About CarlLa Horton
CarlLa Horton
Executive Director
Hope's Door
CarlLa Horton was appointed executive director of Hope’s Door (formerly the Northern Westchester Shelter) in 1997, three years after receiving her graduate degree from the School of Business and Public Administration at Bernard Baruch College where she graduated first in her executive MPA class.
During her tenure with Hope’s Door,
- agency revenue has grown by 316%;
- victims served increased by 246%; and
- units of service quadrupled.
She initiated
- the Victim Impact Panel;
- the Survivors Law Project, a collaboration with Victims Assistance Services;
- the Love Shouldn't Hurt teen dating abuse program;
- oversaw the licensing and renovation of a new shelter residence; and
- in 2005, secured pilot project funding to establish Esperanza Para La Victima Latina de Abuso (Hope for Latina Victims of Abuse), which is now supported on an annual basis by the County of Westchester.
Ms. Horton serves on the Advisory Committee to the New York State Senate Task Force on Domestic Violence, the Westchester County Domestic Violence Council where she chairs the Human Face of Domestic Violence subcommittee, the Westchester Women’s Agenda, and the Legislative Committee of the NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence, among other activist work.
Former work includes serving as the executive director of an Independent Living Center for persons with disabilities; helping to found Rosasharon, the first shelter in Los Angeles for battered women and children; and fundraising and organizing campaigns for the National Organization for Women, Women Office Workers, the National Women’s Committee of the J. P. Stevens Boycott and the National Women’s Political Caucus ERA Fund, among others.
In 2005, the Zonta Club of Westchester named Ms. Horton their Woman of the Year and described her as “a world-class community activist who has dedicated her career to the support of women in need.”
In 2008, she accepted the Community Advocate of the Year award from the Avon Foundation.
This page last updated January 17, 2011 20:20 .