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Voices for Justice Network is a 501 c3 Public Benefit <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />....California.... non-profit corporation.  We are dedicated to helping survivors of both sexual violence and exploitation.  Our outreach networks throughout the United Sates help locate victims of sexual violence and provide them with services that prevent re-victimization.  We seek to reveal the interconnections between domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual exploitation, all forms of violence.   ....

The silver braid strategy begins to define sexual violence as having these three parts: domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, including both domestic and international trafficking. ....

Anne Bissell, the executive Director, has spoken for the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and was asked to be a part of a Brain Trust for the former director of Trafficking Rescue and Restore campaign, and has participated in two roundtables sponsored by the Department of Justice, Office of Violence against Women in 2008. ....

  The programs underneath the Voices for Justice umbrella are now run in jails, churches, recovery homes, and are in 25 ....US.... cities, as well as internationally.  ....

Our programs create a web portal: ....

www.thesilverbraid.org, www.vfjnw.org, www.sexualabusesurvivors.com, www.sexualexploitationsurvivors.org, www.sexindustrysurvivors.com ....

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Proudly announces

The First Annual Survivors of  Sexual Violence Awareness Day

January 10, 2009

The Executive Director of Voices for Justice Network (vfjnw.org) Anne Bissell, author of Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor (2004), founder of national support groups for survivors such as The Silver Braid Survivors Network (www.thesilvernbraid.org,)   is proud to announce a new public awareness strategy and campaign called SAVE  (standing against violence and exploitation).

To mark the commencement of SAVE, we of the Voices for Justice Network are also proclaiming JANUARY 10, 2009 as National Survivors of Sexual Violence Day.

The day marks Ms. Bissell's birthday, and it also the day, one year ago, she was told she  had lost the life of a trafficking victim she was attempting to bring to a safe house in Atlanta, Georgia.  The girl was lost in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Montgomery Alabama, badly beaten by international traffickers, and was thought to not have made it.  The young woman, "M," was trafficked into the United States in a duffel bag, and was forced to work the streets of the United States from 13 until 18. 

Miraculously, through our underground networks and interconnected websites and other operations, "M" has managed to find a safe place, and is now doing well. 

January 10 marks the miraculous ability of girls and women like "M" all over the United States who survive sexual violence. SAVE works in affiliation with the Silver Braid symbol, a symbol of hope and redemption.  The SAVE campaign will also serve to bring awareness to the new definition of sexual violence put forth by the offices of Voices for Justice Network.  Sexual violence has three parts:  domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation (sex trafficking). 

On this day, we encourage you to honor those who took a stand to SAVE both themselves and others from sexual violence.  For further information, please call the National Survivors of Sexual Violence Hotline  888 702 7273

Or contact Anne Bissell at sisasurvive@yahoo.com or the national program director J.A. Chandler at silverbraidca@yahoo.com. Related sites

www.vfjnw.org

www.thesilverbraid.org

www.sexualexploitationsurvivors.org

www.sexindustrysurvivors.com

www.sexualabusesurvivors.com

please join us on our online yahoo group at

Click to join thesilverbraidsurvivorsnetwork

Help Support Operation Silver Braid

Make a charitable, tax-deductible donation today to help us with our cause

We need help with funding so that we can purchase materials to create educational materials, newsletters, cards, flyers, etc. for The Silver Braid

Our goal is to help bring healing to those that have been victims to sexual exploitation and human trafficking.

Our purpose is to bring education to our communities about this huge invisible epidemic that society turns their head the other way to and ignores that their young daughters, sisters, nieces, friends, etc. are being exploited.

This needs the attention of all in our society to help break this cycle of devastation.

Please do not be one of those in our society that turns their head thinking this is not your problem.

You can call us at our toll free helpline 1-888-702-7273

Email Anne Bissell at sisasurvive@yahoo.com

Visit our website: www.thesilverbraid.org

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