Support group facilitator training is also offered to interested advocates. Throughout the month of April, the Sexual Trauma and Recovery Services of Aroostook County plans to hold activities in the surrounding towns, aimed at increasing sexual assault awareness. One project that will be traveling to different towns is the Clothesline Project. The Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to the violence against women. Sexual assault victims decorate a shirt in such a way as to represent their own experience.
Loved ones can also decorate a shirt on behalf of the victims.
The shirts will all be hung on a clothesline and displayed at various locations. Sexual Trauma and Recovery Services will also be hosting Speak Outs where victims and loved ones can come and perform skits, read poetry, dance, or play music to dramatize their experience with sexual assault. April will end with Take Back the Night Marches, which will be held in selected towns. All of the events planned for April can be found in Aroostook Magazine s Calender of Events. Awareness is the first step in not only healing those who have been raped or assaulted in the past, but also stopping a predator from collecting any more sexual assault victims.