SAS Special Projects & Calendar of Events

Projects include Take Back The Night, The Clothesline Project, and a new website where survivors and their family and friends can find answers to their questions, resources for additional help and immediate access to a crisis advocate.



                         Take Back the Night 
April is Sexual Assault Awareness month.  Each year the SAS volunteers and staff host a Take Back the Night event.  Take Back the Night is a national campaign created to heighten awareness of the crime of sexual violence.  It is a celebration of courage.  The courage to speak out against sexual violence, courage to report, courage to take action within our community, and the courage of every survivor who has been the unwilling victim of sexual violence.

2012 Take Back the Night will be held at the Dearborn Adult Center in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on April 12, 5:30pm to 8:00pm.  Special quest speaker is Karen Duncan.
 
There will be a fabulous silent auction and plenty of good food.  The Clothesline Project will also be on display.

This event is free to the public.












Special Project
Clothesline Project
What is the Clothesline Project?  The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts representing women survivors and victims of violence such as rape, sexual assault, dating violence and domestic violence. The shirts have graphic messages and drawings created by survivors or by someone who knows/loves a women who is a survivor or became a victim of violence.

This project originated in Massachusetts in the fall of 1990.  It now encompasses more than 500 communities and several foreign countries.  It is a visual tribute to the courage of all women and a means of bringing the barbarity of these crimes to the forefront.

The purpose of the project is four-fold.
  • To bear witness to the survivors as well as the victims of the war against women.
  • To help with the healing process for people who have lost a loved one or are survivors.
  • To educate, document, and raise society's awareness of the extent of the problem of violence against women.
  • To provide a nationwide network of support, encouragement, and information for other communities starting their own Clothesline Projects.

Southeast Indiana has a "traveling" Clothesline Project.  SAS volunteers and staff travel to various public locations displaying the Clothesline and providing survivors with materials to create their own.





                  

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SPECIAL TAKE BACK THE NIGHT EVENT
WHERE: Brookville, Indiana
WHEN: May 4, 2012
10:00am - 7:00pm Clothesline Project will be on display
6:30pm Presentations 
8:00pm Main Street March
Gather on the courthouse lawn.  Bring a candle or flash light and a bounce in your step with determination in your heart.