Knoxville, MD - New Horizons Support Network, Inc. which last month launched a county-wide violence prevention effort has announced a sparkling new addition to the project.  This new facet, operating under the name, Treasures For Safe Kids, invites county residents to donate their new and used treasures to the violence prevention project. The goods, often found cluttering attics, garages and basements, can then be converted into cash that willgo towards violence prevention efforts in the county. 

The Treasures program offers residents the benefit of receiving a fully deductible tax write off for their treasures,. simplifying their lives in terms of not having to arrange for personal garage sales and the moving and hauling of no longer useful goods and of knowing how and where the money from their donated property will be used. The entire county benefits, especially our children as personal (and business) treasures are converted into cash that is designated for county violence prevention efforts.

The way in which the program works is that residents can call Treasures For Safe Kids, temporarily using the phones of the New Horizons Support Network, Inc., to make arrangements for their donated possessions to be picked up and hauled off in return for their  fully deductible tax write off.  Treasures will arrange for moving and hauling and take responsility  for the distribution of these goods in return for cash that will go into their violence prevention efforts in Montgomery County. Thereby everybody wins; county residents get the tax write off and simplify their lives and living or work quarters, the county benefits as active effort to make our county a safer place to live are encouraged and supported.

County violence prevention efforts currently being sponsored by the New Horizons Support Network, Inc. include:

• Regular by invitation only town meetings on violence prevention, 
• A Summer Camp For Grown Up Kids, being held in August at the New Horizons Retreat Center in Harpers Ferry for violence prevention training of kids sixteen years old and above;
• The creation of a violence prevention coalition in conjunction with Potomac Ridge Psychiatric Hospital designed to ultimately bring every man, woman and child, business and organization concerned with violence prevention in Montgomery County into projects that reflect a sense of county unity and cooperation along with a visible depiction of all of the various violence prevention options currently operating actively in the county;
• An extensive recruitment of volunteers from among county residents,  young and old; specifically for violence prevention efforts; 
• The development of a web site by the New Horizons Support Network, Inc.to encourage and reward active violence prevention activity in the county.