NHS Press Releases
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 25, 2000
NON-PROFIT TO EXPAND VIOLENCE PREVENTION EFFORTS TO NEIGHBORING COUNTIES
Rockville, MD - The New Horizons Support Network, Inc., a local non-profit educational organization with offices in Montgomery and Washington Counties, has announced plans to expand their violence prevention efforts into neighboring counties. These counties include Frederick, Prince Georges and Washington County in Maryland and Jefferson County in West Virginia. The program will mobilize like-minded organizations, businesses and individuals and provide a working forum for sharing concerns, ideas, and co-create solutions for violence prevention within the community. New Horizons launched a countywide
violence prevention effort in Montgomery County this past June beginning
with a series of four forums in Rockville on violence prevention.
To date, New Horizons efforts have resulted in:“It had been a steady uphill battle to gain public acknowledgement that there is any serious lack of safety and security in homes, schools, businesses and organizations. However, since the tragedy at Columbine High School, as well as similar catastrophes in other communities across the country, the tide has changed dramatically. The time is right for what we have to offer and we are more than ready to take up the challenge, full steam ahead! ” states Ms. Marcia E. Rosen, New Horizons Founder and Program Director.1. An alliance with Potomac Ridge Hospital The first step in expanding into neighboring counties will be an introduction of the “New Horizons Community Development and Violence Prevention Model”. Policing of schools and gun control can, perhaps, help stop the most dramatic episodes but it is not the only problems that needs to be dealt with to insure the wellbeing of all children. The New Horizon program goes beyond those issues and focuses on the roots of teen depression and the day-to-day hostilities that continue to divide people. New Horizons’ initial violence prevention efforts began in the mid-eighties with the creation of a network of support groups for handling relationship, personality addictions and co-dependency problems. Under the guidance of Ms. Rosen, a retired psychotherapist with twenty-eight years in the mental health field and now an author, public speaker, consultant and trainer, this model program is uniquely equipped to move into the areas of community development. The New Horizons program was originally created upon a therapeutic community model for prison rehabilitation. Volunteers are now being sought for help with the violence prevention project. Funding for the New Horizons Program, an approved 501c(3), is also needed to support the public application of the prototype. For more information call 301.424.6440. ### |
