On the heels of receiving our Champion award from the Children’s Bureau, we were notified that Children’s Home Shelter for Family Safety and Program Director Amy Carter won prestigious Purple Ribbon Awards from DomesticShelters.org.

The Purple Ribbon Awards are the first comprehensive awards program honoring the countless heroes of the domestic violence movement, including advocates, programs, shelters, survivors and members of the community support system. $30,000 worth of grants will be awarded to exemplary Purple Ribbon Award winners during a virtual celebration of all winners on May 18, 2023.

In the Program/Shelter of the Year budget greater than $2,000,000 category, Children’s Home Shelter for Family Safety was chosen as a winner, along with shelters in Schenectady, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.

In the Program/Shelter Executive of the Year budget greater than $2,000,000 category, Amy Carter was one of three Purple Ribbon Award winners!

Winners include entries from the United States and Canada. Each nominated entry was scored by three judges on a 1-25 scale across four factors:

1. Challenge & Impact (the scope of the challenge faced and overcome)
2. Creativity & Originality (the inventiveness of the nominee in their endeavor)
3. Submission Excellence (the caliber of the materials accompanying the entry)
4. Overall (the overall performance of the entry relative to other entries).

There were three separate competitions within each category to provide organizations the opportunity to be reviewed among their peers. To ensure parity, this was done by classifying entries into one of three groups based on the size of a nominee’s organizational budget: 1) Less than $500,000, 2) Between $500,001 and $2,000,000 and 3) Greater than $2,000,000.

2023 marks the third year of the Purple Ribbon Awards, presented by Theresa’s Fund, the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates DomesticShelters.org