The Jennifer Beach Foundation is hosting a pair of fundraiser events in August. The first is at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Tacoma Rainiers game in Tacoma and is $15 per person, which includes reserved seats and a meal, while the second, the Scramble for Safe Families charity golf tournament, is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at Washington National Golf Club in Auburn.

A four-person scramble is $120 per person or $480 for a four-person team.

The foundation, started by Covington resident Keith Beach, is a local non-profit direct service agency serving families affected by child abuse and domestic violence.

To allow the Jennifer Beach Foundation to provide services and classes free of charge to clients, it will host two fundraising events in the near future. Its name sake Jennifer Beach was a high school student who befriended a little girl that had suffered abusive behavior at the hands of a parent.

Jennifer wrote a poem “Bruised Inside & Out,” from the perspective of this little girl she met.

Soon after the poem was written Jennifer was killed in a car accident.

The poem has helped others to feel the pain of those affected by child abuse and domestic violence. In honor of Jennifer’s passion for helping others her family started the Jennifer Beach Foundation.

Our mission is to provide practical tools tovictims to help them get to a safer, healthier place in life.The Jennifer Beach Foundation provides services to adults, teens, and children.

Programs include Hope & Power, a financial literacy program for adult survivors that helps individuals restore self-esteem and self-confidence while learning to better manage their resources.

Teen dating violence education provides awareness and safety skills for this at-risk group. Kid’s Club is a program designed to help children that have been raised in a domestic violence environment learn there is healthier behavior thanto hurt someone when they get angry or frustrated.

The foundation also provides advocacy-based counseling and emergency funding for shelter, clothing, food, transportation assistance, utilities, etc.For more information log onto the foundation’s website at www.jnbfoundation.org.

To purchase tickets for the baseball game or register for the golf tournament please call our office at 253-833-5366 or email info@jnbfoundaiton.org