Victoria Green serves Jacksonville community on Spring Break

2017 Mar 9

Victoria Green of Liberty, SC, is on a community-service, alternative spring break trip sponsored by Coastal Carolina University's Office of Student Life from Saturday, March 4, to Saturday, March 11.

Four students traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., to work with nonprofit agencies tdealing with domestic and sexual violence prevention. Torey Green and Heather Williams, the student site leaders, and Eddie Harris and Alexis Schemmel are working with the Children's Home Society of Florida and the Quigley House. The Children's Home Society works to heal children who have been hurt, create strong and stable families, and break the generational cycle of child abuse in families. The students are helping with maintenance, yard work and spring cleaning on CHS grounds.

The Quigley House offers individual, group and child counseling, a 24-hour shelter, 24-hour crisis hotline, community education and case management. All services are provided free to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The CCU students are assisting the Quigley House by helping organize its on-site thrift store.