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HOUGHTON Strut your pup virtually or in-person in Houghton for Dial Help’s latest event! April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month – not an easy topic to talk about, but raising awareness about it can create safer communities. Because unfortunately, sexual assault happens everywhere, including here in the Copper Country. Resources like Dial Help’s Victim Services program are available to offer free and confidential support.
“Teal is the color for sexual assault awareness, and we want to paint our communities teal for April,” said Paige Setter-Hallwachs, Sexual Assault Coordinator at Dial Help. “We wanted to have something virtual and in-person so everyone can be included, whether they’re comfortable being around others or not.”
As a restless nation took to the streets for police reform in 2020, then-statehouse-candidate Karlee Provenza a Laramie Democrat traveled the streets of Wyoming’s third-largest city on a campaign of her own.
A PhD candidate in criminal justice at the University of Wyoming, Provenza had a personal relationship with the national conversation on redefining law enforcement. In the wake of the controversial police-involved shooting of mentally ill man Robbie Ramirez in her community in 2018, Provenza organized a police reform group, Albany County for Proper Policing.
On the campaign trail, Provenza pitched voters on a promise of not only delivering a progressive and working-class perspective to the Legislature, but on helping to reform the very thing that spurred her own activism: what she considers an oversight in the system. That oversight, she said, allows officers with patterns of misconduct elsewhere to serve in Wyoming.
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Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
LANSING – Michigan will develop a roadmap to ensure victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking have enhanced access to civil legal assistance in Michigan’s rural and tribal communities thanks to a federal grant awarded to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Division of Victim Services.
Limited financial resources, geographic isolation, and diverse cultural barriers currently inhibit many tribal and rural victims from accessing essential legal services and representation.
“Providing affordable, equitable, and accessible civil legal representation to all victims of crime is essential, and this project seeks to enhance these efforts for those living in rural and tribal communities,” said Debi Cain, executive director of the MDHHS Division of Victim Services. “This multi-coalition partnership shows how important these efforts are to countless victims and their families, and we are grate
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