One Place of Onslow County has officially begun construction on its new $21 million home following a celebration on Thursday morning to commemorate the accomplishment. The group has been designing One Place’s future new home for five years, and the building will begin on Thursday, with a projected opening date of spring 2025.
According to a press statement put out by One Place on Wednesday, the trauma-informed facility will function as a holistic community centre, including learning space for the early care and education community and community partners, as well as therapeutic respite space for child abuse victims and their families.
“This project began with a simple question: how can the organisation and its services be sustainable in the future for all of us?” stated One Place Chief Executive Officer Dawn Rochelle in a press statement. “Our community is expanding. With expansion comes a greater need for services and a shared obligation to develop strategic solutions.”
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According to the release, expanding One Place will allow them to reduce wait times for critical, time-sensitive evaluations in the Child Advocacy Centre, double the number of children receiving services, provide forensic medical exams to 100% of child abuse and neglect victims, and provide mental health services to child victims.
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“The initial belief and investment in this project by the SECU Foundation and the North Carolina General Assembly launched the project from concept to where we are today,” One Place Chief Advancement Officer Ann Marie Raymond stated in a press release. The SECU Foundation also provided a $2 million challenge grant to One Place to fund the project, now known as the SECU Hope Centre.
In addition, the city of Jacksonville gave the project $1 million in August of this year. According to the statement, Representative Phil Shepard and Senator Michael Lazzara spearheaded efforts to get an extra $3.5 million from the North Carolina General Assembly in 2023.
