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WHO ARE WE
April May Many have heard of us,
but most have not until
that someone is you
Susan Abraham, Alex Abraham and Cooper or you are
someone’s daughter,
someone’s son,
be a voice someone’s wife,

someone’s parent.
for our community So, who are we?
What do we do?
We are BELIEVERS—
We are Project HELP!

Project Help staff at Naples Police Department
Are you a BELIEVER?
If so please consider volunteering,
joining us at
National Crime Victims Rights Week
on April 27, 2023 at Baker Park,
be a voice for our community,
your community where survivors will
be heard, BELIEVED and supported!

e are YOUR non-profit organization that is staffed by Imagine the Strength, the Courage that it takes “SOMEONE”
professional counselors and advocates that are committed to pick up the phone and reach out to Project HELP or the 24/7
Wto providing hope, empowerment, and healing to those HELPline. Imagine “SOMEONE” on their darkest of days asking
affected by sexual violence, violent crimes and sudden death of a for help; asking to relive that day as someone faces the trauma head
loved one as a result of a violent crime.
on. “Thank you for calling the crisis and sexual assault helpline this
Project HELP provides free counseling, advocacy services and
is April, how may I help you?” It begins with speaking to one of
a 24-Hour Crisis & Referral Helpline to our community, YOUR
our many volunteers on the line after-hours or one of four victim
community.
Project HELP has served Collier County for 37 years and we advocate counselors, or one of five therapists, or a Master Level
want everyone to know WHO we are, WHAT we do, and HOW to Intern, one of 14 BELIEVERS on the other end of the phone.
reach us if you or your someone ever needs our help. It begins with a session of crisis intervention. It begins with a
If you are reading this and you or your “someone” has not heard session of healing with a certified animal assisted therapy dog. It
of Project HELP, you may be thinking or saying—NOT my begins with EMDR Therapy-Eye Movement Desensitization and
community! NOT Naples, Florida! NOT Collier County! That— Reprocessing. It begins with Art Therapy. It begins with Dialectical
Rape does not happen here in paradise! Sadly, it does. . .
Behavior Therapy. It begins with a supportive person by your side
no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room! Project HELP
through the court system. It begins with Cognitive Behavioral
wants to normalize the conversation about Sexual Violence-YES-
Therapy for child survivors—YES, children too!
Rape! Astonishingly, Project HELP assists more than 5000 new
Every ‘’Someone” has a journey of healing. Project HELP can’t
clients each year, provides more than 10,000 client service hours
and answers 2,000 calls to the 24/7 HELPline— all of which are take away the trauma but Project HELP can help “someone” heal
completely FREE and confidential. from the trauma. It all begins with being a BELIEVER and talking
Now that you know the basics of who we are, what do we actually about the elephant in the room.
do? How does that “someone” go about contacting
Project HELP? Then what happens?

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