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.
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
Corporate & Foundation Supporters
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 community partners!
- Swift & Staley, Inc.
- Coad Toyota of Paducah
- Kentucky Association of Health Plans, Inc.
- Ray Black & Son
- Dairyman’s Supply
- Coca Cola Consolidated
- Paducah Bank & Trust
- Strickland’s Seafood
- Etcetera Coffeehouse
- Dry Ground Brewing Company
- Flower N Furbish
- The Eckstein Charitable Trust, Special Thanks to Teresa Eckstein for supporting our Nature + Play Projects at Paducah & Mayfield
- The Mayfield-Graves County Tornado Relief Fund, Inc.
- Community Foundation of West Kentucky
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Special Thanks to Dr. Robert Long
- The Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels
- Charity League of Paducah
- Knights of Columbus
- Rotary Club of Paducah
- Women’s Club of Paducah
- West Kentucky Alliance of Clubs
- West Kentucky Community & Technical College
- Murray State University Panhellenic Council
- St. Matthew’s by the Lake
- Bethlehem Baptist Women’s Class
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. 019
Email Lori
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 Time Sheet
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.
Professional Education Trainings
The following is a list of continuing education opportunities for Lotus volunteers.
- 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.
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
RAINN
