Note: This was originally published in our Summer 2018 newsletter. View the print version online on our newsletter page. In 2011, when The Crisis Center started answering chats in addition to the 24-hour Crisis Line, they talked to a couple people a day. Soon after, Contact USA started to organize chat services on a national […]

By Kristie Fortmann-Doser Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program   Note: This column was originally posted at thegazette.com. I remember 8 years ago when Becci Reedus, executive director of the Crisis Center of Johnson County, told me about an idea she had — it really just started because she wanted a parking lot. […]

Note: This was originally published in our Summer 2018 newsletter. View the print version online on our newsletter page. About 4,000 kids who live in Johnson County don’t know where or when they will get their next meal. Last year, 13,000 individuals received assistance from the food bank. Almost half of those were children under […]