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Samantha Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
17 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

We've birthed what is called the Sunflower Foundation, which is in honor of Ashley.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

And it goes directly to our child and youth programming.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

And it's to support children who are accessing our services to do the fun stuff like camp or things that they may not be able to do.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

So it goes towards that, but then also seek therapeutic services and help families out who are engaged with us.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

And last year, we serviced 116 kids that are coming from homes where there's domestic violence.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

You had an event in honor of Ashley.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

It was her family's sort of a...

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

memorial celebration of life, if you will.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

It was a beautiful day.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

There was a hike for her over in Duntroon and all her family was there, friends, police services.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

It was quite something to see everyone come together to honor and celebrate her life.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

Because I will say that what was really shown that day is what a beautiful soul she was and how loved she was and how much people just want her memory to be lived through her children and how they want her

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

remembered.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

Yeah, no, absolutely.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

And that was one thing for us because these things happen and there's lots of families that are affected by it, but they have intentionally reached out in a way to build awareness so that

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

what happened to their Ashley doesn't happen again.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Running Man

This is... Like we said, a lot of families want to do good, right?