VIP Online - January 2010
 Happy New Year! VIP is riding high on the success of the Holiday Gift Drive. Your tremendous generosity meant every child at VIP and all of their siblings had a present to open this Christmas. That’s over 1,000 smiles of gratitude and wonder you brought to life. Thank you!
With the new Forensic Urgent Care Center in operation, we are focused on putting all of our facilities to best use for our clients and opening the doors just a little wider to make sure no one in need is struggling to find their way in.
Change Lives
January is National Mentoring Month. Anyone who has mentored a child will tell you that they have benefited as much if not more from the time they spend with their mentee as the child has. This is certainly true of the hundreds of volunteers who mentor and tutor VIP clients. While mentors work hard to encourage their mentees in the pursuit of their hopes and dreams, they often find an endless source of inspiration in the sincerity, humility, innocence and inner strength they see in their mentees. Mentors are people that these children can trust with their lives, health, ambitions, successes and failures; and everyone can always use one more person to trust. We salute our VIP Mentors and honor their service to the community!
Tune In
VIP Executive Director, Dr. Astrid Heppenstall Heger, will appear on Sen. Bill Bradley’s show, American Voices, this Sunday, January 24 on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. Inspired by the Senator’s fascination with the diversity of the American life story, this weekly, non-partisan show highlights the remarkable accomplishments of people both famous and unknown.
American Voices airs at 2 a.m., 6 a.m., 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET on Sirius Channel 102 and XM Channel 155. For more information about show times or to listen online visit http://www.sirius.com/siriusxmstars.
Speak Out
Tickets are on sale for the annual USC Keck School of Medicine Student performance of the internationally renowned stage play “The Vagina Monologues”. The performance coincides with V-Day, a worldwide movement to end violence against women and girls founded by Eve Ensler, playwright, actress, and activist.
There will be two performances - Thursday, February 11 at 8 p.m. and Friday, February 12 at 8 p.m. – in the Hoffman Hall Auditorium on the USC Health Sciences Campus in East Los Angeles.
Tickets are $12 and can be reserved by contacting Priyanka Kadam, student organizer for the event. Proceeds will support the VIP 24-Hour Domestic Violence Response Team.
Save the Date
Please plan on joining us on Wednesday, April 21 at The Colony Theater in Burbank for a staged reading of the critically acclaimed play “Whatever Your Heart Desires” featuring special guest performer Ed Asner. The play was written by Christine Rosensteel-Savalla, a member of the Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Forensic Center, and touches on the issues of elder abuse and aging in our society.
Tickets will go on sale soon! This benefit performance will provide resources for the Forensic Center as they evaluate and prosecute cases of elder abuse throughout the County. If you would like more information or you are interested in sponsoring this unique event contact, Erica Blodgett, 323-221-4134, ext. 219.
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