• April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc. (CHH) is ready to spread the word in order to break the silence that surrounds sexual violence. We are also increasing our efforts to prevent it! So break-out your teal colors and join us in our mission to create a community free from sexual violence
• Don’t Be THIRSTY! Advertising Campaign (April-June)- Keep your eyes open for the launch of our latest effort to combat sexual violence that focuses on youth on youth violence. The “Don’t Be THIRSTY!” campaign seeks to inform teens and young adults about sexual violence and give them tools to help create healthier relationships and safer communities. The advertisements will be running on the Lowell Regional Transit Authority busses, but will reach further than that. Feel free to share the tag-line “Don’t Be THIRSTY!” and spread the word via your social media!
• Lobby Day at The State House- April 4th CHH will be joining Jane Doe, Inc. (The statewide coalition against domestic violence and sexual assault) and advocates from across the state as we meet with our elected officials and take our demands for resources and better supports for survivors throughout the Commonwealth.
• Take Back The Night (and Day)- April 24th 9:30am-9:30pm This year CHH is expanding the traditional Take Back The Night event in Lowell by adding an educational day program. Join us at 9:30am at UMass Lowell for an opening reception and a presentation from Joan Tabachnick, local and national expert on sexual violence prevention.

REGISTER HERE: http://takebackthedaylowell-efbevent.eventbrite.com/

• We will also be announcing the new Lowell initiative– Engaging Men and Boys as Allies in Sexual Violence Prevention (a new project funded by the Office on Violence Against Women).
• Then rally with the Take Back the Night Committee that evening at 6:00pm at City Hall where the community will deliver its powerful message that we commit to end sexual violence. This year’s guest speaker, Secretary of Public Safety, Andrea Cabral, will join us! We will then march through downtown Lowell to Middlesex Community College, where closing ceremonies will happen.

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• Volunteers- Interested in joining us in our mission to create communities free from sexual violence? Become part of the amazing team at CHH! Our next volunteer training is in May so sign-up now. Slots fill up quickly.