6th Annual Walk to Stop the Silence
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect and encourage individuals and communities to support children and families.
Survivors Healing Center encourages families, service providers, churches, community members and law enforcement to come join us. Join us in the fight to end child sexual abuse in our communities! Take action and join our movement! We invite community members to walk and raise funds to end child sexual abuse! Go to our website: www.walktostopthesilence.org to sign up to be a walker or get more information about the walk.
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Walkers will be entertained by the local dance troupe White Hawks Danza Azteca and local politicians will address the crowd, including Chief of Police Manny Solano, County Supervisor Greg Caput and Watsonville Mayor Eduardo Montesino. There will be a raffle for the walkers and art activities for kids!
The Walk to Stop the Silence is led by Survivors Healing Center in collaboration with: Bikers Against Child Abuse (B.A.C.A.), Brown Berets Watsonville, Defensa de Mujeres, DJ Bahia Tropical, Emalou King, Girlzpace Watsonville, Friends Outside/Santa Cruz Volunteer Center, Headstart, Janus of Santa Cruz, Latina Affairs Commission, Male Survivor, Misa Leonessa, Mountain Oak Comprehensive Care, Pajaro Valley Shelter, Papas, Salud Para La Gente, Sanctuary Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Residential Recovery, Si Se Puede, Walnut Avenue Women’s Center, Watsonville Police Department and White Hawk Danza
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A special thank you to the following people, groups and companies for their fiscal sponsorship of the Walk:
Hosts: Bread for the Journey (Santa Cruz Chapter), Dr. Albert Crevello, MD and Rosemary Zarate-Crevello, LMFT, Cartwright, Scruggs, Fulton and Walther, First Baptist Church of Watsonville, Holy Cross Church, Master Car Wash, Nordic Naturals, The Register Pajaronian and The Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Sponsors: Angel of Dreams Boutique, C&N Tractor, Data Distributing, D' La Colmena, Lloyd's Tire Service, Odwalla, Our Lady of the Assumption Pajaro, Pure Water of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Stoves and Fireplaces, Shorelife Community Church, Temple Beth El and Western Design Flooring America.
Date: April 21, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Walk Registration: 9:30 AM
About the issue: “Child sexual abuse is a silent pandemic– with terrible consequences that wreak social and emotional havoc on children, adult survivors and society,” Approximately one in every three girls and one out of every six boys are sexually abused by the age of eighteen, (ACE Study 2005) and these are only the reported statistics.
