A Safe Place
Kate Stephan-Cothell has over 25 years of experience in development, marketing, and event coordination. Currently serving as the Development and Marketing Coordinator at A Safe Place since November 2007, Kate also holds the position of Income Development Chair on the Board of Directors for Racine Friendship Clubhouse since April 2013. Prior experience includes roles as Event and Volunteer Coordinator at Lambs Farm and Director of Guest Services at Racine Zoo. Kate's educational background includes involvement with Leadership Racine, attendance at UW Parkside, and graduation from Washington Park High School.
A Safe Place
For more than four decades, A Safe Place has provided services to victims of domestic violence & human trafficking and their families in Lake County, Illinois. A Safe Place is guided by the following mission: As the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence and human trafficking in northern Illinois, A Safe Place provides a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter, individual therapy, family therapy, art therapy, group therapy, affordable housing, advocacy, education and outreach, supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking and their children, a mentoring program, custody exchanges, supervised visitations, assistance with orders of protections, and intervention services for abusers to learn accountability for their choices and actions. A Safe Place strives to lessen the impact abuse has had on adults and children by providing services that remove barriers to leaving their abuser and transforming their lives after abuse. Programs and services of A Safe Place are evidenced-based, client-centered, and reflect a trauma-informed approach to direct services for survivors of domestic abuse and their children. Services were designed to meet the immediate crisis and long term needs of domestic violence & human trafficking victims and their children and to prevent domestic violence & human trafficking.