Campaign’s goal: Curb sexual assault
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At least two-thirds of all sexual assaults are never reported, the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control. “That is why it is so important that we awareness … to draw attention to the truth, namely, that no one deserves to be sexually abused,” says Christina Scar Pino, director of development at Every Woman’s Place and Webster House Youth Services in Muskegon. “One of the four of us knows someone who has been sexually abused,” she says. “We have something to do. This must change. ” To this end, each Woman’s Place - offers services for women and children who have been attacked - monthlong campaign in April, the Awareness Month Sexual Assault. The campaign consists of three parts. The first is a tape drive, starting Tuesday, public attention to the cause. One can make a band “packages” with two teal blue stripes - one that I have on the antenna of their car and the other to a friend. Included in the package are two cards-sized booklets on the place where the victims of sexual coercion may seek help to ask that their rights to do what when they are attacked, and other information . Scar Pino request that people leave the leaflets in public places accessible to others - a restaurant, public toilets, schools, locker rooms and laundries are some of the proposals. “Maybe need to find someone who has one,” she said. It can be charged to each parcel Woman’s Place, 1221 W. Laketon, the sun, wind and rain, 477 W. West-Provence and Salon, 3528 Henry. For the second part of the campaign to host the Agency public screening of the film, “North Country”, 7 pm on April 17 at the Muskegon Museum of Art, 296 W. Webster. The winning film offers a performance of Charlize Theron and occupation with Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson and Sean Bean. History is with emotion. He referred in particular to women, who broke a barrier between the sexes for hazardous work in the iron mines of Minnesota, then broke the legal basis for the nation’s first complaint of sexual harassment. As a result of the sequence, social workers Melissa Reid, sexual coercion, the therapist Every Woman’s Place, a debate on sexual violence. Invitations are to companies and employers in the region, said Pino Scar. “It is hard to do things,” said Pino Scar. “If you believe that domestic violence is difficult to talk, it is really difficult to talk about sexual coercion and rape.” Every Woman’s Place and Webster are also house displays of the tournament in the field of lightning and high school gyms |