Paducah, KY, November 12, 2022– Merryman House Domestic Crisis Center (MHDCC) has named Domestic Violence Awareness Month Award Winners in three categories inspired by the agency’s core values: Advocacy, Empowerment, and Transformation.
As a new addition to their awareness month activities in October, MHDCC staff, board members and clients nominated and voted for community individuals, organizations or businesses they felt most characterized Advocacy, Empowerment and Transformation within the past year.
Winners were presented with their awards in early November in front of their peers and supervisors.
The winners are as follows:
Advocacy Award, given for directly benefiting survivors of domestic violence for being a voice for the underserved, showing up, and fighting for others:
Lindsey Eberhardt, Director of Sales & Marketing at Courtyard Marriott Paducah
Empowerment Award, given for directly benefiting survivors of domestic violence by supporting, inspiring and equipping survivors as they break through barriers on their journeys toward healing and restoration:
Lilia Rivera, Executive Director at Cornerstone of Hope, Inc.
Transformation Award, given for directly benefiting survivors of domestic violence by providing opportunities that create a lasting impact and being a change-maker:
Anne Bidwell, Community Impact Manager at United Way of Paducah-McCracken County
“The barriers domestic violence and trauma can create for survivors are often complex and rarely easy to solve in one try or one meeting,” MHDCC Executive Director, Dr. Mary Foley said. “Lindsey, Lilia and Anne have all worked with us and our clients well past where many people would stop. They have each gotten us to solutions beneficial for our clients in a myriad of situations. We are thankful for a community of partners like these three winners – many of whom were also nominated – who go the distance with us to advocate, empower and transform survivors of intimate partner violence.”
About
Merryman House, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, is committed to saving, building and changing the lives of those affected by domestic violence: men, women and children. It has been serving the eight-county Purchase Region as the state-designated program and emergency shelter since 1978. Merryman House offers residential and non-residential programming. Merryman House serves hundreds of victims annually, and all services are free and confidential.
If you would like more information about the Merryman House, please contact Kayla Myers, Director of Community Engagement of Merryman House at 270-443-6001; email at kaylam@merrymanhouse.org; or visit the website at www.merrymanhouse.org.
