The mission of Wynona’s House is to promote the healing of victims of child abuse by providing a strong community response to investigation, prosecution, treatment and prevention of child abuse.
This is accomplished by providing a safe, child-friendly environment for child abuse investigations and treatment; supporting a multi-disciplinary process to working with child abuse victims; and working with the community to develop and enhance services to child abuse victims and prevention programs.
The Vision of Wynona’s House is to create an enduring community collaboration of public and private entities to foster a healing process that protects children of abuse and reduces the number of victims of abuse. Wynona’s House seeks to accomplish its Vision through comprehensive treatment, education, prevention, public advocacy and our commitment to seek justice on behalf of child abuse victims, their families and our community.
Wynona’s House strives to help lead this effort by providing our community affiliates with the necessary institutional environment and full panoply of known and emerging services needed to heal and prevent child abuse. Wynona’s House is committed to applying all of the energy, resources and talents of its Board of Trustees, staff, community affiliates, and community supporters to accomplish this Vision.
To this end, Wynona’s House will work continuously to educate itself and our community affiliates about the growing knowledge and understanding of the blight of child abuse and we will not hesitate to identify and develop innovative approaches and solutions to the problem.
Wynona M. Lipman was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in 1971 – the first African-American to serve there and, for many years, the Senate’s only woman. Throughout her career, she was known as the ‘Steel Magnolia’ for her persistence in adhering to her principles and priorities while always maintaining grace, elegance, and style – an iron hand in a velvet glove!
Wynona was born in LaGrange, Georgia. Her educational achievements included a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Sorbonne, in Paris. For nearly three decades, Wynona represented Newark’s 29th District and sponsored many groundbreaking legislative initiatives, including the Prevention of Domestic Violence Acts of 1981 and 1991, at the time, the toughest domestic violence legislation in the United States. She also pioneered legislative action on behalf of minority women and women-owned businesses, affirmative action, family leave, pay equity, and enforcement of child support.
Wynona M. Lipman, who died in 1999, was a trailblazer throughout her long and creative political career and was unwavering in her commitment to protecting the rights of children, women, and families. It is only fitting that Wynona’s House, dedicated to protecting children and families, bears her name.
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