The Rochon Family Foundation

The Rochon Family Foundation is dedicated to protecting women from the horror of sexual violence.

In the United States

During the 1990s, John Rochon began to provide corporate support for the effort to protect women from sexual violence and to educate the public about the scope of this terrible epidemic. 

Among other efforts, Mr. Rochon arranged for the sponsorship of seminars at Loyola University that brought experts from across the United States to share ideas about sexual violence and how to prevent it.  He then drew up an idea for a television documentary about sexual violence and arranged for its sponsorship, production and airing over the Public Broadcasting System. 

In 2004, Mr. Rochon established the Rochon Family Foundation, as a vehicle for efforts to educate the public about the growing plague of sexual violence against women and to support those who are working with victims, law enforcement authorities and in educating the public.  The Foundation is a non-profit corporation. The foundation's Director is Lauren Rochon Eidsvig.

The Foundation has provided support for the work of the Turning Point, the Rape Crisis Center of Collin County (Texas), in the Dallas area where the Foundation is headquartered.  The Turning Point serves victims of sexual violence with a full range of services, including counseling and work with law enforcement agencies, as well as public education and prevention programs.

To learn more about the work of the Turning Point, click here.

Overseas

For more than a decade, Mr. Rochon and his family have provided support for Future Vision Ministries (FVM), an international, non-profit charitable organization that runs community-based programs in Canada and in central Africa.

In Malawi, Africa, FVM operates a remarkable project called the Matunkha Village Centre. This place of healing, teaching and mercy serves the most vulnerable and needy among that region’s population, particularly those who face the greatest imaginable burdens in an impoverished land:  orphaned children living in rural areas who suffer from the ravages of AIDS. 

The Centre brings hope in the form of education, health care, HIV/AIDS awareness training, nutrition, shelter, vocational training, counseling and compassion to 12,000 people in 60 surrounding villages.  Among those served are young women and girls who have been victimized not only by AIDS, but by sexual violence and abuse. 

In Canada, FVM offers a range of community-based services through Popcorn House in Cambridge, Ontario.  Since 1992, this project has offered camps, classes, counseling and other services for women, children and families.

To learn more about the fine work being done by Future Vision Ministries, please click here.