Organizations Filed Purposes:
POMC makes the difference through on-going emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy, and awareness. POMCs vision is to provide support and assistance to all survivors of homicide victims while working to create a world free of murder. POMC provides the on-going emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life" and to promote a healthy resolution. Not only does POMC help survivors deal with grief, but also helps with the criminal justice system.
All Other Program Service Accomplishments - POMC offers support and friendship to distressed parents and other persons who have experienced the death by murder of a loved one and to foster their physical and emotional health. To provide information about the grieving process and about the criminal justice system as it pertains to survivors. Communicate with and provide information to interested professionals in the fields of mental health, social work, community services, law enforcement, criminal justice education, medicine, religion, law, funeral services, etc. about the problems faced by survivors. Educate society at large and foster awareness of problems faced by homicide survivors.
National Conference Program - In 2019, hundreds of survivors gathered in Denver, CO for the 33rd Annual Parents of Murdered Children National Conference. The conference provides numerous workshops on traumatic grief, navigating the confusing maze of the judicial and investigative process as well as trainings for both survivors and professionals who serve them. The POMC National Conference is specifically designed for families and friends of those who have died by violence. POMC members come together for a weekend of workshops, motivational speakers, sharing and interacting. The Conference is open to all survivors, advocates, criminal justice professionals, legislators, victim service providers, educators and anyone interested in victim justice.
Grief Retreat Weekends - Started in 2017 for families to attend a weekend in a Cincinnati retreat area. POMC rents a house at which, over the course of the weekend, individuals spend time on grief writing exercises. These exercises allow families to begin to deal with their emotions, especially their anger and frustration. Individuals who have been traumatized by a murder in their family have a hard time finding a new normal without their loved one, and this weekend helps by giving them comfort and hope for their future.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Beverly J Warnock | Executive Dir. | 45 | $52,000 |
| Martha Lasher-Warner | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Connie Sheely | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Cathy Familathe | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Lori King | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Coleen Fernald Peterson | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Beckie Miller | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Margaret Kerouac | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Carolee Brooks Hildenbrandt | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Howard S Klerk Jr | President | 8 | $0 |
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