Loudonville Library Friends to hear about abuse shelter agency
LOUDONVILLE − Rebecca Jentes Garcia will speak about “Providing a Safe Space” during a Friends of the Loudonville Library at 2 p.m. Monday, May. 1.
For the past four years she has served as the director of Safe Haven, which offers free emergency shelter to adult survivors and their children who are fleeing domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, stalking and other forms of abuse in Ashland County. It is a program of the nonprofit Appleseed Community Mental Health.
Garcia graduated from Ashland High School in 1992 and received a bachelor’s degree from Ashland University in 1995. She continued earned a master’s degree in pastoral clinical counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary in 2005. She has been a registered advocate since 2020.
She is the mother of Daniel, 16, and Samuel, 14.
Before working at Safe Haven, she was in the criminal justice field of corrections. Garcia recently completed a term as a member of the Ashland Christian School Board and attends Bethel Baptist Church in Savannah. She enjoys running outdoors and reading.
All Friends programs are open to the public. Programs are held in the lower level of the library.
This article originally appeared on Ashland Times Gazette: Safe Haven director to speak at Friends of Loudonville Library meeting
