May 12, 2014 – Peoria, IL – The Center for Prevention of Abuse offers healthy relationship programming to area schools.  One of the programs offered through the Prevention Services Department, HARTS, (Helping All Relationships To be Safe) is designed for young women in grades six through twelve. They learn the tools necessary to form healthy family, dating and peer relationships. Students put their newly acquired knowledge and skills into action as they work together to create a hands-on project to benefit their community.
This school year the 8th grade HARTS girls from Bartonville Grade School created a project called “On the Go Bags”, which they will deliver to the Salvation Army for men who are homeless. These bags contain:

• pair of men’s socks (the girls did a sock drive at school to get the socks for the bags)
• washcloth
• soap
• toothbrush
• toothpaste
• lotion
• water bottle
• coupon for a free Hardee’s chicken tenders
• note of encouragement written by the girls

WHEN: Thursday – May 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm
WHERE: Salvation Army, 414 N.E. Jefferson, Peoria, IL 61603

For more information on prevention programs, please contact
Marcia Bolden at 691-0551
or email: PreventionEd@centerforpreventionofabuse.org