April 2005 - Sexual Assault Awareness
Month Calendar of Events
This page was updated on April 15, 2005.
Book Store Displays - All of April
Survivor Stories: Video and
Discussion - All of April
Global and Local Responses to Human Trafficking:
Lessons on prevention and identification and assistance to victims
-April 23rd
Immigration and Domestic violence/Sexual Assault Training
- April 25, 2005
Wounded Heart Workshop - April 25,
2005
Understanding Adult Sexual
Assault: Supporting Survivors, Healing Communities - April 25, 2005
Flowers for Victims - April 26, 2005
Clothesline Project - April
26, 2005
Take Back the Night March and Rally
- April 28, 2005
Legislators Breakfast and Open House
- April 29, 2005
5 College Clothesline Project
- April 29, 2005
Sexual Assault Awareness Month/Child
Abuse Prevention Month Seminar - April 29, 2005
The Clothesline Project - April 30, 2005
“It’s Time to START, so It Can STOP!”
- April 30, 2005
Survivor Stories: Video and
Discussion - All of April
The"Survivor Storeis" video will be shown on local
cable ccess stations throughout BARCC's service area complete with discussion
guide and resource information which will also be available on our web
site. This powerful 30-minute video is the result of a collaboration between
a number of local colleges and universities, BARCC, the Victims Rights
Law Center, and other Survivor Services. It follows both the survivor
and perpetrator of an acquaintance rape before and after the assault.
Location:
Date: Throughout April
Time:
Sponsor: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
Contact: Sarah Dawgert
Website: www.barcc.org
Book Store Displays - All of April
Book displays with resource and Sexual Assault Awareness
Month information.
Participating libraries: Tyngsborough, Billerica, Carlisle,
Chelmsford, Groton, Littleton, Wilmington and Lowell.
Within Lowell: Barnes and Noble, MCC and UMass Book stores
Sponsors: Rape Crisis Services of Greater Lowell
Contact: Michelle Pendergast
Phone: 978.452.7721
Fax: 978.458.2822
Email: michellep@rcsgl.org
Website: www.rcsgl.org
Global and Local Responses
to Human Trafficking: Lessons on prevention and identification and assistance
to victims -April 23rd
Event: A three-part conference and training on human trafficking. There
will be a three-tract panel schedule:
Tract 1: Legal Assistance for Victims of Trafficking
Tract 2: Prevention and Assistance to Victims of Trafficking
Tract 3: Engaging Community and Students in the Fight Against Trafficking
Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40 AM Opening Remarks
9:45 - 11: 15 AM Panel Discussions: Part 1
11:30 -1:00 PM Panel Discussions: Panel II
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 PM Panel Discussions: Panel III
3:45 - 5:15 PM Panel Discussions: Panel IV
Legal Assistance for Victims of Trafficking:
Processing T and U Visas for Victims of Trafficking
Benefits for Victims of Trafficking
Basics of Immigration Law
Human Trafficking Legislation: National and International laws
Location:
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Time: 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM
Cost: $20 for students, $40 for non-students. Includes materials, breakfast,
and lunch.
Understanding Adult Sexual Assault:
Supporting Survivors, Healing Communities - April 25, 2005
Full day training for professionals who want to elarn how
to better support survivors of rape and sexual assault
Location:
Riesman Lecture Hall
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA
Date: April 25, 2005
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sponsors: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Center fo Violence Prevention
and Recovery at Beth Israel
Contact: Sarah Dawgert Phone: 617.492.8306 ext. 33
Contact: Lisa Hartwick Phone: 617.667.3458 Email: lhartwic@BIDMC.harvard.edu
Website: www.barcc.org
Wounded Heart Workshop - April 25, 2005
Create a healing heart to add to teh exhibit of "healing
the Wounded Heart" or to keep as a reminder of your own journey to
health and wholeness. Healing the Wounded Heart is an art exhibit of wooden
hearts created by survivors os sexual violence. Heartsa dn suppplies will
be provided free of charge.
Location: Bangs Communiy Center, UMASS Amherst
Date: April 25, 2005
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Phone: 413.545.0883
Immigration and Domestic violence/Sexual
Assault Training - April 25, 2005
The Immigrant Legal Access and Support Collaborative (ILASC)will
be hosting an immigration and domestic violence/sexual assault training.
Location: International Institute of Boston3rd floor conference room
Date:April 25th
Time: 1:30 to 5:00
C ontact Aura Sanchez Garfunkel
Phone:617-884-9799 ext 133
Email: aura@harborcov.org
Flowers for Victims - April 26, 2005
Womansplace Crisis Center welcomes you to join us for our Annual "Flowers
for Victims" speak out, honoring victims and survivors of Sexual
Assault and Domestic Violence. Come join us as we unite with our community
to take a stand against violence.
Location: Brockton District Court House steps
Time: 12 p.m.
For more information call Womansplace at (508) 588-8255.
Clothesline Project - April
26, 2005
T-Shirts created by survivors of rape and sexual assault
are displayed. Counselors will be onsite.
Locatin:
UMass Lowell, McGauvran Student Center
Wilder Street
Lowell, MA
Date: April 26, 2005
Time: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Sponsor: Rape Crisis Services of Greater Lowell
Contact: Michelle Pendergast
Phone: 978.452.7721
Fax: 978.458.2822
Email: michellep@rcsgl.org
Website: www.rcsgl.org
Take Back the Night March and Rally -
April 28, 2005
Location: Lawn of the Student Union Building, UMASS Amherst
Date: April 28, 2005
Time: 7 p.m.
Sponsors: VOX Students for Choice
Legislators breakfast and open house
- April 29, 2005
Location:
Independence House
160 Bassett Lane
Hyannis, MA
Date: April 29, 2005
Time: 8 a.m.
Contact: Priscilla Adams
Phone: 508.771.6507
ihrape@indhouse.net
5 College
Clothesline Project - April 29, 2005
The 5 College Clothesline Project is a display of t-shirts
created by survivors of sexual violence and hate crimes and their loved
ones, friends and alleis.
Location: Pond Lawn, UMASS Amherst
Date: April 29, 2005
Phone: 413.545.0883
Sexual Assault Awareness Month/Child Abuse Prevention
Month Seminar - April 29, 2005
The MDPH Sexual Assault Prevention and Survivor Services and Sexual Assault
Nurse Examiner Program are pleased to host a web seminar in recognition
of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month. This
web seminar is sponsored by CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control, CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office
of Women's Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and
the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Topic: The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health
and Well-Being
Date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern
Place: DPH Public Health Conference Room, 250 Washington Street, 2nd floor
Featured Speaker: Vincent Felitti, MD, Department of Preventive Medicine,
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Description: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study examines how
traumatic childhood experiences affect adult health and well-being. The
ACE Study reveals a strong relationship between emotional experiences
that occur in childhood and adult physical and mental health. It documents
how adverse emotional experiences in childhood lead to organic disease
later in life. The ACE study is a collaborate effort between the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente's Department
of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, California. For more information,
see the ACE Study website at www.acestudy.org.
Registration: No registration is necessary to view this FREE seminar at
DPH. However, if you are not a DPH employee, you must show a photo ID,
sign in, and obtain a visitor pass at the DPH entrance in order to proceed
to the 2nd floor Public Health Council Room. If you cannot join us in
the Public Health Council room for this web seminar, you can alternatively
pre-register to view the seminar at your own computer by sending an e-mail
to webseminar@cdc.gov by April 22, 2005 or view the archived seminar after
April 29 at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's website www.nsvrc.org.
The Clothesline Project - April 30, 2005
Tee shirts will be our canvas to speak out against sexual violence. Come
deocrate a tee shirt if you're a survivor of sexual assault or if you
know someone who is a survivor let the community hear our voices and help
end sexual assault.
Location:
The Atheneum Garden
1 India Street
Nantucket
Date: April 30, 2005
Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sponsors: Marine Home Center's Sports Locker, HaulOver, Dan's Pharmacy
Contact: Andrea Marcavitch
Phone: 508.228.0561
Fax: 508.228.8825
Email: safe@nantucket.net
“It’s Time to START, so It Can STOP!”
- April 30, 2005
Did you Know… 0nly 1 in 10 report sexual assault and
For 2003, Boston reported 781 sexual assaults
Did you Know…. 338 of those survivors were under
the age of 16……
Sexual Assault is the most underreported crime in the nation….1998
Study showed 17.7 million reported a sexual assault and more than half
were under age 17 .
JOIN with CPASA-Teens Networking Teens and City Year to plan with the
Community this April Event to bring awareness of this silent crime against
our young people.
Date: April 30, 2005 at Ceylon Park
Planning Meetings: Roxbury Multi-Service Center
Every Monday at 6 p.m. until the Event
To attend/Info : CALL 617-427-4470 ext. 415
For more information click here.
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