiction services to people of all ages across Carlton, Lake, and St. Louis counties in Minnesota and Douglas County, Wisconsin.
Trees of Hope and HDC: Lending a hand to Homeless Youth
Over at the Human Development Center in Superior, staff are lending a hand to homeless Youth and teen runaways with their drop-in-center.
Trees of Hope and HDC: Mobile Mental Health Response
The Human Development Center (HDC) offers multiple services at it’s locations across the Northland, providing help for anyone who walks in the door. However, when it’s after hours, or an individual who needs help can’t get to one of HDC’s locations, they also offer a mental health crisis line that’s staffed 24/7. “The individual on call…
Trees of Hope and HDC: Offering help to a diverse community
HDC provides a number of services across several counties. These include things like addiction recovery, crisis response, and mental health services.
Trees of Hope and HDC: Project Reach Out helping teen runaways
The Human Development Center offers a unique program called Project Reach Out. It a support network to help runaway teens reconnect with their families.
The Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance offers support to women and families impacted by ovarian cancer. MOCA funds research, educates the medical community and raises awareness about the disease. Symptoms of ovarian cancer are often very subtle and easily mistaken for more common problems. For the majority of women, symptoms don’t show up until the cancer has advanced.
Trees of Hope and MOCA: Survivors stick together
The Fun Posse is a group of ovarian cancer survivors who meet and support one another on their journeys.
Trees of Hope and MOCA: Lorrie’s story
Lorrie Fox has survived ovarian cancer for 20 years, and shares her story to inspire other women to keep fighting on.
Trees of Hope and MOCA: Koren’s story
A sophomore at Duluth Denfeld shares how her life is going now that she’s beaten a rare form of ovarian cancer.
Trees of Hope and MOCA: Debbie’s story
A Wrenshall woman continues to help women advocate for their health, after she survived a rare kind of ovarian cancer.