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.
Donate
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
SUPPORT
$10/month
Support caregivers, strengthen families & reduce the risk for child abuse.
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
Is 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 corporate and foundation donors
- Swift & Staley
- Mercy Health
- Wagner Wine & Spirits
- CSI
- Dairyman’s Supply Co.
- Ray Black & Son
- Purple Toad Winery
- Human Health Horizons
- Paducah Bank
- Bacon, Farmer, Workman Engineering & Testing / Marcum Engineering
- EquipmentShare in Calvert City
- Perkins Motor Plex
- Independence Bank
- Baptist Health
- Harrah’s Metropolis Casino & Hotel
- Strawberry Hills Pharmacy
- Denton Law Firm
- Peel & Holland
- Flower + Furbish
If you are interested in learning more about how you can be a part of our mission, please contact:
Lori Wells Brown
Chief Executive Officer
270-534-4422 ext. 19
Email Lori
Our 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.
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.
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Lotus
1605 North Friendship Road
Paducah, KY 42001
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
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
6th to 8th Grade Programs
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.
High School Programs
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.
College Programming
Adult/Community Programs
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 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.
Professional Education Trainings
The following is a list of continuing education opportunities for Lotus volunteers. Please email Kaitlyn Reagan, Service Coordinator, 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
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
Kentucky Youth Advocates
National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
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