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Our Community Impact
As a symbol of enlightenment and reawakening, the lotus flower reflects our vision to create communities free from oppression and violence for all people. Through shared values of resilience, empowerment, diversity, equity, and inclusion we are deepening understanding, inspiring action, and amplifying our collective impact to create lasting change.
Each of us has the opportunity to make the everyday choices reflected in our attitudes, words, and behaviors which promote safety and communicate intolerance for violence.
TOGETHER we create a world where every person is safe and respected and can reach their full potential.
TOGETHER we ALL have the opportunity to hope, heal, grow.
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Lotus gives survivors of sexual violence and their families a real chance for both hope and healing. I’m proud to be a part of this life-restoring cause.
Joni Flowers Goodman,
Former Board Member, Donor
Your gift to Lotus creates opportunities for hope, healing, and growth.
With your support, we can build resilience in children, youth, families, and survivors to heal and reclaim their lives. We can strengthen families and prevent child abuse. We can educate and empower our community to end interpersonal violence. Whether you wish to make a one-time gift, give monthly, in-kind, or through an event sponsorship, Lotus offers many meaningful ways to make an impact.
Give Monthly
One-Time Donation
We know that recurring gifts aren’t for everyone. You can make an impact through a one-time meaningful gift.
Every contribution counts!
Other Ways to Make an Impact
Corporate & Foundation Supporters
19Is your corporation or business looking to make a difference in your community? From volunteering, holding an in-kind donation drive to support our programs, to making a financial contribution, Lotus offers many opportunities to get involved!
Lotus provides healing and restorative services free of charge for every survivor. Learn more about who we are and who we help. YOU can support survivors, strengthen families, and empower communities! Here are a few opportunities to inspire change:
- Sponsor prevention education programming for a local school.
- Sponsor training for law enforcement officers or nurses.
- Sponsor forensic medical examinations for child victims.
- Sponsor child abuse prevention education programming for adults.
We appreciate our foundation donors!
- Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust
- Rotary Foundation
- Kentucky Bar Foundation
- Kentucky Colonels
- Community Foundation of West Kentucky
- Charity League of Paducah Ethel Dubois Smith Fund
If you are interested in learning more about how you can be a part of our mission, please contact:
Lori Wells Brown
Executive Director
270-534-4422 ext. 19
Email Lori
In-Kind Donations
Your in-kind donations allow us to invest more funding into our programs and services for survivors. We’re continually in need of art therapy supplies, office supplies and more. View a list of our current in-kind donation needs.
If you’ve collected any of these items, please arrange a drop off or pick up by contacting Lotus at 270-534-4422 ext. 10.
Give While You Shop
Kroger Plus
Have a Kroger Plus Card? Go to Kroger Community Rewards and select Lotus, organization # HE422, to register your Kroger Plus card and support Lotus every time you shop at Kroger. It will even show you how much your purchases have supported Lotus each quarter.
myWalgreens®
When you’re signed up for myWalgreens, you can make an impact by donating the value of your Walgreens Cash rewards to Lotus. Sign in to your myWalgreens account to make a donation.
Donor Bill of Rights
- To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
- To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
- To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.
- To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
- To receive appropriate acknowledgment and recognition.
- To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
- To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
- To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
- To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
- To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.
Developed by:
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP)
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits
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Lotus
1605 North Friendship Road
Paducah, KY 42001
Your donation creates opportunities for hope, healing, and growth for survivors of all ages and supports our vision to build a resilient community free from oppression and violence for all people.
Volunteer
Make an Impact
Lotus supports survivors, strengthens families, and empowers communities to end child abuse and sexual violence.
Our volunteers enrich our mission with valuable expertise, perspectives, and passion. We welcome you to join us in creating a community of support for survivors and freedom from violence. To start your volunteer journey with Lotus, take a look at our opportunities and submit a volunteer application below.
Medical Advocacy & Crisis Response
Connect survivors to safety, resources, and justice.
Restorative
Support hope, healing, and growth for survivors.
Community Outreach & Support
Amplify Lotus’s impact in the community.
Volunteer with Lotus
Learn
Lotus engages and cultivates relationships and partnerships to invoke shared values, deepen understanding, and amplify our collective impact. Through strengthened education, research, and advocacy we aim to cultivate safe, equitable, just communities where all persons thrive.
Hear From an Expert
Contact Lotus to invite a Lotus expert to speak at your event or meeting.
Find an Event
We have area educational events and group discussions coming up. Find one close to you.
Educational Resources
We have resources available to help you learn more about the issues of sexual assault and child abuse/neglect in our community. Know the signs, what to do and how to help.
Prevention Education
Programs
Child abuse and sexual violence are serious problems that can have lasting, harmful effects on victims and their family, friends, and communities. But, prevention is possible.
Using an evidence-based approach to violence prevention, Lotus is working to inform, educate, and engage people to take action and create healthier communities that are committed to ending child abuse and sexual violence.
34%
Middle School Students Bullied on School Property
13.5%
High School Students Experienced Sexual Dating Violence
17.7%
High School Students Electronically Bullied (Cyberbullied)
Pre-K to 5th Grade
MBF Child Safety Matters™
We educate and empower students and adults to prevent, recognize and respond to unsafe situations. This teaching includes discussions on bullying, cyberbullying, child abuse and digital abuse.
Benefits:
- Based on research and created/reviewed by experts.
- Educates children, school staff and parents.
- Improves academic performance.
- Creates a safer school environment.
Lesson Topics:
(two lessons annually per grade level)
- Lesson 1: General Safety and All Types of Child Abuse
- Lesson 2: Bullying, Cyberbullying, Digital Safety, and Digital Citizenship
Kindness, Compassion, and Acceptance Program
We focus the lesson on showing respect for others through kindness, compassion and acceptance by using books, videos and activities.
6th to 8th Grade Programs
It's My Space
It’s My Space is a Kentucky-specific adaptation of an evidence-based middle school primary prevention program that teaches students about personal boundaries.
Additionally, students complete a school hotspot mapping activity where they identify the spaces in the school where they feel safe, unsafe, or in-between.
Prevention educators use this information to work with school administrators to make changes to the school environment to keep students safe.
Research on the program It’s My Space was adapted from demonstrates that the program reduces sexual harassment by 26%, physical and sexual dating violence by 50%, and peer sexual violence by 32%.
Learn more about It’s My Space.
Bullying & Bystander Empowerment
This program promotes discussion and problem solving using a presentation and interactive activities over various aspects of bullying.
Kindness, Compassion, and Acceptance
We focus on the impact of a positive school environment on students through kindness, compassion, and acceptance by using a presentation and small group activities.
Technology and Internet Safety
We teach students the importance of internet and cell phone safety and how to protect themselves in their daily use. We teach these concepts through videos, books, discussions and activities.
Healthy Relationships
Through activities and discussion students gain skills to identify the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, effective communication and healthy boundaries in relationships, and resources for help and support.
High School Programs
Green Dot High School
Green Dot is an evidence-based primary prevention program designed to teach participants safe ways to intervene in situations of bullying, dating violence, and sexual harassment and assault.
Using a bystander intervention approach, Green Dot High School empowers students to set new, positive social norms and to create a community where interpersonal violence is not tolerated.
We know Green Dot works because of the extensive evaluation of the program—most of which has happened in Kentucky high schools and colleges. In fact, Green Dot High School has been shown to reduce perpetration of sexual assault by 21% and reduce perpetration of dating violence by 30%.
Learn more about Green Dot High School.
Kindness, Compassion, and Acceptance
We focus on the impact of a positive school environment on students through kindness, compassion, and acceptance by using a presentation and small group activities.
Technology and Internet Safety
We teach students the importance of internet and cell phone safety and how to protect themselves in their daily use. We teach these concepts through videos, books, discussions and activities.
Healthy Relationships
Through activities and discussion, teens gain skills to identify the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, effective communication and healthy boundaries in relationships, and resources for help and support.
Organizations like Lotus and programs like Green Dot are paving a way for social change.
Cadence Brown,
Marshall County High School Student & Green Dot Ambassador
College Programming
Consent 101
We cover the four components of sexual consent (clear, coherent, willing, ongoing) and what that looks like in everyday scenarios.
Healthy Relationships
Through activities and discussion, participants gain skills to identify the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, effective communication and healthy boundaries in relationships, and resources for help and support.
Lotus Overview
Learn more about Lotus’s mission, key initiatives, and how to access valuable resources and services. Participants are empowered to deepen their understanding and create opportunities for positive change in our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
Adult/Community Programs
Darkness to Light Stewards of Children
Darkness to Light is an evidence-based prevention education program for child sexual abuse. This training educates and empowers adults on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
Green Dot Community
Green Dot is an evidence-based primary prevention program designed to teach participants safe ways to intervene in situations of dating/domestic violence, sexual harassment and assault, and child abuse. Using a bystander intervention approach, Green Dot empowers community members to set new, positive social norms and to create a community where interpersonal violence is not tolerated.
What’s Your Green Dot?
Green Dots are simple actions you can take in your everyday life. Some examples are:
- Directly intervening when you see a red dot situation by telling the person/people causing harm to stop or by checking in on the person experiencing the harm.
- Getting someone else involved in addressing a red dot situation, like a friend, store manager, or coworker.
- Distracting from a red dot situation by asking someone for directions or asking if they dropped a dollar.
- Having a conversation with your family and friends about why you think Green Dot is important. Posting about Green Dot on your social media.
- Including a Green Dot quote in your email signature.
Learn more about Green Dot Community.
Lotus Overview
Learn more about Lotus’s mission, key initiatives, and how to access valuable resources and services. Participants are empowered to deepen their understanding and create opportunities for positive change in our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
Parent Cafes
Lotus is collaborating with other community partners to host Parent Cafes which are discussion based groups led by approved facilitators. During cafes, Parents and caregivers engage in supportive discussions focusing on strengthening the 6 protective factors and are encouraged to hold positive leadership roles, promoting pro-social interactions which strengthen individual families and the entire community.
Professional Education
Trainings
On-Going Professional Development for Volunteers
The following is a list of continuing education opportunities for Lotus volunteers. Please email Amberly Haverstock, Director of Specialized Services, indicating which training you are participating to receive credits.
- Understanding Human Trafficking
(5 hrs) | Click Here to View - Polyvictimization in Later Life
(5 hrs) | Click Here to View - Victim Assistance Trainings
(5 hrs) | Click Here to View - Free Courses from Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
(There are a variety of courses at this resource, please pick and choose the courses you’d like to take.)
Click Here to View
Scheduled Professional Trainings
There are currently no upcoming trainings.
Please check back later.
Partners
in Prevention
Lotus Partners in Prevention are businesses, organizations, and individuals that commit to creating a community where all children, families, and survivors thrive. Distinguished by their dedication to raising awareness, financial support, volunteerism, or ambassadorship, Partners in Prevention embody, and act on, our shared responsibility to prevent child abuse and sexual violence.
Why become a partner?
Child abuse and sexual violence affect every one of us. As neighbors, colleagues, friends, and employers, we each have a unique power to foster hope, healing, and growth for survivors in our community.
Partners in Prevention enjoy opportunities for special volunteer opportunities, media partnerships, recognition on Lotus website, blog and social media spotlights, signage and print recognition, fulfillment in actively enriching our community, and so much more!
Become a
Partner in Prevention
Activism
Lotus and our statewide coalitions are committed to advocating for state and federal legislation that supports survivors, strengthens families, and empowers communities to end child abuse and sexual violence. You can take action as an advocate by learning about policy issues and priorities at the state and national levels and by contacting your legislators using the resources below.
Who's My Legislator?
Find your legislators using this tool to view contact information, sponsored legislation, and more.
Advocate for Survivors
View Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs’ legislative advocacy page to learn more efforts to advance policies that support survivors and end sexual violence.
Advocate for Children & Families
Learn more about Children’s Advocacy Centers of Kentucky and their work to advance policies that strengthen families and end child abuse and neglect.
Additional Legislative Advocacy Resources
Need to Schedule an Appointment or Have Questions?
As Kentucky’s regional children’s advocacy and sexual violence resource center for the Purchase Area, Lotus serves survivors of child abuse and sexual assault as well as their supportive family members. We are committed to serving all survivors and do not discriminate against anyone on any basis. ALL ARE WELCOME!
Services provided in part or fully by federal, state, and local funds.
Campus & Mailing Address
1605 North Friendship Road
Paducah, KY 42001
24 Hour Helpline
1-800-928-7273
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This project was supported by Grant Number VOCA-2020-Purchase A-00078 awarded through the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet by the U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet or the U.S. Department of Justice.
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