Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina has announced it is welcoming internationally recognized trauma-informed care expert and survivor Tonier Cain as the guest speaker for its 40th anniversary Hope Luncheon. The event will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, lakeside at the award-winning Chetola Resort. Individual tickets are $40, or a table of eight may be purchased for $400. This is the agency’s largest annual fundraiser, and guests will be encouraged to give generously to reach their goal of $100,000.
Asking Tonier Cain to speak at the annual luncheon wasn’t just happenstance. Both executive director Tina B. Krause and chief development director Todd Carter were so profoundly impacted by Ms. Cain when she spoke at the 2016 State of the Child conference at Boone United Methodist Church that they immediately went to work changing the way Hospitality House operated and administered its programs and services. That conference set the tone for what would become the Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative.
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