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About Us
HISTORY
 Towards
summer’s end in 2002, Cinny faced a decision for her future.
With one year left to complete her master’s degree for
counseling, which path should she take upon completion? Should
she hang out a shingle for private practice, join an existing
practice or start a new venture? Cinny was profoundly aware
that the varied walks of women’s lives were worth hearing.
Many women could help other women with similar concerns but
not everyone would ever, or should ever, be a credentialed
therapist or social worker. There had to be a way to train
women to help each other. As a believer in God, she prayed for
guidance.
Within two weeks, the American
Association of Christian Counselors news-magazine arrived. In
it was an article about the Center for Women’s Ministries,
Inc. Here was a model for peer counseling worth looking into.
Cinny traveled to Bloomington
Indiana March of 2003 and completed the Center Director
training. The materials presented were excellent, with depth
and insight matching a paraprofessional level of education
similar to portions of the program she was completing for her
masters degree.
September 1st, 2003
she ‘declared’ as the founding day for the Eve Center, the
Cincinnati branch of the Center for Women’s Ministries, Inc.
She had a laptop computer, a cell phone and several notebooks
of materials, no volunteers and no office yet.
Within two months she received the two sites used to
this day. The Silverton/Kenwood site opened its doors in June
2004 and is housed in a suite of rooms at the Fellowship of
Jesus Christ Church. The second site opened March 2005 and is
provided by Pregnancy Center West, Inc. in Price Hill. Both
locations are provided rent free and utility free.
An Advisory Team, the local
board of directors, formed fall of 2003. The first class of
trained peer support volunteers began seeing clients for peer
counseling end of June, 2004. We have been asked to open sites
in Middletown, Northern Kentucky, and East Hamilton or West
Clermont counties. Much has been accomplished is a short time.
Please see the FACT SHEET.
This
will provide the current statistics and bulleted information.
MISSION
STATEMENT
Eve Center mission
statement: Provide
free, faith based peer counseling by women to women age 13 and
above seeking to regain their mental, emotional and spiritual
health.
Center
for Women’s Ministries, Inc. national mission statement:
To equip volunteer staff across the world by prayer support,
consultation services and resource materials so they may
establish and sustain centers to provide crisis intervention
with a spiritual emphasis and improve the quality of life for
hurting women.
ST
writes:
“Eve Center is a place where God led me to be healed and
loved. It’s filled with wonderful, caring and safe women
who understand me better than I understand myself at times.
It’s a place to learn about yourself, the truth of God and
how I can fit in on God’s team.”
ST
 CENTER FOR WOMEN'S MINISTRIES,
INC.
Eve Center is
a branch of the Center for Women’s Ministries, Inc founded
in 1989. The
national office is in Bloomington, Indiana. It grew from the
Holy Spirit-led conviction that although there are many social
service agencies available, the element lacing in emotional
healing is a spiritual emphasis.
“We’ve
been where you are.”
Our
national motto says it well. Each of us has learned many life
lessons. We have a wealth of information and experience to
share. We have been hurt, often beyond repair, or so we
thought. Because of the grace of God and the support of
others, our lives have been changed. Now it is time to walk
with other women who have “been where we were.”
Eve
Center is the Cincinnati branch of the Center for Women’s
Ministries, Inc. To find out more about our national umbrella
organization, where other centers are located around the
world, or about beginning a center in your area, please go to www.centerforwomensministries.org,
email inatlcwm@centerforwomensministries.org
or telephone 812.333.1555.
LIMITATION OF SERVICES
 Our “volunteer peer
counselors” are not professionals and should not be a
substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or
medical care. They are trained volunteers here to share with
and support you.
The Eve Center is strictly a
volunteer organization and is not equipped to provide primary
care for women exhibiting active mental illness although many
of our clients are in a healing and stabilized position and
therefore we are glad to be a part of her support system. The
Eve Center cannot be her primary point of service.
The Eve Center is strictly a
volunteer organization and is not equipped to provide primary
care for women exhibiting active, regular use of drugs and
alcohol. Our clients may struggle with drugs and alcohol but
are in a healing and stabilized position and therefore we are
glad to be a part of her support system. The Eve Center cannot
be her only point of service for alcohol and drug dependence
and/or addiction.
We also are not trained to assist
children and therefore it is usually inappropriate to see a
child below the age of 13 years.
While a wide range of education
and experience is represented throughout the volunteers, all
are simply that at the Eve Center, volunteers.
WTS
writes:
“Eve Center provides a safe place for women ages 13 and
above to come to get encouragement on a spiritual, biblical
basis. Though the staff is not professional, their
contribution is one of a para-professional. They come along
side of other women to walk her through some of life’s
rough spots, so that she can stand strengthened and
independent. We walk with them “through the valley” so
they may again enter into the sunshine.”
WTS
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