Mar 23

Camp Erin

This a Camp for children and teens who are grieving and struggling with loss. After the boys Charlie and Braden Powell were taken from this world I attended this camp, there I was able to meet other kids my age that were dealing with the same feelings. At younger ages its easy to feel alone when coping with loss and Camp Erin provides a friendly, caring and open atmosphere that allows kids to feel safe talking about these feelings.

For more information about Camp Erin check out this link: https://washington.providence.org/services-directory/services/c/camp-erin

Mar 23

COVID-19

We sincerely hope all of our readers and supporters are staying safe and feeling well! For more information on Covid-19 you can view this web page: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html

Sincerely,

The Susan Cox Powell Foundation

Mar 19

Family Support Center of South Sound

“Working together to strengthen all families”

fscss

(360) 754-9297

A non-profit multi-service agency located in Olympia, founded in 1992 to provide families and survivors of violence with coordinated, supportive services in one centralized location. http://fscss.org/

Mar 18

YWCA Kitsap County

Bremerton, WA

RED Flags for Domestic Abuse:

  • History of Abusive behavior.
  • Hurts or threatens animals or personal property.
  • Intimidates you with knives or guns.
  • Pushing, Hitting, Slapping or threatening you in any way.

1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Help is out there!

24 hr. Hotline for Kitsap county 1-800-500-5513

Mar 18

DAWN rising for domestic peace.

A resource that helps provide men and women in domestic violence situations with the following:

  • Legal Advocacy ; Divorce, and parenting plans.
  • Mental health care, psychologists available for those seeking mental health.
  • Mobile and Community help in South King County.
About

Nov 14

Ways to Help: Gib’s Kids

Courtesy of Gib’s Kids Facebook page; used by permission

As we were thinking about and planning for the upcoming tenth anniversary of Susan’s disappearance, we came across a wonderful organization called Gib’s Kids. Susan sometimes had to ask friends for food to feed her boys, since her husband Josh was so controlling with money (and everything else) She would have loved spreading the word about and helping this group. It is such a worthy cause and we encourage you to donate if you can and to spread the word so others can donate, either with non-perishable food dropped off at the school or with an online financial donation.

Gib’s Kids background:

“Three years ago, we discovered that our friend, Krista Gibbons, a teacher at West Jordan Middle School (WJMS), was self-funding a pantry to help her students. With no federal funding for breakfast at West Jordan Middle School, up to 40 students a day from food-insecure families were (and are) coming to class hungry.

“She saw the brilliance of her students, and realized that with a little help, they would have the energy to do their best at school each day. These kids are exceptionally vulnerable to gang recruitment, as the main draw is stability with food and clothing for them and their families; once you’re in, the stats are low that kids get out.

“We worked with Krista, West Jordan Middle School, and the Jordan Education Foundation to establish the Lion’s Pantry in 2017. Since then, we’ve seen students say no to gangs and look out for fellow-students, because they know that someone else cares.”

See these links for more information:

Deseret News

West Jordan Journal

KSL.com

Gib’s Kids Facebook Page

Food Donation Drop-Off Information:

West Jordan Middle School, 7550 S Redwood Rd, West Jordan, UT 84084
Hours: Mon-Fri 7-3pm, CLOSED on Saturday and Sunday.

Parking: As the West Jordan Middle School parking lot is currently under renovation, visitor parking is in the church parking lot directly across from the school.

Instructions: All visitors must visit the Main Office. Food donations will be collected in a donation box in the Main Office.

Items Needed:

Non-perishable snack, lunchbox, and/or school friendly items. Examples: Granola Bars, non-perishable tuna snack packs, snack-size applesauce or fruit cups, snack-size pudding, beef jerky sticks, crackers, water-bottles, Gatorade, Pop-tarts, etc.

Two Options for Cash Donation:

1. Donate Directly on Venmo: @GibsKids

2. To receive a letter for tax deductible donations, please donate by mailing in a check:

• Go to www.jordaneducationfoundation.org, click on the top ribbon “JEF Forms”, and download/print the
JEF Contribution Form (https://www.jordaneducationfoundation.org/jef-forms).

• Fill out the Jordan Education Foundation Contribution form. Make sure to designate the funds to the
“Lion’s Pantry” on the Designated School/Department line.

• Include Contribution form with check and mail to:
Jordan School District
7387 S. Campus View Drive
West Jordan, Utah, 84084

Additional Information:

• 49.8% of K-12 public school students at West Jordan Middle participate in the National School Lunch Program
(NSLP).
• To qualify for free lunch, children’s family income must be under $15,171 in 2015 (below 130% of the poverty line). 41.6% of students at West Jordan Middle receive free lunch.
• To qualify for reduced lunch, children’s family income must be below $21,590 annual income in 2015 (185% of the poverty line). 8.1% of students at West Jordan Middle receive reduced lunch. (http://publicschools.startclass.com/l/92592/West-Jordan-Middle)

  • The Lion’s Pantry currently supports 30-40 students a day, on a needs basis. Student can come anonymously, no questions asked. Students support each other, and a school culture of mutual support is developing.
  • Some students come in the morning without having eaten since they left school the night before, or even over the weekend. For this reason, the Lion’s Pantry in Krista Gibbon’s classroom aims to keep largely non-perishable, packaged food on hand as well as basic school supplies for students from homes struggling financially.

Nov 13

Remembering Susan: Ten Years Later

On Friday, December 6, Susan Cox Powell will have been missing for ten long years.

Two different events will take place on this day to honor and remember Susan:

In Washington:

There will be a vigil at the Angel of Hope statue on the hill above Charlie and Braden Powell’s grave. This will take place at Woodbine Cemetery at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Woodbine Cemetery, 2323 9th St SW  Puyallup, WA

Time: 7:00 p.m.

In Utah:

We will be holding a Panel Discussion, Q & A , memories by local journalists who covered Susan’s story, and we will hear from Domestic Violence advocates as well as survivors of domestic violence. This event will be FREE to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event starts at 7:00 p.m.

The panel moderator and host of the event will be Dave Cawley, who created the Cold Podcast. We are so grateful to Dave for all he’s done to accurately tell Susan’s story in such detail, bringing it to many thousands of people across the world.

Panelists, journalists and guests will include:

Jennifer Graves, Susan’s sister-in-law

Nate Carlisle, Salt Lake Tribune

Chris Jones, KUTV-2 News

Ben Winslow, FOX 13 News

Alex Cabrero, KSL News

Joan Shippen, Chainbreakers

Debbie Caldwell, Susan’s close friend and child care provider

Kiirsi Hellewell, Susan’s close friend

 

Location:

Hunter Junior High 

6131 W 3785 S, West Valley City, Utah 

Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Please join us to honor and remember Susan and her sons at this look back at the last 10 years, and also to look forward to the future to help others in domestic violence/abuse relationships to get out, get help and get hope.

 

Nov 13

Rock Painting for Susan

On Monday, December 2, we will be meeting at the Taylorsville Library for a rock-painting activity. This will be a very family-friendly, informal gathering, and we’d love to have you join us. Bring your family, friends, co-workers and drop in at any point during the evening.

Time: 5:00-8:30 p.m. (come anytime and stay as long as you like, until 8:30pm)

Location: Taylorsville Library

4870 South 2700 West
Salt Lake City, Utah

Painting and hiding rocks for other people to find is a fun and popular activity across the world. (See this link for more information about this fun hobby.) Susan’s face and name have gone across the world in the last 10 years, and we wanted to bring more awareness and new eyes to her story through painting and hiding these rocks. We will be giving these rocks out at another event to remember Susan later that week.

Apr 24

The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell on Oxygen

There is a New Oxygen Special series “The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell” that will air on May 4th and 5th at 7pm.     Susan’s Mother, Sister Denise, Jennifer Graves and Myself just returned from doing interviews in New York to help with promos for the upcoming Special.

Dr Oz, Judy, Chuck, Denise and Stephanie Bower Oxygen Investigative Reporter

There will also be a special Dr. Oz show on Friday the 3rd of May.   A big thank you to Dr. Oz who is always concerned for the health and welfare of others.  It was a pleasure to meet him and be part of his show.

The Texas Crew and Oxygen Channel has completed over 2 years of detailed investigation and was able to review and integrate newly released information  into their in-depth report.  The report includes information and video never before available to anyone other than the police investigators.    Regardless of how closely you have followed the case, this detailed report will revel information that is new and  incredibly disturbing, yet important for anyone dealing with domestic violence issues.

I would like to thank the Oxygen Channel and the Texas Crew for their hard work and providing us this information.  I knew that some of this information was out there but I had no desire to  sift through the pile of what I suspected would have been very disturbing material, possibly beyond my ability to deal with.  So I am very grateful for their willingness to do this heavy lifting, to bring out this important but disturbing information.

On a personal note I would like to clarify that  Officially the State of Utah “Presumes Susan is deceased”after 6 years of being missing  but she has not been declared dead.    However we, her parents, can not give up hope  our daughter will be found,  and although I understand it is an extreme long shot, I choose to keep hoping the “presumption” of the state is wrong.

When should a parent give up on their child?   I don’t see any reason to give up that hope until there is physical proof.

Chuck Cox.

Apr 24

The Cold Podcasts by David Cawley

Dave Cawley did a mountain of work to put together his Cold Podcast.   I would like to thank him for his work.   It is amazing the people he was able to interview, and information he was able to find.   I took some notes and hope to contact some the people he interviewed.   I learned some new things, but mostly I liked his attention to detail.   His work on the time line, and how he followed up on witnesses and found new people is very helpful.    There were a  few items I heard that I felt were wrong, but then again,  that was based on what the Police told me, my knowledge and people I talked to.   Dave talked with people I never talked to  which accounts for most of the differences.   All in all I think he did an excellent job.   Of course having lived it myself, I would have a different perspective.   People’s memories can change over time, new evidence can be discovered, evidence can be lost or misinterpreted, so it is natural that there are differences.

Unfortunately those who know what really  happened are all gone.   I  that don’t think they would ever have admitted what happened anyway.   I personally wouldn’t have believed them with out proof.

I am thankful that Dave took on the project and did such a great job.   I enjoyed listening to the pod casts and learned from them.   I would also like to thank all those that agreed to be interviewed.    There has been a renewed interest in the case since the Cold Podcast, and I have some new leads to follow-up on.   So thank you Dave, and I enjoyed your guitar playing.

I especially liked your weekly encouragement to people to get help if they are experiencing  domestic violence.  I am sure your work has helped many people.

I hope that everyone that listens to the Cold Pod Cast can use the things you discuss to look in the mirror and make changes in their own lives as needed.   We all need to be careful with our words and actions, to be supportive of those we love and interact with in our lives.

So once again Thank You Dave for your hard work.

Chuck Cox