Haven House makes room for children of trauma

By Layton Ehmke
Homer Tribune

You never hear people talk about how much they love spending time in interrogation rooms, but they certainly sound nice, right?
The South Peninsula Haven House team didn’t think so either, so they did something about it.
Instead of offering a cold and intimidating police interrogation room at their advocacy center on Lake Street, the team at Haven House transformed their interrogation room into a comfortable space where response teams can interview child victims of abuse.
Peg Coleman, director of the Haven House, said the room that was designed by Team Haven House was meant to be calming and non-intrusive to the children who must be promptly and properly interviewed.
Instead of cold steel tables and a bare concrete floor, the new room at the Haven has big comfy chairs, smooth yellow walls and plenty of colorful art.
Specifically, a painting on loan by