1st Source Bank’s John Elliott, presents a $5K grant to Beaman Home’s Board President Denny Cripe and vice president Don Laughlin. (Photo provided)

WARSAW — The Pfleiderer Charitable Trust recently awarded the Beaman Home Emergency Shelter and Outreach Center a $5,000 grant for their campaign to build their new facility on North Parker Street.

The Beaman Home’s administrative staff and outreach advocates have moved into the recently remodeled outreach center and are now focusing on the two-story emergency shelter addition at that site that will replace the existing shelter they have simply outgrown elsewhere in Warsaw.

Beaman Home’s dedicated advocates have served victims of domestic violence in Kosciusko, Marshall and Fulton Counties for 30 years. The new campus, when completed, will represent an innovative healing approach allowing clients to participate in on-going counseling and training that targets reduction of victims’ repeated involvement with domestic violence abusers and elimination of the generational cycle of domestic violence so prevalent in abused families.

The Pfleiderer Charitable Trust, established by Esther Pfleiderer, who was born and raised in Warsaw. She taught math in the Warsaw School System for 39 years and was very active in the community serving on the boards of the Salvation Army, Warsaw Community Public Library, Kosciusko County Community Foundation, Kosciusko County Historical Society and the ministries of the First Presbyterian Church. In 1982, she was recognized as Warsaw’s Woman of the Year.

Grant applications are available from 1st Source Bank Personal Asset Management Group offices at 120 S. Lake St., Warsaw. The next deadline for grant applications is Sept. 30. For more information, contact John Elliott at (574) 268-1207.