Advocates to End Domestic Violence Receives Award

Advocates to End Domestic Violence (AEDV), is pleased to receive the Imagine. Believe. Achieve. award from the Alliance for Victims’ Rights (AVR). Each year the AVR honors community members and criminal justice system professionals who are making a difference in the lives of victim crime. The Imagine. Believe. Achieve. award honors an outstanding non-profit. Past award winners nominated and selected AEDV based on their 30-year track record for bringing excellent service to victims of domestic violence.

AEDV maintains the only 24-hour crisis hotline for Carson City and Storey County. In addition to the hotline, they provide crisis intervention, support service and an emergency shelter for domestic violence and sexual assault victims as well as their children. They have 51 emergency and 14 long-term transitional housing beds, and is the largest domestic violence emergency shelter facility throughout the entire northern Nevada region.

AEDV was please to accept the award at the 2013 “Bringing Respect and Honor To Victims Award Ceremony and Candlelight Vigil on Wednesday, April 24.


Taste of Downtown

The Taste of Downtown is in a full planning stage process. Entertainment is being booked, restaurants are being signed, sponsors are committing, logo is being finalized, and permits will be happening soon. Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, June 15th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Taste of Downtown, a street party like no other in downtown Carson City with proceeds benefitting the domestic violence shelter program. If you would like to volunteer, give Traci a call at 883-7654.

Shelter Items Needed

The shelter always needs items. The items you and I need to get along each and every day in our own homes. Below is a list of items we always need and are so willing to accept as a donation.

  • Clorox wipes
  • liquid dish soap
  • kleenex
  • toilet tissue
  • high efficiency laundry detergent
  • paper towels
  • kitchen utencils
  • kitchen and bath cleansers
  • large size diapers
  • baby wipes
  • shampoo and conditioners (not travel size please)
  • liquid body soap
  • wash cloths
  • sponges
  • kitchen towels

Any of these items would be greatly appreciated.

Advocates to End Domestic Violence

AEDV is a private, not-for-profit organization. We were formed in 1979 by two formerly battered women who saw a need for a domestic violence program in Carson City, Nevada. We have grown from a small two-bedroom apartment, to a full service program that operates a 51-bed shelter and provides a wide variety of services designed to protect and support battered women and their children in the community.

Our mission is to provide a safe, supportive environment where domestic violence victims can re-examine their view of themselves and work towards a violence free future. We accept a woman as she is and encourage her positive growth toward independence and self- sufficiency.

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