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October 28, 2002

A WOMAN IS BEATEN EVERY SIX MINUTES.(1)

IN THE TOWN OF MONTCLAIR ALONE, POLICE RESPOND TO SOME 300 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALLS ANNUALLY - MORE THAN 25 CALLS A MONTH - MOST OF WHICH ARE NEW CASES. (2)

In light of these staggering statistics, Goals for Life, Inc.,(3) will donate proceeds from its 2003 fund raising activities to raise awareness and to assist the Domestic Violence Response Teams in Montclair, Verona, Cedar Grove, Nutley and Glen Ridge.

The Domestic Violence Response Team Services include:

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Teaching victims ways to stay safe and helping them to understand their legal rights and the restraining order process;

Providing referral services for family counseling;

Training volunteers to counsel victims at police headquarters and local hospitals around the clock;

Placing women in safe houses throughout New Jersey.

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Goals for Life, a Montclair based organization founded nearly three years ago, will donate money it raises to provide a much needed emergency transportation service for domestic violence victims and food and medical supplies for those victims in need. Donations will fund continuing education programs for existing and new volunteers, prevention education, self-defense programs and community awareness programs for adults and teens.

Domestic violence has finally been recognized as a complex social problem that requires coordinated community interaction and response. There is much more that needs to be done, and we need your help. You can support Goals for Life's fund raising efforts by becoming a sponsor of its 2003 Sports Memorabilia Auction at the Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair on Saturday, Feb. 8th and its Third Annual Women's Charity Soccer Tournament on Saturday, June 7th at Brookdale Park in Essex County. The enclosed sponsorship forms provide details.

Women of all cultures, races, occupations, income levels, and ages are battered - by husbands, boyfriends, lovers and partners.(4) These women are your neighbors. Please help them by supporting Goals for Life.

Sincerely,


Barbara Martoglio, President Goals for Life

1. New Jersey State Uniform Crime Reporter, March 2001
2. Montclair Department of Health, Sept. 2002
3. In the past two years, Goals for Life has raised and donated $60,000 to New Jersey-based breast cancer programs.
4. Surgeon General Antonia Novella, as quoted in Domestic Violence Battered Women, publication of the Reference Department of the Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA

In 2003, Goals for Life will donate proceeds from it's 2003 fund raising activities to raise awareness of the prevalence of domestic violence from adolescence throughout adulthood and to support Domestic Violence Response Teams in Montclair, Verona, Cedar Grove, Nutley and Glen Ridge, NJ.

GFL Volunteers at the June, 2002 Tournament