Home safe home

Jordan Seff, Kristen Cannon, Vanessa Ames, Courtney Harmon, Stephanie von Stein Schusterman and Mark Schusterman supported Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (AVDA) at the Home Safe Home gala. The event brought more than 270 guests to The Post Oak Hotel and raised a record-breaking $725,000 for survivors of domestic violence, including funding legal representation and trauma counseling. This year’s event, chaired by Caroline and Matthew Monday and Julia and John Stallcup, began with a cocktail hour with live music. The highlight of the program was the presentation of the Heart of Houston Award to Mark Russell, former board chair and a current AVDA board member. Russell has been an advocate for domestic-abuse prevention after losing his niece to intimate partner violence in 2008. The program concluded with the house lights lowered and candles lit for all guests to “be the light” that brings domestic violence out of the shadows. 

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