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SUMMARY:Spring Community CleanOut
DESCRIPTION:Spring is HERE and it’s time to CLEAN OUT those closets\, kitchens\, garages and more !! \nDid You Know If you have a large donation (furniture\, neighborhood/ group clean out\, etc.) we can come to you!! Just give us a call to schedule your pickup today (936) 441-4044 ext53!! \nSTEP IT UP by getting together with friends\, family and neighbors and organize a group cleanout/ donation. \n  \nWe utilize donations in many ways… all of which benefit victims/survivors in our community. \n\nShelter residents and their children receive shoes and clothing since these items are generally left behind when fleeing.\nVictims/Survivors from our community are able to come shop at the resale shop with vouchers for clothing\, furniture and other necessities.\nTransitional housing apartments are completely furnished with donated furniture and housewares for new residents.\nShelter residents receive furniture and household items when re-building their homes and lives.\nRevenue from the store helps keep the shelter open.\n\n  \nCOME VISIT US AT SOMETHING SPECIAL (Shopping & Donation Hours and Location) \nMonday – Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. \n19073 I-45 South (in the Portofino Plaza next to Sam’s Club)
URL:https://mcwctx.org/event/spring-community-cleanout-2/
LOCATION:Something Special\, 19073 I-45 # 180\, Shenandoah\, TX\, 77385
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SUMMARY:SAAM On-Demand Video Series
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the month of April\, we will be joining the nation in promoting awareness of sexual assault with other agencies and organizations in our area. Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) gives our community the opportunity to speak up against sexual violence that will only grow if we keep silent.\n\nJoin us this month for an ON-DEMAND TRAINING SERIES. Once you register you will receive an email with 9 trainings. Additionally throughout the month you will be text an individual link to remind you to watch.\n\nTrainings include:\n\nMCWC Agency Overview (12 MINUTES)\nCriteria for Consent (10 MINUTES)\nSexual Assault & Special Populations (22 MINUTES)\nExploring Victim Blaming (16 MINUTES)\nWays To Stop Contributing to Rape Culture (15 MINUTES)\nHow To Support Survivors of Sexual Assault (16 MINUTES)\nRights And Options You Have As A Victim of Sexual Assault (16 MINUTES)\nConsent 101 (10 MINUTES)\nMaking Your Own Comfort Box (23 MINUTES)\n\n  \nTO REGISTER CLICK HERE: igfn.us/form/LRUzfg
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SUMMARY:Sexual Assault Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the month of April\, we will be joining the nation in promoting awareness of sexual assault with other agencies and organizations in our area.  Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) gives our community the opportunity to speak up against sexual violence that will only grow if we keep silent.
URL:https://mcwctx.org/event/sexual-assault-awareness-month/
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SUMMARY:Sexual Assault Victims Donation Drive
DESCRIPTION:This is the underwear that no woman wants to wear.\n\nAnd it’s not just because it’s a plain cotton sports bra the color of Pepto-Bismol.\n\nIt’s because this is the underwear we give to survivors of rape and sexual assault after we take their own underwear as evidence.\n\nWe take their nice underwear\, their favorite underwear\, their cute underwear\, their comfy underwear\, their best-fitting bra\, their 75-dollar designer bra\, their weekend bra\, their work bra.  And we take it away from them while wearing gloves\, and drop it into a paper bag\, and seal it with evidence tape and write their police case number on the outside\, and send it to the state crime lab\, and they never see it again.\n\nAnd we give them some Fruit from the Loom to wear home\, back to a life and a world they no longer recognize and no longer trust.\n\nBut here’s the kicker:  That boring sports bra is WAY way WAY better than what some survivors get when they’re discharged.\n\nSome women have ALL of their clothes taken for evidence.  Shirt.  Undershirt.  Pants.  Bra.  Underwear.  Even their socks.  And if the local forensic/sexual assault program that cares for them doesn’t have — or won’t buy — or can’t buy — clothes for them\, they get discharged in hospital scrubs.\n\nAnd grippy hospital socks.\n\nAnd postpartum white-mesh hospital underwear.\n\nAnd no bra.\n\nEver seen a woman who’s just been raped\, just had a three-hour forensic exam\, just had every surface of her battered body swabbed and photographed and inventoried for the police\, ever seen her walk out of a hospital wearing oversized hospital scrubs —\n\n—and her arms wrapped tightly around her chest\, ashamed\, because she doesn’t have a bra to wear?\n\nI have.\n\nAnd I absolutely refuse to ever see it again.\n\nThis is $150 of underwear from Kohl’s.  My team and I buy this underwear ourselves for our patients\, because we are no longer willing to let any of our survivors go home without a bra\, or without a decent pair of underwear.\n\nIf you are looking for a place to donate something meaningful this holiday season\, reach out to your local Forensic Nursing team\, rape crisis center\, or domestic violence shelter.\n\nGo to Wal-Mart\, or Kohl’s\, or Target\, and buy clothes you’d feel comfortable in curled up\, safe at home\, watching TV.  And donate them.\n\nNew underwear\, a comfortable bra\, a comfortable pair of pants\, a soft hoody\, squishy socks — all of these things can help make a woman who has survived a violent rape feel like a person again.\n\nA person.\nNot a victim.\n\nBecause it’s a long walk down that hallway\, out of the hospital\, and back into the world.\n\nAt least she can be comfortable as she takes each step.\n\n* * *\n\n\nHeartbreaking but REAL & RAW account from a forensic nurse.\n\nMontgomery County Women’s Center advocates responded 515 sexual assault exams in 2021. \nIf you or your organization are interested in donating bras & underwear for our Sexual Assault Advocacy Program they can be dropped off or mail to:\nMontgomery County Women’s Center: 1401 Airport Rd\, Conroe TX 77301 (Attn: Siomara)
URL:https://mcwctx.org/event/sexual-assault-victims-donation-drive/
LOCATION:1401 Airport Rd\, Conroe TX 77301
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SUMMARY:In Bloom Community Garden @ Something Special
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URL:https://mcwctx.org/event/in-bloom-community-garden-something-special/
LOCATION:Something Special\, 19073 I-45 # 180\, Shenandoah\, TX\, 77385
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