Educators, Youth coordinators, Soc.svc prov. and Community Ldrs

Calling all Educators, Youth program coordinators, Social service providers and Community Leaders to the free Get Off ME! Showcase happening at 1:00 PM, on March 31, 2012 at the Lion of Judah Christian Center. 4400 Hamilton Avenue in Northside, Ohio. We will be showcasing our one hour workshop designed to encourage and empower at risk youth/young adults who are, or, have been victims of sexual abuse. Our primary objective is to inform and remind our youth that they have a Voice through spoken word poetry, story-telling and drama.

Perhaps what we’re doing is neither new nor innovative.  Perhaps you’ve already had the talk about ‘good touch’ vs. ‘bad touch’ or maybe you’re comfortable in holding fast to the belief that, “I am NOT my brother’s keeper.” Or maybe you don’t know any children so the breaking news of: ‘High school teacher has sex with student’, ‘Eighteen year old reports being assaulted on campus’, ‘Sex slave trafficking in the US is on the rise’, ‘Another Hollywood celebrity reveals shocking truth about childhood abuse’ or ‘Young woman shot and killed because she finally decided to tell her mother that the father of her child, is actually the mother’s boyfriend’, maybe these breaking news updates don’t bother you at all but there are a few people out here who would like to try and make a difference.

Second to parents, educators have the most contact with our children…so we need you. Those who oversee our youth during extra-curricular activities, (sports, girl/boy scouts, visual/performing arts, youth leadership programs, ect… we need you. Abuse is not deterred by one’s religious affiliation and neither are we, so to all religious youth leaders, youth choir directors and what not…we need you. College (health and safety, fraternity, sorority, student union or community outreach) leaders…we need you.

Local social service agencies; you are hereby put on notice. What happens if the message, (G.O.ME!) gets out and suddenly a wave of youth and young adults feel empowered and begin to flood your phone lines for help? G.O.ME! will encourage them to speak up and speak out and seek ‘Professional’ assistance. That’s where you come in. Someone suggested to me that they would inform the child to first tell the parent(s). Suppose the parent is responsible for the abuse? Then what? That’s why, WE NEED YOU.

Again, this is a FREE event and refreshments will be provided by the Leading Ladies Christian Ministry. Who are the ‘Leading Ladies’? Remember that old lady in your neighborhood or in your church when you were little that told everything you did? The one who would come outside in that tattered robe and break up fights, drag you by the ear and give you a spanking all the way home then tell your parents where you were, what you were doing, why she spanked you and then invite your mother to her church revival? The same lady who made sure you had a quarter to put in the collection plate right before she threatened to hit you upside the head for not paying attention in church? The same lady who cooked and delivered chicken noodle soup to your family when everybody got sick? Reminded you that it wasn’t safe to play in the street? Gave you money and a card when you finally graduated from school…then gave you a little extra when she found out that you were going to college? Well, she’s back with reinforcements. These ladies are committed in their faith and believe in charity. Sort of like Mary and Martha; they love God but don’t expect them to just sit around and do nothing.

Not too late to register via cincygome@gmail.com

See you on the 31^st!!!!!!!!!!