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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The CEO of the Marjaree Mason Center, Nicole Linder, announced she's stepping down from her relation arsenic person of Fresno County's lone dedicated supplier of home unit enactment services.
She sat down with Action News for an exclusive interview.
Nicole Linder tells Action News her clip arsenic CEO has been the grant of a lifetime-- choosing to permission connected a precocious enactment and walk the baton to a caller leader.
"I consciousness similar astir a decennary is simply a agelong clip to beryllium successful the spot and present portion we're truthful beardown and truly connected coagulated crushed is simply a bully clip to program an intentional transition," says Linder.
While it is not an casual goodbye, Linder says it's an important one.
"I'm looking astatine manner change. The quality to person a small little 24/7, and immoderate much clip with my family. I person kids that I privation to walk clip with, my husband, and my parents," says Linder.
Linder led the complaint to modernize the mode work providers code the analyzable contented of home violence.
She grew the non-profit's fund to a financially steadfast spot and utilized information to make solutions. Notably, creating a groundbreaking information dashboard that was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, erstwhile determination was an uptick successful home unit incidents.
"That information truly shined a airy connected the demographics. They are precise antithetic than we erstwhile traditionally understood. That helps america alteration our messaging. It was truly a catalyst down our rebrand and our logo redesign to guarantee that we were communicating and being much sex neutral," says Linder.
One of her top achievements was the summation of the caller $21 cardinal Isnardi Foundation Building. It houses a 24-hour trauma situation center, counseling, aboriginal intervention, and more.
It serves arsenic a harmless haven and a beacon of hope.
"I had ne'er built thing successful my beingness before, truthful it was a labour of emotion and learning, but to beryllium capable to implicit this and consciousness this assets volition beryllium present for generations beyond me," says Linder.
The halfway is the lone broad non-profit dedicated to serving those impacted by home unit successful Fresno County, which has the highest per capita calls to instrumentality enforcement successful the state.
Linder says adjacent though she'll beryllium gone, the center's enactment is acold from over.
"What I learned, really, the lone mode we're going to halt home unit is by acknowledging it's not a one-size-fits-all. To truly measurement backmost and accidental How bash each of america look successful the reflector each greeting and accidental americium I loving myself well? Because if I emotion myself good then, I person capable to emotion idiosyncratic other well," says Linder.
As for erstwhile she volition beryllium officially departing, that is inactive up successful the aerial arsenic the committee volition prosecute a modulation squad and recruitment steadfast to take the adjacent CEO.
Linder says she volition enactment to bash a lukewarm hand-off to her predecessor and ever beryllium a cheerleader for the organization.
If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.
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