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Garden of Innocence National
Who are we? We are people that care - a lot! We are going to make sure no child leaves this earth without someone who cared! We are going to build a Garden of Innocence in every state so this will not happen. We are going to strive to bring communites together to help us care for these children and know that they are doing the right and good thing. What we need is your help one state at a time! We are a non-profit, non-denominational and completely run by community volunteers.
April 12th 2013
Elissa will be traveling to San Francisco to support the new baby going into the Garden on Friday April 12th at 1 PM. On Saturday, she will be traveling to Sacramento to meet with Lisa West of East Lawn Memorial park to visit Sierra Hills Memorial Park to look at a space that East Lawn is thinking of providing to Garden of Innocence/Sacramento County & Placer County.
On Saturday she will also be traveling to Placer County to meet with the volunteers that want to help run this garden, make blankets and help with wood working.
On Monday and Tuesday, she will be meeting with Sheriff Coroner Yatt, to see if they will allow us to help with the indigent burials of children. We are very excited about this new garden.
February 2013
Elissa traveled to Fresno to have a meeting with the coordinators of Garden of Innocence/San Joaquin Valley to discuss fund raising ideas. We had a very pleasant visit and toured the new garden. They added a tree that they will be decorating for holidays to get people involved in the garden. What a great idea. Everyone that helps run this garden are wonderful caring people and we are so grateful that they found us. Thank you Roy, Donna and Elaine, you are amazing!
Netreia, traveled to a very large meeting in Rochester, New York to speak with everyone involved in that new garden. She had a sucessful meeting and we are in hope that this Garden of Innocene/Rochester, NY will be up and running by summer.
October 2012
October 4th, Elissa will be flying to Baltimore, Maryland, as we will have a booth at the National Medical Examiners Convention. We are hopeful that we will be able to get our information out to many MEs across America and save the Garden money in travel costs to meet each one individually. Wish us luck!
September 2012
September 25th: We did it! We got Fresno County Board of of Supervisors to approve a Garden of Innocence here in Fresno county.
We will need a lot help here for this first service as there will be 18 babies.
September 4th, Netreia and Elissa will be meeting with Bishop McKinney who has promised to get our information directly into President Obama's hands. We have been searching for a government grant and there is none that are available for us, so we are hopeful with a little help from Washington, we can find some help and also let President Obama know the plight of these children.
September 17th, Elissa has been invited to speak at the California Coroners Symposium in Orange and they also donated a booth for us. We are hopeful this wil get the word out about us to many of California's Counties and save us travel money in trying to go there and meet each one.
September 24th, Elissa will be returning to Fresno for a press conference and a meeting with the County Board of Directors & County Council for the final decision to have a Garden of Innocence in Fresno County.
August 2012
Elissa will be flying to Fresno, CA on August 28 to meet with Elaine at Mt. View Cemetery along with Kelly Wiefel, Deputy Coroner of Fresno to see the land that Mt. View Cemetery would like to donate to the new Garden in Fresno. We are almost there. There are still a few issues that need to be ironed out with the Board of Supervisors and we are hopeful that this will be completed soon.
There are 16 babies waiting for us there.
August 11th we welcomed Baby George to Garden of Innocence/San Diego.
July 2012
July 28th, we welcomed babies MarcieAnn, Travis and David to Garden of Innocence/San Diego.
June 2012
June 15 at 1:00 PM
Memorial Service for two babies in
Garden of Innocence/Bay Area
San Francisco Columbarium
1 Lorraine Court San Francisco
If you are in the area, please plan on attending. It's such a beautiful place. This garden is in very much need of donations so please consider donating to this wonderful garden.
May 2012
Had a wonderful talk with Debbie Jackson of Sterling, Alaska. She wants to help us establish new Garden of Innocences in Alaska. Even though Debbie is confined to her chair, she is pretty mighty with the computer on her lap, so I know she will work hard to make this happen. Thank you Debbie!
April 2012
In April we traveled to the west side of the state of New York and started laying the ground work for Garden of Innocence to come to New York. Thanks to Neteria Carroll, we were well received by the commissioners she spoke to and we are hoping that we will hear some good news soon about opening new gardens in New York.
March 2012
March 13th we will be traveling to Maricopa County, Arizona to meet the coroner's office to see if they will allow us to help them with their indigent program for children. Babs France who has been a volunteer for Garden of Innocence/San Diego is going to be the director of our new Garden of Innocence/Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona. Please keep us in your prayers that we can make this happen.
Hoping to return to Las Vegas this month as well. Today we talked to the Coroner of Clark county and he felt it was the time to come back and talk again. We are so looking forward to this.
February 2012
We traveled along Hwy 99 in California in February to meet with coroners in all the counties from Bakersfield to San Joaquin.
We had a wonderful time meeting coroners and telling them about the Garden and seeing if they will allow us to work with them in their indigent program.
Our goal is to have Garden of Innocence throughout California and then head to parts unknown.
Babs France has offered to lay the ground work in Phoenix, Arizona so we are looking forward to heading there in March.
In May we are heading to the east coast to meet the coroners in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey. We have volunteers wanting a Garden of Innocence in their area.
Please consider visiting our donation page so that we can be assured that this Garden will continue to grow so that no child leaves this earth without someone who cared.
If you know someone in the following counties that might be interested in helping us in their area, please ask them to contact us.
California Counties:
Kern, Fresno, King, Tulare, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Orange Counties
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