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ACC, Hope Shores Alliance collaborate for Sexual Assault Awareness Month | News, Sports, Jobs

May 4, 2021 Courtesy Photos Alpena Community College’s Student Leadership Commission put together a denim clothesline exhibit as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Students and staff were encouraged to sign or decorate jeans as a way of standing up to sexual violence and showing their support for survivors. ACC and Hope Shores Alliance hosted a virtual vigil on Facebook Live on Wednesday, April 28th. This event featured live music, interviews with community members, a moment of silence, sharing of resources, a candle lighting ceremony, and learning more about how we can all work together to stop sexual assault. ACC President Dr. Don MacMaster is pictured taking part in interviews with HSA staff Paige Allia and Rachel Berzack.

Activists, survivor discuss ways to fight sexual assault | News, Sports, Jobs

If someone sexually assaults you, yell, “Fire!,” Abbey Podbielski learned growing up. “If you yell ‘rape,’ nobody will do anything,” said Podbielski, an Alpena resident and a survivor of childhood sexual assault. Every year, Alpena County sexual assault survivors disclose dozens of rapes and other sex crimes to police, advocates for sexual assault survivors, family members, and others. If national statistics hold true, those reports represent only a fraction of the assaults actually occuring in the county. In recent years, Alpena County leaders secured grants, provided training, and collaborated with other agencies to more effectively care for survivors and hold perpetrators accountable.

Alpena County s sex assault rate exceeds state — which may or may not be a good thing | News, Sports, Jobs

jriddle@thealpenanews.com Alpena County either excels at supporting sexual assault survivors or has a serious sex crime problem. Over the past five years, Alpena County police received more than 300 reports of sexual assaults including rape, unwanted sexual touching, and other forced sex acts making sex assaults the most prevalent violent crime in our area, according to Michigan State Police data. The data also suggests we might have more of a problem than other communities: The assaults reported here over the last five years work out to 1,102 assaults per 100,000 residents, double the statewide rate (Alpena County’s per-capita rate shows more assaults than actually reported because we have fewer than 100,000 residents).

Red Sand Project human trafficking awareness event today | News, Sports, Jobs

dhinkley@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Darby Hinkley Stephanie Dettloff, executive director of Child and Family Services of Northeast Michigan, talks about the Red Sand Project human trafficking awareness event planned for today at Rotary Island Mill Park. ALPENA ­– Human trafficking happens right here in Northeast Michigan, and organizers of an awareness event want the community to learn how to spot the warning signs. Child and Family Services of Northeast Michigan and Hope Shores Alliance have teamed up to present the event, called the Red Sand Project, at 6 p.m. today at Rotary Island Mill Park in Alpena. “There have been concerns about whether or not children are being trafficked in our region, and we know that it’s happening, and we know that human trafficking is probably becoming one of the fastest-growing crimes,” said Child and Family Services Executive Director Stephanie Dettloff. “We want to make sure there is community awareness for all of us, because it

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