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The Lake County Haven empowers homeless women and their children to achieve permanent, independent living.

The Haven is so grateful for the

unyielding support of the corporations

and businesses that have supported us

over the years. From financial support

to professional expertise to event

sponsorship, you truly do it all!

Now is OUR chance to give back to

YOU. Our Corporate Partnership

Program is designed to give you and

your staff meaningful ways to give back

right here in your own community.

As a Corporate Partner, there are many

ways to get up close and personal with

us here at the Haven, as well as

showcase all of the wonderful work

you do.

Executive Involvement

Volunteering

Marketing Opportunities

Special Events

For more information on becoming

a Corporate Partner:

Contact Kate at 847-680-1901 or

[email protected].

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Presenting Lake County Haven’s New

Corporate Partnership Program

Much thanks to our

current Corporate Partners.

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Yes! I want to reserve Raffle Tickets for the 2018 Gala!

Raffle Tickets are $20 each, 3 for $50, or 10 for $150

Total # of Tickets: ___________ Total $: __________

Payment: Please complete the payment information below. Your raffle ticket stubs will be mailed to you.

I have enclosed a check payable to Lake County Haven. (Mail to Lake County Haven, P.O. Box 127, Libertyville, IL 60048.)

I’d like to donate via credit card and I authorize Lake County Haven to charge my credit card.

Card #: ____________________________________________________ Expiration: ______________ CVV#: _____________

Name as it appears on card: ______________________________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: _____________________________

Email Address: ______________________________________________ Phone: ____________________________________

Signature: __________________________________________________ THANK YOU!

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Thank you to a ll of our fr iends

and neighbors who have helped the

homeless women and children in our

community find a place to call “home”

this past year. Because of your

generosity, each of them received

not only the basic necessities of life,

but also:

THANK YOU to Our Current ADOPT-A-NIGHT SPONSORS

Case Management and Life-

Skills Training to help them

learn the skills they need to live

independently.

Counseling and support to help

them heal from the trauma they

experienced while living on

the streets.

There are many more nights

available and countless women and

children who still need your help.

For just $250, you can give them the

tools and resources they need to

make life-saving changes for their

families. Please call Kate at

847-680-1901 to Adopt-a-Night at

the Lake County Haven.

We are so grateful to all those who have

participated in our Adopt-a-Night program.

Those listed here are people whose

Adopt-a-Night contribution was received

between October 25, 2017, and February

19, 2018, for this year. To see the full

calendar, please visit us at

www.LakeCountyHaven.org.

11/14/2017 Heritage Turquoise Table Friends

11/16/2017 H-O-H Water Technology, Inc.

11/17/2017 Barbara Higgins

11/18/2017 Christy Bartolain

11/19/2017 In Honor of David & Denise Reilly

11/20/2017 Pizzeria Deville

12/2/2017 Our friends in the St. Andrews

neighborhood

12/9/2017 Jeri & Joe Prybell

12/12/2017 Multiple Choice Mothers of

Multiples Club

12/13/2017 Multiple Choice Mothers of

Multiples Club

12/14/2017 The ETAs

12/16/2017 In Memory of Marilyn &

Paul Sweeney

12/17/2017 In Memory of Marilyn &

Paul Sweeney


12/21/2017 Anonymous

12/24/2017 In Memory of Grace M. Koffell

12/24/2017 The Emmett White Family

12/25/2017 Ian Blackburn & Lisa Giametta

12/26/2017 The Di Martino Perea Family

12/27/2017 In Honor of Lorraine Pritchard

12/28/2017 Briant Kelly

12/29/2017 In Memory of Grandma Jane Barry

12/31/2017 Peace on Earth

12/31/2017 Rotary Club of Long Grove,

Kildeer & Hawthorn Woods

1/1/2018 Lake County Haven Board

of Directors

1/2/2018 In Honor of Mr. & Mrs. Ross-Scheer

1/3/2018 The Brotz Family

1/4/2018 In Celebration of the Life of

Patsy Jo Beall

1/5/2018 The Brotz Family

1/6/2018 In Honor of Carol & Bob Patulo

1/7/2018 The Joseph Family

1/8/2018 LHS Advocats


1/19/2018 Ladies of Tantara

1/20/2018 Joel Klahn

1/21/2018 Michelle Long & John Gaertner

1/25/2018 In Memory of Alice Maguire

2/1/2018 Kenna Heat Cool Solutions

2/5/2018 Nancy Binder


2/6/2018 Virginia

2/9/2018 In Honor of Nancy Hall

2/12/2018 Angie

2/13/2018 You are Loved

2/14/2018 First Church of Christ Scientist

in Libertyville


2/16/2018 Carilyn Anderson

3/1/2018 Susan Hynes

3/1/2018 Iota Lambda Iota Alumnae Chapter

of Alpha Chi Omega in honor of

Founders Day

3/2/2018 Ted & Mary Thorp


3/4/2018 Abboreno / Olson Family



3/15/2018 In Memory of Diane Van Dycke

Kephart

3/20/2018 Nancy Binder



4/8/2018 Daughters of Penelope Dione

#317 Chapter

4/9/2018 In Memory of My Sisters



4/27/2018 In Honor of Ellie's Birthday

4/29/2018 Phoebe O'Shea

4/30/2018 The Kempf Family


5/19/2018 Lake County Haven Staff


6/22/2018 In Memory of Melbadyne Poglayen

6/22/2018 In Memory of Joann Law



7/6/2018 Nate & Jill Alden






8/19/2018 In Memory of Norman &

Jean Schwartz

8/19/2018 In Memory of Jean Schwartz

8/29/2018 In Honor of Milo

8/31/2018 In Memory of Carol Rak

9/4/2018 In Memory of Terry Acker


9/18/2018 Libertyville Wildcat Volleyball

9/29/2018 In Memory of Ann Cyrus

10/4/2018 In Memory of Gary & Lorraine Block




11/2/2018 In Memory of Thomasine &

Rocco Sabino

11/9/2018 The Shannon Grandchildren


11/13/2018 Caitlin O'Shea

12/10/2018 Merry Christmas

12/13/2018 The Scopacasa Family


12/18/2018 In Memory of Alice Maguire

12/31/2018 In Memory of Bill Shannon

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Haven Happenings Making our shelter into a home would be impossible if not for the efforts of our many volunteers and in-kind donors. This issue encompasses donations received between 11/1/17 and 1/31/18. Thank you to all our generous donors!

Thank you to these wonderful donors who

helped provide a holiday meal for our client

holiday party!

Lynn Badamo

Molly Coe

Nancy Devroy

Emily Dumas

Sandra Henley

Thank you to the many donors who provided

holiday gifts for our residents. Because of

you, the women and children in our shelter

had a joyous holiday season!

Abbvie Global Commercial Development

Abbvie Global Medical Affairs Planning

& Engagement

Advocate Condell Labor & Delivery

Alpha Phi – Lake County Chapter

Amanda Antons & Family

Alexandra Beiriger

Nancy Cassell & Friends

Caring Women’s Connection

Carmel Catholic Cheerleading

Country Financial

Dance Academy of Libertyville

Sarah Danilkowicz & Family

First Presbyterian Church Libertyville

Grace Lutheran Church

Sarah Hetzel & Cheri Marshall

Highland Middle School

Lake County Cares

Liberty Auto City

Libertyville Noon Rotary

Denise Lollino

Amy Mason

Jeri Prybell

Denise & David Reilly

Anne Ross-Stone

Jennifer Schmidt

Rob & Liz Schuler

Starbuck’s Downtown Libertyville

Stericycle

St. Joseph’s Church

Santo Nino Prayer Group

Vernon Hills High School Softball

United Methodist Church of Libertyville

UPC Grayslake & Judi Becker

The Wiegel Family

Wilberg of UL

Dale & Tina Wonders

The Junior League of Evanston partnered

with Lake County Haven for their Purses for a

Purpose program. They generously donated

60 purses filled with personal items for our

residents to enjoy. Thank you!

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Thank you to staff at Lundbeck for making

holiday care packages for our residents!

We are grateful for all of our supporters who

donate meals and groceries to our shelter on

a regular basis. Thank you for always making

sure our residents have a nutritious meal,

plenty of groceries and treats!

Tonya Balla

Jill Baranowski

Jackie Barr

Robin Bertucci

Nancy Black

Sena Bradley

Holly Broeker

Elizabeth Brown

Raeanne Carlson

Lilly Carrillo

Dina Collins

Copeland Manor Staff

Idele & Paul Crimmins

Savannah Curry

Nancy Devroy

Girl Scout Troop 40332

Eileen Glynn-Tucker

Naomi Gomez

Jenny Graziano

Stephanie Gresh

Yesenia Hague

Jill Hancock

Howard & Debbie Handler

Rosa Harris

The Henning Family

Megan Hoerl

Hope Food Pantry

Mary Jo Howard

Lori Hubbart

Gwen Janzen

Jessica Johnson

Kristin Karahalios

Anne Kaske

Ann Kidd

Maggie Kutsunis

Lake Bluff Women’s

Club

We want to thank the staff and families at

Fremont School District for hosting ongoing

donation drives for items that our shelter

needs. A very special shout out to Fremont

Immediate School 3rd grade class who

conducted their own drive around holiday time,

as well. Thank you!

A big thank you to Claire Cherry for donating

school supplies to one of the children in

our shelter!

Thank you to Elliott West Services for

coming to our aid by repairing the shelter’s

kitchen sink.

Thank you to Peter Block and our friends at the

Kaballah Center for hosting a winter coat drive

to benefit the women and children at Lake

County Haven!

Our residents have enjoyed the many

cosmetics donated by make-up artists Mary

Hanson and Josie Volpendesta. Thank you!

Randi Herkey

Gwen Janzen

Denise Lollino

Kristin Pasdon

Mary Voratut

Lakeside Congregation

Jackie Lanscioni

Sarah Larimer

Lindsey Lee

Libertyville High

School Advocats

Lincolnshire

Community Christian

Church’s Youth

Group

Denise Lollino

Yvonne Lovelady

Jessica Maag

Dhanishwari Manna

Rylie Matchett

Michele Mueller

Jason Neuhaus

Peyton Newman

Beth Nolan

Barbara Peter

Barbara Post

Lori Reich

The Rosales/

Rivera Family

Patty Rudolph

Rose Schamberger

Brooke Slavik

Jennifer Springer

Hannah Stone

Vanessa Stalter

Gayle Tavares

The Wiegel Family

Samantha Worthington

Jen Zbylut

The Zubert Family

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Haven Happenings, continued

Thank you to the following donors who provide

bagged lunches for the shelter residents. The

women and children in our program are so

grateful to have a healthy bagged lunch to take

with them for the day!

Janet Andrews

The Aronoff Family

Karen Beres Haring

Pilar Bergman

Julie Brown

Nathania Busse

Lizz Buisson

Molly Coe

Elena Chang

Melissa Fainman

Aisha Ghori Ozaki

Janine Glass

Betsy Graupe

Ellie Gross

Pauline Gubbins

Jill Hancock

Kim Hartrich

Sandra Henley

Heritage Church Round

Lake Beach

Women’s Ministry

Tami Hess

Megan Hoerl

Brittney Hourigan

Jackson & Stephanie

Huffman

Desiree Jung

Kara Laubenstein

Jordyn LeVay

Libertyville High School

Girls Basketball

Program

Valentine’s Day was a day of love and laughter

thanks to these generous donors. Thank you

for spreading the love throughout our program!

Daisy Girl Scout Troop 45766

Lake County Cares

Moms Club of Gurnee

Josie Volpendesta

Thank you to the many donors who provided

wish list items to our residents:

Jodi Abad

Advocate Medical Group

Edit Blom

Megan Brady

Megan Borchers

Lori Burns

Amy Cassidy

Claire Cherry

Ellie Gross

Cheryl & Frank Haas

Sophie Hammer

Meghan Jensen

Nora Kelly

Libertyville Noon Rotary

Debby Landsman

Amy Mason

Mary Metscavitz

A big thank you to the Pearlman family for

making holiday cards for the residents for

each and every holiday. The women and

children are always to uplifted by the

beautiful cards!

Thank you, Barb Antonoff, for donating two

boxes of new bras to the shelter. The women

are incredibly grateful for the “support!”

Spencer Loomis Elementary School

conducted a donation drive for new hats and

gloves this winter season. Thank you to the

students, teachers and families who

participated! Our women and children stayed

warm (and in style!) with all the wonderful

winter wear you collected.

We want to thank the wonderful young

women of the Libertyville High School Girls

Basketball Program for making service part

of their season this year. These young ladies

have organized donation drives for the

Haven, conducted bake sales to Adopt-a-

Night at the shelter, have volunteered with

community outreach and have made bagged

lunches for the shelter. Thank you for your

great support this season!

Jessica Maag

Kelly Mazurek

Elizabeth McCarty

Susan Milanak

Marysue Minkus

Montessori School of

Long Grove

Sharon Mueller

Ellen Myers

Ronee Oechsle

Alyssa & Jason

Osterman

Tatum, Lindsey &

Joey Pearlman

Natalie Potesta

Denise Ralph

Mike Ralph

Colin & Lia Reichart

Wendy Reiman

Rosalinda Rivero

Jane Scheff

Dawn Sinclair

Catherine Stewart

Jeanine Sweeney

Rachel Topolski

Stephanie Wahlund

Susie White

Mary Anne Yessian

Girl Scout Troop

40666

Girl Scout Troop

40841

Jodie Nalezny

Joy Palacios

Anne-Marie Prince

Belinda Quaiyoom

Melanie Riedl

Kayla Schmidt

Nancy Schroeder

Kelly Smith

Kate Stewart

Marilyn Struss

Kathryn Swanson

Jo Ann Totoni

Sanka Verratti

Anne Weber Ross

Grace Werner

Jodi Zachara

Thank you to Landscape Concepts

Management for generously providing lawn

care for Lake County Haven’s office

and shelter.

Shakou Sushi in Libertyville hosted their first

Shakou Cares Day on Tuesday, January

9th to benefit Lake County Haven. Thank

you, Shakou, for your great support, and

thank you to everyone who dined at Shakou

that day to support the Haven!

Gary Johnston generously donated a new

laptop computer and gift card to our shelter.

Thank you, Gary!

Thank you to the Walgreens Retail Products

team for assembling cold weather care

packages for our residents this winter!

Thank you to Greg Gratz for assisting us

with snow removal when we were

unprepared for the first big snow fall of the

season. We really appreciate it!

On Sunday, January 28th, Mickey Finn’s

Brewery and Shanti Grace Yoga hosted an

event, Yoga For A Cause, that raised over

$1,200 for Lake County Haven. Thank you

to Mickey Finn’s and Shanti Grace for

donating their time and facilities, as well as

everyone who attended in support of

the Haven!

Thank you to the Pritchard Family for

generously donating a couch to our shelter!

Dave Padula saved the day (once again!)

by donating plumbing services to several of

our properties. Thank you, Dave, for always

making sure our plumbing needs are taken

care of!

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Lake County Haven provides food,

safety, shelter, counseling and life-

skills training to women and children

who are trying to find a path out of

homelessness. Each and every day,

our residents work to rebuild their

lives. For many, it is a constant,

uphill struggle. Here is...

One Woman’s Journey.

A Bump in the Road

Sophia never had a family. Not in any

real sense of the word. Her earliest

memories are of emotional and

physical abuse. It was so bad that by

age 3, she was sent to live with her

aunt to escape the abuse. But what

could have saved her, only brought

more pain and suffering. Sophia was

told over and over again that her

parents did not love her, that they

abandoned her because they did not

want her.

This led Sophia down a dark and

dangerous path of despair. Drugs

were the only thing that helped her

manage the painful emotions she

kept deep down inside. Eventually,

Sophia found herself living in an

abandoned building, starving and

desperate. She imagined she would

have died in that building like so

many others she’d seen.

Stopping for Directions

But with a baby boy to care for,

Sophia found the strength to go to

rehab. She was there long enough to

clear her mind from chemicals, but

still had no place to go. No way to

support herself and her son. This is

when she was brought to Lake

County Haven. Now, Sophia was

surrounded by love and support. For

the first time, she did not feel alone

in the world. She got a full time job,

paid off her debt, and has opened a

savings account with a nest-egg for

her and her son.

The Path Ahead

Sophia is getting ready to graduate

our program. She and her son are

doing great and have found a lovely

little home for just the two of them.

Her little one will be starting school

soon, and Sophia has plans to do the

same. We wish them the best of luck

in their new adventure.

SOFIA

Big Hearts, Bright Spaces We are so grateful to our friends at CDW@Play and the entire Bright

Horizons family for creating this beautiful “Bright Space” in our

shelter playroom. This project was truly transformational!

Thank you to everyone who came together to make this happen:

CDW@Play

Jennifer Carrier (Director) & Jeff Carrie

Jena Parry (Lead K-prep Teacher) & Don Jajko

Lorraine Smith (Lead Toddler Teacher)

Dearhaven Child Care

and Learning Center

Kristin Pasdon (Director) & Ray Flynn

Kate Hilbrant (Resource Teacher)

Candice Eagon (Preschool Teacher)

Stevan Pastor (Son of a Dearhaven Employee)

Walgreens Child Care Center

Kirsten VazEs-Hess (Director)

Catherine Koziol (Preschool Teacher)

BEFORE

AFTER

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Volunteers gather to create valentines for the residents in our shelter.

We are so pleased with the progress of our new

volunteer group, Friends of Lake County

Haven. Volunteers from the community have

come together during each monthly event we

have hosted to spread kindness and cheer to

the residents at Lake County Haven. We hope

you can join us for our upcoming Friends of

Lake County Haven events!

Make Mother's Day Brunch

Sunday, May 6, 2018; 10:00 am – Noon

Summer Yard Clean Up

Saturday, June, 2018; 10:00 am — Noon

Random Acts of Kindness

Wednesday, July 18, 2018; 10:00 am – Noon

Distribute Flyers in Lake County

Tuesday, August 7, 2018; 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

To RSVP to any of these events, or to learn

more about Friends of Lake County Haven,

please contact our Volunteer & Events

Coordinator, Maria Sievert, at 847-680-1870

or [email protected].

A child shares a Valentine's Day card she

made for a resident.

Volunteers hang garland at the shelter.

Volunteers gather at the shelter to set up the Christmas tree and other holiday decor.

Volunteers help make

dinner for the residents in our shelter.

Non-profit Organization

U.S. Postage

Paid Permit No. 445

Lake Forest, IL 60045

P.O. Box 127

Libertyville, IL 60048

www.LakeCountyHaven.org

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Find out about upcoming Haven events

See our current wish list

View pictures of yourself and your friends

at the last Haven gathering

Be informed about homelessness in

your community

www.LakeCountyHaven.org

All-purpose cleaner

Automobiles (donate your used

car!)

Clorox or Lysol wipes

Copy paper

Frozen meat

Fruits & vegetables

(frozen or fresh)

Furniture polish (wood safe)

Garbage bags: kitchen size & large

size

Gift cards to Target, Walmart,

Home Depot, Jewel, Lowes

Hand soap

Murphy’s Oil Soap

Paper towels

Postage stamps

WISH LIST

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