Coeur d’Alene Casino SAVES Program Raises $1,722 for Domestic Violence Support and Prevention

Spokane, Wash. — The Spokane Chiefs are pleased to announce that the Coeur d’Alene Casino SAVES Program helped raise $1,722 during the 2019-20 season and will help fund programs aimed at eliminating domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse and stalking.

For the last ten years, Coeur d’Alene Casino has sponsored the SAVES Program during each Chiefs season, donating $1 per save made by Chiefs goaltenders to a variety of local non-profit organizations, including but not limited to STIX Diabetes Programs and Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners (SNAP).

This year’s donation will go to STOP Violence Against Indian Women, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s domestic violence support program. Started in 1997, the program provides services to Native Americans, teens & adults, or their significant others living on the Coeur d’ Alene Reservation who have been or who are presently victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, stalking, or bullying.

The program has received national acclaim, with founder Bernie LaSarte receiving the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in 2018. It provides critical and much-needed services for American Indian women who, according to LaSarte, are beaten three times more than women of any other race in this country.

Chiefs netminders made 1,722 saves over the course of the season, led by Lukas Parik’s 934, Campbell Arnold’s 481 and James Porter Jr.’s 215.

More information on the STOP Violence program is available here.