For more information, contact Laurie Harrison, KCSDV Communications Coordinator at 785-232-9784 or lharrison@kcsdv.org
Topeka, Kan. - Nearly 20,000 Kansans received services for domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking from the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence and its member programs last fiscal year.
This Thursday KCSDV honors those victims during its ribbon-cutting ceremony.
"We are dedicating the building to the memory of those who have died and to the future of those who have survived," said Sandy Barnett, Executive Director of KCSDV.
KCSDV recently moved to its new location, 634 SW Harrison, located one block north of the Kansas Statehouse.
This Thursday it celebrates the new location from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. with an Open House and a brief building dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5:00 p.m., expected to last five to ten minutes.
Visuals in the building include The Ribbon Tree...Remembering Rape: A Display of Sexual Violence, Silent Witness Exhibit: A Display of Domestic Violence, and the Black Women: Achievement Against the Odds, an exhibit sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Humanities Council.
Speakers at the building dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony include Sandy Barnett, Juliene Maska and Kathy Greenlee. Maska was KCSDV's first Board President who currently works for Governor Sebelius. Greenlee was KCSDV's first executive director who currently works for the Kansas Department on Aging.
"For more than 30 years, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy programs have been working to assist victims of battering, sexual assault, and stalking," said Barnett. "We look forward to having safe homes and safe streets in Kansas."
KCSDV is the state's only statewide network of domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy programs whose primary goals are safety, accountability, and justice. KCSDV works to support its 30 member programs by increasing public awareness through education and advocacy, exploring new options for services and funding, and by working for social change.
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