Awareness Events BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER & SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT. Candlelight Vigil

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1 Awareness Events BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER & SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT C o m m u n i t y W i d e E v e n t s #BENNINGTONGOESBLUE Monday April 8 th, join our staff in raising awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month. Wear blue for the day and post your photos to social media using #BENNINGTONGOESBLUE Make sure your photo Is public, so we can see it and share it on our page! Candlelight Vigil Join our staff on the porch of the CAC office to view the Clothesline Project and hear our speaker for the evening at 6:30pm. Meet us at the Four Corners of Main Street at 7PM with your candles and signs of support for the vigil in honor of child abuse and sexual assault survivors in our community. Pins for Prevention Our staff along with officers from the Bennington Police Department, Bennington County Sheriff s Department, Winhall Police Department, Arlington Rescue and many more, will be wearing blue pinwheel pins for Child Abuse Prevention Month. Learn about how this started and how you can join in on page 2. THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT The clothesline Project will be makings its way throughout the community again this year. The Clothesline will begin at our 129 Elm Street office Monday April 8 th and remain onsite for 3 days. See page 2 for a full schedule of locations. We will be hosting multiple opportunities for survivors and their loved ones to create shirts to be displayed. Awareness Events 1

2 Pins for Prevention Pins for Prevention will be worn by Police Officers and others in our Community for the month of April. Pins for Prevention was an idea of the late Officer Dustin Lynds, of the Bennington Police Department. With our office hosting the #Benningtongoesblue campaign each year, Officer Lynds wanted to find a way that he could participate while in uniform serving our community. A pin on his uniform was a way for him to participate and help raise awareness. Since the Bennington Police Department kicked this off last April, multiple other departments and community members have joined in and are wearing pins. If you are interested in purchasing a pin to wear for the month of April, Please contact Jenna Caslin at jenna.caslin@partner.vermont.gov We ask for a minimum donation of $1 per pin. SHIRT DISPLAY CREATING EVENTS Our office will host the following evenings for individuals who have been impacted by Child Abuse and Sexual Assault, to come and create a t-shirt for the Clothesline Project display. During these hours you can either create a shirt or drop off a shirt you created on your own. T h u r s d a y M a r c h 1 4 : 1 2 p - 1 p T u e s d a y M a r c h 1 9 : 4 p - 5 p F r i d a y M a r c h 2 9 : 4 p - 5 p The fight to protect our children, is one we must fight together. -Unknown The Clothesline Project APRIL 8-10: BENNINGTON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER, 129 ELM STREET BENNINGTON APRIL 11-12: SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, 244 UNION STREET BENNINGTON APRIL 15: BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD, 120 MCKINLEY STREET BENNINGTON APRIL 16-17: SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE, MANSION DRIVE BENNINGTON APRIL 18-19: UNITED COUNSELING- YOUTH & FAMILY, 314 DEWEY STREET BENNINGTON APRIL 22-24: ADAMS PARK MAIN STREET MANCHESTER CENTER APRIL 25-26: THE VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON, DEPOT & MAIN ST NORTH BENNINGTON APRIL 29-30: ARLINGTON COMMUNITY HOUSE, 3854 MAIN STREET, ARLINGTON There remains what seems like an impenetrable wall of silence around violence and we must all play a role in breaking this silence. -Reese Witherspoon 2

3 Turn your pocket change, into real change. To raise more funds for the programming we offer Bennington County, some of our Pinwheel Partners will be hosting coin drop locations. These coin drops are available for you to make a drop throughout month of April : Shaftsbury Elementary Myers-Prouty Campuses Lil Peeps Pownal Elementary Forever Friends Southern Vermont Auto, LLC Women s View Midwifery, LLC Northshire Day School Mount Anthony Union Middle School Molly Stark Elementary School Catamount Connections THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS FOR JOINING US WEARING PINS FOR PREVENTION 3

4 Members of our MDT team for #BENNINGTONGOESBLUE Candlelight Vigil at the Four Corners of Main Street in Bennington. The pinwheel garden on our office lawn will be on display the entire month of April. The Clothesline Project on our office lawn. BE SURE TO FOLLOW OUR FOR UPDATES ON OUR APRIL EVENTS! 4

5 Good Food, Great Cause I AM EVIDENCE exposes the alarming number of untested rape kits in the United States through a character driven narrative, bringing much needed attention to the disturbing pattern of how the criminal justice system has historically treated sexual assault survivors. In this film, we seek to send a clear message to survivors that they matter, that we as a nation will do everything possible to bring them a path to healing and justice, and that their perpetrators will be held accountable for their crimes. T h u r s d a y A p r i l 2 5 f r o m 1 1 a m - 11pm e n j o y a m e a l a t C h i l i s o f B e n n i n g t o n w h i l e s u p p o r t i n g t h e B e n n i n g t o n C o u n t y C h i l d A d v o c a c y C e n t e r! S i m p l y b r i n g a c o p y o f t h e f l y e r a n d 1 0 % o f y o u r purc h a s e w i l l b e d o n a t e d! T h e f l y e r c a n b e f o u n d o n o u r F a c e b o o k p a g B C C A C o r y o u c a n g r a b a c o p y f r o m t h e b a s k e t o n o u r f r o n t p o r c h a t E l m s t r e e t A p r i l T h a n k y o u i n a d v a n c e f o r y o u r s u p p o r t! This free viewing of I AM EVIDENCE is being sponsored by Southern Vermont College, in partnership with PAVE and the CAC. Thursday April 18, 2019 Laumeister Theatre 44 Gypsy Lane Bennington, VT Doors open at 6pm Film begins at 7pm Checkout our store front displays during April at the following locations The Cone Building 139 Main Street Bennington Vermont Kitchen Supply 4788 Main Street Manchester Community Bank 210 Northside Drive Bennington 5