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Please call 703.777.6552 to coordinate delivery of Wish List items.
For all other donations, call 703-771-8173.

Shelter/Domestic Violence Services

(please do not donate travel-size items!)

Routinely Needed Items

(Please provide new items!)

  • Gift cards/certificates ($10 to $50 amounts—gas, Target, Wal-Mart, other department stores, Ben Franklins, Michaels, movie theaters, fast food, grocery stores, auto repairs)
  • phone cards (small $ amounts)—30 to 60 minutes
  • International phone cards
  • Pillows
  • Sippy cups
  • alarm clocks
  • silverware sets
  • dish sets (e.g. Corelle)
  • kitchen utensils
  • pots and pans
  • glasses
  • bed and bath linens (towels, twin sheet sets, blankets)
  • Mattress Pads (twin size)
  • Crib Sheets (travel size not full size)
  • Light bulbs (60 watt, tin can/recessed lightbulbs, Compact Florescent)
  • batteries (9 volt, AA, AAA, C, D)
  • Contact Lens Solution
  • bras
  • sweatsuits
  • journals
  • Books printed in foreign languages
  • DVDs (violence-free)
  • Umbrellas
  • over-the-counter medications for adults and children

Sexual Assault Services

  • New Sweat Pants—all sizes, including childrens
  • New Sweat Shirts—all sizes, including childrens
  • New Underwear—all sizes, including childrens
  • New Socks (thick, warm kind)
  • New T-shirts—all sizes, including childrens
  • Mouthwash
Books
  • "The Courage to Heal"
  • "The Sexual Healing Journey"
  • "Family Fallout"
  • "Family Secrets"
  • "Reviving Ophelia"
  • "Children and Trauma"
  • "Coping with Kids"
  • "Helping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse"
  • "How to Survive the Sexual Abuse of Your Child"
  • "Mother's Book: How to Survive the Molestation of Your Child"
  • "No More Secrets; Protecting Your Child from Sexual Assault"
  • "The Safe Child Book"
  • "The Angry Book"

Youth and Children's Needs

Parenting Books

  • "Becoming the Parent You Want to Be"
  • "Mom's House, Dad's House"
  • "How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk"
  • "Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce"
  • "Families Apart"
  • "The Divorce Workbook"
  • "Changing Families"
  • "KIDSTRESS"
  • "Kids' Skills" by Ben Furman
Books parents should read with their kids
  • "At Daddy's on Saturdays"
  • "Good-bye Daddy"
Books for children
  • "I Like Me"
  • "I Like Who I Am and it Shows"
  • "Oh the Places You'll Go"
  • "Just Because I Am"
  • "Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse"
  • "What Makes Me Happy"
Routinely Needed Items
  • Canvas Tote Bags
  • Gift Cards (Target, Giant, Walmart, Michaels)
  • children's movies (non-violent)
  • educational games & toys
  • set of encyclopedias (Child Craft)
  • free passes to events, classes, etc.
  • stereo (with CD player)
  • children's music CDs
  • camera and film
  • arts and crafts material (glue, glitter glue pens, beads, Playdough, pom poms, paper lunch bags, glitter, string, wrapping paper/ribbon, fabric paint, fabric paint markers, tachy blue, stidker foam shapes and letters, stamp pads, stickers)
  • paint (all colors, large bottles preferred)
  • paint brushes
  • poster board and paper
  • large rolls of drawing paper
  • developmentally appropriate toys (infants through age 16)
  • interactive toys (e.g. etch-a-sketch, keyboard, twister, play-dough)
  • 8 X 11 Picture Frames

Education & Prevention/Teen Violence Prevention Program

  • PA system with microphone
  • Starbucks Gift Certificates
  • fast food restaurant gift certificates
  • TV/VCR combo
  • large professional display board
  • portable flip chart w/carry case

Resourceful Woman Thrift Shop

Due to the recent toy recalls we will not be accepting any toys.

  • All new or used clothing and household items (please call before bringing anything that cannot be carried in or out by one person)
  • Books
  • Jewelry
  • cleaning supplies (windex, febreeze, paper towels)
  • 8' fluorescent tubes
  • toiletries (toilet paper, hand soap, etc.)
  • new and used shopping bags (logos do not matter)
  • trash bags

Community Services - General

  • full-spectrum light bulbs & 4' fluorescent tubes
  • window treatments
  • office plants
  • area rugs
  • podium (for training room)

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