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Deborah's Place marks 30 years fighting for homeless women

Deborah's place first began in 1985 when 8-10 women came together to make an emergency shelter on the Northside of Chicago called Deborah's place. The women named the group after the Old Testament story of a women named Deborah who raised an army of 10,000 soliders to free her oppressed people. Within a year after 1985 Deborah's place grew due to a Community Emergency Shelter Organization activist named Patricia "Patty" Crowley. Patty and other founding mothers created a safe heaven at Conception Church where homeless women could sleep without the danger of staying at shelters with me. From this they created an organization that moved into a larger space and could proved useful services and programs to homeless women. According to CEO, Audrey Thomas, Deborah's Place also tries to change the stigma around homeless women and bring more attention to this "isolated/forgotten" population. and has helped over 4.000 women with employment training, access to education and healthcare, case management, permanent, interim and subsidized community-based housing offered by the organization,and women with severe mental illnesses.

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Audrey Thomas and Kathy Booton Wilson, Deborah's Place leaders

Audrey Thomas and Kathy Booton are leaders at Deborah's Place in a interview talking about their own personal lives and how the women of Deborah's place effected their lives.

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Deborah's Place hosts fundraiser/award ceremony

Open Door fundraiser/award presentation took place on June 10th, 2012 where Deborah's place raised over 100.000. Award recipients included Linda Palm, who received the Founders Award, and the Sammons Financial Group, who received the Philanthropic Partner Group.