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Thistle Hills Home After the Trauma of Trafficking, a Second Chance at Life for Chester County Women On the outskirts of Coatesville, a home filled with the promise and hope of new life awaits its first residents. Thistle Hills—a sister organization of the inspiring and highly successful Thistle Farms residential program that helps women who are survivors of human trafficking, prostitution, and addiction get a second chance at life—is now actively recruiting the initial two women who will live there. Eventually, it will be home to as many as four women at a time who are accepted into
Hope & New Life the two-year program that grew out of a partnership between the Episcopal Church of the Trinity, Coatesville, and the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania’s Anti-Human Trafficking Commission. The program, recognized as a 501c3 nonprofit by the Internal Revenue Service with its own board of directors, also has substantial community support, including a $323,000 award from the Chester County Community Development Block Grant program that made the purchase of the Thistle Hills house possible.
“God of hearth and home, maker of love
and laughter, make this a place for reflection and restoration, rest and renewal, a place where the life of Thistle Hills
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may find its strength. ishop B anieq D —rrez Du G at the Blessing of Thistle Hills ome H inayM : 12
CAMINOS | FALL 2021
