{"id":4451,"date":"2016-11-02T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2016-11-01T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:19:31","slug":"abbys-house-welcomes-aislinn-addington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/abbys-house-welcomes-aislinn-addington\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby\u2019s House welcomes Aislinn Addington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/11\/Abbys-house-color-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"abbys-house-color\" width=\"504\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Abbys-house-color-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Abbys-house-color-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/11\/Abbys-house-color-1024x476.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>By: Paige Scofield\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Abby\u2019s House has recently hired a new director, Aislinn Addington, Ph.D. Addington\u2019s first day of work started on Oct. 3. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic so far, it\u2019s been great,\u201d she said smiling.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming director at Abby\u2019s House, Addington received her undergraduate degree from Pacific Lutheran University where she double majored in political science and sociology. She then received her Ph.D and Masters in Sociology from the University of Kansas. After her college education, she taught sociology at Pacific Lutheran University and University of Kansas. \u201cI taught with specialities in women gender sexuality and religion and secularity. I also did some non-profit work in arts education for young people with disabilities,\u201d Addington explained.<\/p>\n<p>As the new director of Abby\u2019s House, Addington\u2019s job entails many different things. \u201cOn a day to day basis, there are 16 trained advocates that are students here, I manage them, and we as a group have a meeting once a week. We put on programs like Take Back the Night that happened earlier this week,\u201d she said, \u201cthe director of Abby\u2019s House is a confidential position, so if someone comes in and has a situation they want to talk to someone about confidentially, I\u2019m here for that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abby\u2019s House is a resource and referral center for everyone. Their job is to help those in need find the services that they need. \u201cI think of us kind of as the hub of a wheel. We have a lot of information here, both in terms of literature, resources and the 16 student advocates. If people come in with questions or concerns about any number of things \u2026 we have information to share, we have other resources on campus, as well as off campus,\u201d she said, \u201ccome here and find what you need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journalcampuslife@mail.wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Paige Scofield Campus Life Editor Abby\u2019s House has recently hired a new director, Aislinn Addington, Ph.D. Addington\u2019s first day of work started on Oct. 3. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic so far, it\u2019s been great,\u201d she said smiling. Before becoming director at Abby\u2019s House, Addington received her undergraduate degree from Pacific Lutheran University where she double majored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}