{"id":90188,"date":"2025-08-17T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:20:07","slug":"heartland-family-service-golf-tournament-supports-domestic-violence-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90188\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Family Service golf tournament supports domestic violence survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHeartland Family Service held its annual golf tournament to raise community support and awareness for domestic violence survivors, highlighting the critical role of their services in providing hope and protection.&#8221;I know friends that have personally been affected by domestic violence. It holds close to my heart,&#8221; Abby Garcia, a participant.Garcia emphasized the importance of organizations that provide help, noting, &#8220;A lot of people hide and don&#8217;t know what to do and don&#8217;t know that there are organizations out here to get help.&#8221;John Jeanetta, CEO of Heartland Family Service, highlighted the persistent issue of domestic violence in the community. &#8220;It&#8217;s a major problem in our community that needs to be addressed, and it&#8217;s not going anywhere,&#8221; he said. Jeanetta stressed the critical role of their services.&#8221;Without us, survivors have nowhere to go. And, and when they don&#8217;t have these access to these services, people die,&#8221; he said.Heartland&#8217;s 24\/7 helpline, safe housing, and therapy are vital resources. &#8220;Last year, we served 98 survivors in our shelter, and 80% were able to leave there and go into permanent safe housing,&#8221; Jeanetta said.In 2025, nearly 225 survivors sought legal services from Heartland, including protection orders and divorce processing. &#8220;Very essential pieces that helped lead somebody in this situation to a place of safety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People believe in our mission and the work that we do.&#8221;Celebrating their 150th anniversary, Jeanetta acknowledged the community&#8217;s role in their success.&#8221;We exist today because of the community. And this golf tournament is a really excellent example of how the community supporting this work really makes a difference,&#8221; he said.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOMAHA, Neb. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Heartland Family Service held its annual golf tournament to raise community support and awareness for domestic violence survivors, highlighting the critical role of their services in providing hope and protection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know friends that have personally been affected by domestic violence. It holds close to my heart,&#8221; Abby Garcia, a participant.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia emphasized the importance of organizations that provide help, noting, &#8220;A lot of people hide and don&#8217;t know what to do and don&#8217;t know that there are organizations out here to get help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Jeanetta, CEO of Heartland Family Service, highlighted the persistent issue of domestic violence in the community. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a major problem in our community that needs to be addressed, and it&#8217;s not going anywhere,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Jeanetta stressed the critical role of their services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without us, survivors have nowhere to go. And, and when they don&#8217;t have these access to these services, people die,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Heartland&#8217;s 24\/7 helpline, safe housing, and therapy are vital resources. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, we served 98 survivors in our shelter, and 80% were able to leave there and go into permanent safe housing,&#8221; Jeanetta said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, nearly 225 survivors sought legal services from Heartland, including protection orders and divorce processing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very essential pieces that helped lead somebody in this situation to a place of safety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People believe in our mission and the work that we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating their 150th anniversary, Jeanetta acknowledged the community&#8217;s role in their success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We exist today because of the community. And this golf tournament is a really excellent example of how the community supporting this work really makes a difference,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>NAVIGATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weather<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local News<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/national-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sports<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/nowcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newscasts on demand<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heartland Family Service held its annual golf tournament to raise community support and awareness for domestic violence survivors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[61625,61627,30102,857,61624,8018,61622,427,61621,20257,61623,983,6377,25924,12325,28818,3590,19870,61626,10822,99,47441,2099,15186],"class_list":["post-90188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-abby-garcia","tag-annual-golf-tournament","tag-awareness","tag-community-support","tag-critical-role","tag-domestic-violence","tag-domestic-violence-survivor","tag-golf","tag-heartland-family-services","tag-help","tag-john-jeanetta","tag-local-news","tag-national","tag-omaha","tag-organization","tag-organizations","tag-people","tag-protection","tag-safe-housing","tag-service","tag-sports","tag-survivors","tag-tournament","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}