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WellSpring Awarded for Service to Victims and Survivors of Abuse

CHICAGO, IL (October 31, 2003) - Dorothy Brown, clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, gave special recognition to WellSpring Center for Hope and its executive director Eloise Spencer during a ceremony on Monday morning.

The award was given at an event held at the Office of the Circuit Court Clerk in Chicago's Daley Center. Employees of the Office of the Circuit Court Clerk also gave donations to WellSpring to be given to children of domestic violence victims the agency serves.

A letter from Kathleen Monahan, the Circuit Court's domestic violence liaison reads: "...Dorothy Brown is pleased to honor you, Ms. Spencer, with a special recognition award for your many years of service to both the victims and survivors in the domestic violence community. The Clerk recognizes the work you have accomplished over and above the everyday demands of your various positions within the domestic violence community. Your dedication to the victims of domestic violence displays a quiet and humble model for others to appreciate and follow..."

WellSpring Center for Hope is an inner-city community domestic violence program founded in 1988 and sponsored by Covenant Ministries of Benevolence. It provides crisis intervention, individual counseling, family counseling, domestic violence education, service planning, support groups, referral for services, legal advocacy, non-legal advocacy and community outreach. It has been affective for those who have been abused or in danger of being abused in areas throughout Chicago.

For more about WellSpring, call 773-723-2119.

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