
The Honorable Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Salutes
WellSpring Center for Hope.
This Exceptional Service Award was presented to WellSpring Center For Hope for outstanding advocacy and leadership in the community.
WellSpring Center for Hope’s Executive Director Elouise Spencer and volunteer Robbin F. Jefferson were in attendance at a press conference headed by Dorothy Brown.
This gathering was to give recognition to and award domestic violence advocates like WellSpring Center for Hope, because October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and the Victims Witness Unit.
Present to
WellSpring Center For Hope
The 2009 Victim Service Recognition Award
The Victim Service Recognition Award honors remarkable people or organizations whose efforts and experiences best exemplify the most important function of the State’sAttorney’s Office the day-to-day efforts to pursue justice for victims of crime.
WellSpring was chosen for this distinguished award for having demonstrated great respect and compassion for victims of crime and whose efforts have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Awarded this day, April 27, 2009
STATE OF ILLINOIS
JUDY BAAR TOPINKA - STATE TREASURER
Congratulations
to
Sharon Rowe
WellSpring Center for Hope
on the
1st Annual Community Wide Domestic Violence
Prevention Resource Fair & Symposium on Domestic Violence
My heartfelt congratulations to you on your first annual event about domestic violence. Through your hard work and dedication you have made a positive difference throughout the community. Your commitment to providing counseling, adovcacy, information and referrals for battered women has made you a worthy recipient of this honor. May you continue to be successful in all of your future endeavors and may the future be bright and prosperous.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the State Treasurer to be affixed on this sixteenth day of October in the Year of our Lord, two thousand and four.
Judy Baar Topinka
Illinois State Treasurer
Dorothy Brown
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
presents
The First Annual
Above and Beyond Service Award
For a Lifetime Commitment of Service to
Domestic Violence Victims and Survivors
Elouise Spencer
Executive Director of WellSpring
Awarded this day, October 27, 2003
June 13, 2003
Ms. Elouise Spencer
Executive Director
WellSpring Center For Hope
P.O. Box 368800
Chicago, IL 60636
Dear Ms. Spencer:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for participating as a panelist at my 2003 Fatherhood Empowerment Summit and Resource Fair, held at Malcolm X College, Saturday, June 7th.
Your involvement helped raise the awareness of Domestic Violence. Your statement affirms your commitment to positive fatherhood issues and concerns. This was evident throughout your participation as a panelist and from the many positive responses I received from the attendees.
I look forward to our continuing efforts as we promote and support fatherhood.
Again, thank you!
Yours truly,
DANNY K. DAVIS
Member of Congress
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
Recognizes
WellSpring Center for Hope
For outstanding service and dedication to fulfilling the promise of dignity and respect, of services and support, and of justice for crime victims in Illinois.
Lisa Madigan
Illinois Attorney General
National Crime Victims' Rights Week - April 6 - 12, 2003
"Program Excellence Award"
Child Abuse Prevention Month 2003
Prevent Child Abuse Illinois
and
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Presented to
WellSpring Center for Hope
for program excellence which improved the well-being of children and families, prevents child abuse and exemplifies family-focused and community-based ideals and includes collaboration with other family service organizations.
March 25, 2003
Springfield, Illinois