The Child Rescue Foundation

safety, nourishment, love and shelter. This is regardless of the choices their parents/guardians made. We ask you to share this vision. We believe every child deserves love, safety, education and support for a healthy childhood, getting them ready to be productive adults in their community. We strive to reduce the amount of dependance on public assistance by filling the gap of needs with donations and support that provide a path to understanding a more self sufficient world. We give a hand up and not a hand out, with families assisting as they can in our support of their family. We are working daily to reduce the number of recidivism in families in the arena of domestic violence and homelessness with counseling, support, referrals and caring with counselors and personnel who can relate on a personal basis with their own personal experiences of recovery. We want to educate our children, and their families, with programs and services designed to promote empathy, peace and self sufficiency. Let's help the fill their bucket list, and also to get them a bucket to put it in...
We ask you to share this vision. Kids Empowering Kids

CRF 2022
From Victim to Victor
CRF 2022

Joanne Kappel, Founding Director, has worked in the not for profit sector for the past 6 years, and has assisted over 300 clients of stalking in their recovery. Kappel developed her commitment to assisting others through their crisis of domestic violence, like many others, from her personal experience as a victim. She was stalked for three years, both physically and through the court system. Though a dedicated mother ands now single parent, she has also been a commercial photographer for 40+ years. Numerous business ventures, including the management of a non-profit for 3 years, marks a varied and widely successful career. She had served as Board President of her Loft for 4 years. In addition to successfully suppressing her violent offender’s attempts to stalk, harass and assault her, Ms. Kappel, an effective neighborhood activist sought to improve security and enhance property values. Not afraid to enlist her support in the toughest and most provocative of issues, she resisted the lobbying of another liquor establishment in the neighborhood, by coordinating residents, government officials and media to rally the cause. Kappel “fought City Hall” and won. She then approached City Council and the Mayor to redesign a hazardous intersection for improved safety and accomplished her goal. Despite the volatile criminal environment, this advocate for others availed herself to facilitate mentor seminars to criminal youth offenders at the Colorado State Correctional Facility in Golden, Co. There she worked with young adults and children through her self-help “Positive Choices” program, to promote personal responsibility to offenders convinced that the only attention they were worthy of receiving was that which they received from crime and incarceration. Kappel has had the unique opportunity of serving as a ToughLove coordinator for a year, a group for the support of parents with troubled children. CRF has been a governing Board member of the Denver Domestic Violence Task Force and participate in VPEC (Violence Education prevention), COVA, CCADV and CWWDV Committees. We have also been instrumental in partnering with DDVTF in the “Event to Prevent”, sitting on 5 sub committees in an effort to raise the awareness of violence and the impact on our children, with the help of the Rapids and the Broncos. In a continuing effort to work with other community groups in raising the awareness of the issues of family violence, Ms. Kappel designed and coordinated the Spirit of Mothers Day event for 3 years. This event, sponsored in part by the US West Women’s Group, honored the mothers and victims of domestic violence homicide. In conjunction with this event, she rallied the support of Denver City Council Woman Debbie Ortega and Senator Mike Feeley to sponsor unanimous bills through perspective legislatures honoring the fallen victims and those enduring the daily terror of predator relationships each Mother’s Day. She is a certified trainer for a self-defense class for women who are being stalked, as well as a public speaker raising awareness of criminal stalking behavior and predator containment techniques. This year, our mission is to complete the Annual Teddy Bear Project ™ , an awareness raising event for the community to participate in raising funds and teddy bears for distribution by CRF, Inc. to advocates, crisis workers, police and firefighters, who often comfort children in tragic and lonely situations. In addition to elevating the financial status of the organization to better assist children and families, we will be working with faith organizations, corporations and community groups interested in directly impacting the immediate needs of kids in crisis, with a clearinghouse established to distribute cloths, food and many other items. Other programs include: the COP Project ™ Children’s Outreach Project™ servicing daily needs of children in crisis, Case Management Project ™- working with victims on case by case assessment and planning for safety, TACT classes for self defense and the Pencil Box Project™, serving over 900 homeless youth with school supplies. In addition, the Colorado Drug Endangered Children’s Program provides children impacted by drugs with a new beginning. CRF, Inc.’s mission, is to continue education and awareness of the crisis of domestic violence and to provide a voice for the children in family violence. We have been public speakers for this cause, working with children from elementary to middle school about the choices they make in their life, and effects of domestic violence on those who are still young and impressionable. The current trust fund , managed buy Paine Webber, is for the children, survivors, of domestic violence and stalking, who seek financial relief from an already stressful and overwhelming situation. Several key goals have been reached this year, including a 346 page workbook for victims of domestic violence and stalking, used by both adults and children in their recovery. The book “Paper Layers™”, a pictorial in depth look at her recovery process and tools, and a child’s book on domestic Violence called It’s Not Okay to Hit, a tool for adults and children to explore family violence are due out in the fall of 2003. Please access the web site for any further information you may need on this timely organization. In gratitude,


Joanne Kappel Executive Vice President

Results
We continue to outreach our community with referral programs that provide a holistic approach to recovery for youth and families that have been impacted by violence. Our programs provide positive ways for Kids to Empower Kids, because we know that our youth are the substance of our future. With a Board of 6, a Staff of 3, and volunteer database of 2000+ (with an average of 3 P/T Interns), we have managed to impact:
Total number of people impacted:
TBP: 175,000 children
Night in Honor of the Children: 25 children
Clearinghouse donations: 5920 families and children
Outreach: 626 families
Financial Assistance: 115
Lectures/Speaking Engagements:2863/ total number of children: 15,000
Web Site Inquiry’s: 11,000 annual

Cost of reactive care for a child and family in crisis: potentially- tens of thousands of dollars. Prevention: Priceless. CRF 2021
From Victim to Victor
CRF 2021