Cherokee Family Violence Center Searching for Help
Do you want to make an impact with women and children in need? This job is for you.
Do you want to make an impact with women and children in need? This job is for you.
Do you want to make an impact with women and children in need? This job is for you.
More people leave Cherokee for work than any other county in metro Atlanta. Do you want to work closer to home? The Cherokee Family Violence Center is looking for part-time workers to help out around the facility. Workers will interact with women and children, and will work overnights and weekends. Workers must be willing to clean their assigned areas. To apply for this position, fax your resume to (770) 479-2738. To peruse the Canton-Sixes Patch classifieds, click here. Don’t miss any of the local news you care about. Subscribe to Canton-Sixes Patch’s free newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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After a Cumming man allegedly shot a Canton woman in front of their children Sunday, the Cherokee Family Violence Center wants to revisit the judicial process meant to protect victims of domestic violence.
The executive director of the Cherokee Family Violence Center pored over the court files of Shannon Lawrence, the 25-year-old Canton woman who died after Sunday's fatal custody swap in Milton. The files, Meg Rogers said, revealed a woman who was afraid. "She’s reporting it to law enforcement," she said. "She’s reporting it to the court. She says in her court pleadings he has guns" and asks authorities to remove all weapons from her ex-boyfriend's Cumming home. That ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old Christopher Erdman, is now in the Fulton County Jail, accused of shooting Lawrence four times in the face and neck in front of their children. For more than 25 years, the Cherokee Family Violence Center in Canton has assisted battered women. Lawrence …
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Nancy
5:45 pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2011
I minister to Single Moms every day and hear how badly the system fails them. Thank you Meg Rogers of CFVC for stepping forward on behalf of the memory of Shannon and so many others that need help. I hope the judges and courts will listen. Our courts and laws are often lop sided and unfair and a woman has to be homeless and/or physically harmed before anyone steps in to help. It's a tragedy and …   more ›