New volunteers/staff announced

New Freedom House volunteers include (seated, from left) Joy Johnson and Michelle Bickerman; (middle row) Kathy VanBeuning and Julie Rediger; and (back row) Nancy Spitz, Cathy Wizgird, Brenda Sisson, Freedom House Program Services Director Sherry Dockins and John Greene. Photo contributed

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PRINCETON — Eight volunteers recently graduated from a 63.5-hour training course for Freedom House, a domestic violence and sexual assault services’ center.

The training was mandated by the state and sanctioned by the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

Freedom House is located at 440 Elm Place, Princeton, and primarily serves clients in Bureau, Henry, Marshall, Putnam and Stark counties. Freedom House also operates an Outreach Office at Suite 6, 716 Elliott St., Kewanee, (across from Kewanee Hospital) and in the Henry County State’s Attorney’s Office of the Henry County Courthouse, Cambridge.

The new volunteers/staff include Michelle Bickerman of Mark; John Greene and Joy Johnson, both of Princeton; Brenda Sisson of Mineral; Nancy Spitz of LaMoille; Julie Rediger of Sheffield; Kathy Van Beuning of Granville; and Cathy Wizgird of Peru.

The new direct service volunteers are now trained to handle crisis line calls to the shelter and will be on-call to assist domestic violence or sexual assault survivors with medical or legal advocacy or other support services.

For more information on Freedom House’s services or to become a direct or non-direct service volunteer, call Stephanie Cartwright at (815) 872-0087, ext. 224, or visit www.freedomhouseillinois.com.