Changes Ahead
Along with our 30 year anniversary, we are welcoming in some visual and digital updates!
As we move forward into a new fiscal year, we are excited to share stories surrounding our innovation, connection, and accomplishment. Peace House began as a grassroots movement, and has since evolved into something not only instrumental, but vital to our community. The disruption and eradication of violence within our shared spaces will always be at the core of our organization. We are also committed to constantly learning, improving, and adapting to changing needs and times.
Our mission, vision and values are not changing. Our website and brand updates, however, mark a pivotal moment of change in our organization's history. Stay tuned for a beautiful brand new look next month!
Board Updates
New Board Chair, Angela Orkin
"I am honored and excited to step into the role of Board Chairperson of Peace House. While the needs of survivors are clearly on the rise, I am confident we have the staff and leadership team to meet the challenge. I look forward to working with Kendra to support the next phase of growth and development, and to working with the Board to expand our work to meet the growing need. I believe the work we are doing to support survivors of interpersonal violence and sexual assault is critical not only for their health and well being, but also for the future of their families and our community."
Past Board Chair, Richard Urankar
"Serving four years as the Peace House Board Chairperson is a privilege and a memory that I will always value above many of my other life experiences. I have had the opportunity to work in positions that helped people improve or change their life, but never an opportunity like Peace House that helps people ‘save’ their life. Being a witness to the extremely courageous survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault not only validates the work Peace House does, but lifts up and inspires all of us to be better.”
“I would like to thank my fellow Board Members for their continued passion, time, and commitment to Peace House, I would like to thank the very professional and capable Peace House staff for their personal dedication to serve others; especially in this capacity, I would like to thank our greater Park City community for their financial and emotional support of Peace House, and I would like to thank our survivors of interpersonal violence and sexual assault for showing our community that with strength, courage, and resolve there is always a way forward. Their example brings hope to everyone."
We are a Women's Giving Fund Finalist!
Help us equip all K–12 students in Summit County with age-appropriate violence prevention education by retaining a dedicated Prevention Specialist to deliver body and relationship safety curriculum in local schools!
Peace House seeks support to sustain a Prevention Specialist position that delivers Utah Board of Education approved violence prevention curricula in every school district in Summit County. This specialist provides critical, age-specific instruction to students from kindergarten through 12th grade on topics including body safety, identifying trusted adults, and forming healthy relationships. In the 2024–25 school year, the program reached 3,476 students and faculty across 178 presentations.
Vote for Peace House for the Women’s Giving Fund now through July 13 at parkcitycf.org/votewgf.
4th of July
We appreciate everyone who took the time to spend with us on the 4th of July, and hope it got your holiday started off right!
Events
Shop with a Queen July 10th!
Get more when you give back - shop With A Queen for Peace House on July 10 from 5-8PM. Members of the Peace House team, and beauty queens will be there to help you pick out the best pieces!
Join us at City Creek (50 S Main St Suite 271, Salt Lake City, UT 84101) to shop with a 20% discount with the Continental Worldwide Pageant queens in-person during the event, or shop online now with code GIVEBACK-JKHDM. This code will you 20% off at KendraScott.com!
Safe Bars Program
Safe Bars helps alcohol-serving spaces create safe, welcoming and respectful environments for their patrons and staff. At least half of all sexual assaults involve alcohol consumption by the aggressor, the target, or both, making alcohol-serving spaces and the hospitality industry as a whole a critical platform to address sexual violence. Though alcohol consumption and sexual assault frequently happen together, alcohol use doesn’t cause sexual assault.
The link is complicated, and it’s important to understand the nuances of this relationship to prevent sexual assault and avoid victim-blaming more effectively. Given the relationship between alcohol and sexual assault, it’s critical that we build a safer culture in bars, restaurants, breweries, distilleries, clubs, conferences, events, and other alcohol-related spaces that don’t tolerate harassment or assault.
The free two-hour training teaches bar and restaurant employees useful and safe tools to handle alleged violent individuals. Businesses that get the training receive a year certification from Peace House.
Direct: Directly approaching a suspected perpetrator to let them know their behavior is bothering another person.
Distract: Distracting the suspected perpetrator by putting their focus on something else.
Delegate: Delegating tasks to staff so they also feel safe and comfortable.
Document: Documenting the physical characteristics of the suspected perpetrator if their behavior doesn’t change.
Delay: Delaying the suspected perpetrator from further interactions with another person by removing them to another space.