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Karen
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Program
provides second chance
By Paula King TIMES STAFF WRITER
Deborah and Paul Spinola are utilizing land they inherited
from a relative to transform the lives of women in crisis
by helping them gain self-esteem and economic independence.
That relative was a victim of domestic violence for many
years, but she gained the courage to leave the unhealthy
situation. full
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Safe
Havens is expanding into welfare-to-work
By Allan Lopez WALNUT CREEK JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
In a nondescript building just off Clayton road in Concord
lies a factory where people are working to make pink,
aromatic candles from scratch. The candles are collected
with some other gifts--chocolate, bath oils and spaghetti
sauce, to name a few--which are then put into a metal
basket and wrapped with cellophane.
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Safe
Havens Gives Abused Women a Working Chance
By
Michelle Pentz
Karen
Justice-Guard has a compelling story and business
concept behind her newly spawned Safe Havens for Little
People, her supporters say. Now the challenge is to
get some financing behind the Concord nonprofit's
vision: to train disadvantaged and abused women and
get them employed. full
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Providing
SAFE Havens
Article published in Inside UPS, a monthly
magazine for UPS employees
"If I had to give just one reason why UPS chose Safe
Havens for Little People, it would be the passion
Karen has for helping others," says East Bay District
Human Resources Manager Stefond Harris, who served
on the Region/District Grant Committee. "She can personally
identify with those she helps because she's been there,
and she's rebuilt her life." full
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San
Ramon Woman Helps Rebuild Lives
By Suzanne Pardington STAFF WRITER
SAN
RAMON - In the past five years, Karen Justice-Guard
has kicked her drug and alcohol habit, left her husband,
gotten off welfare and started her own business.
Now
she's helping other women do the same thing. full
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A
Helping Program for Women
By Karen Hershenson Times columnist
KAREN
JUSTICE-GUARD has been through it all - heroin addition,
and a beating so severe, "I had no face." But she finally
got her life together, and now all her energy goes into
helping abused women on welfare reinvent themselves.
"I didn't know how to run my own life," she says. "I
made so many mistakes. My family was mad at me, I had
no self-esteem. You can't steal it, you can't buy it,
you have to earn it one day at a time." full
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