The Walk

Rape Crisis Intervention Service of Carroll County presents

4th Annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®

The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Dutterer Family Park to Westminster City Park (See Map or More info)
Registration Begins at 10am at Dutterer Park walk begins at 11am

Parking information: There is street parking around the park as well as a lot. Please DO NOT use the lot behind the Masonic Temple. Overflow parking is available at West Middle School.

About The Event

Rape Crisis Intervention Service is getting ready for the 4th Annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.

This year's event will begin registration at Dutterer Park in Westminster (where the walk has previously been held). The walk will begin at 11am where the walkers will venture out of the park, on to Pennsylvania Avenue and on to Main Street. The walk will continue up Main Street and make a turn down Center Street to conclude the walk at Westminster City Park.

New to this year’s walk will be music, awards, food and a short program at the conclusion of the walk!!!

We hope everyone else is as excited as we are for this year’s event. Get your feet ready gentlemen!

Background About The Movement

Put Yourself in Her Shoes™

Each year, an ever-increasing number of men, women and their families are joining Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® is a fun opportunity for men to educate the community about a very serious subject and to rally the community to take action to prevent sexualized violence.

First You Walk the Walk

There is an old saying: "You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® asks men to literally walk one mile in women's high-heeled shoes. It's not easy walking in these shoes, but it's fun and it gets the community to talk about something that's really difficult to talk about: gender relations and sexual violence.

Then You Talk the Talk

It's critical to open up communication about sexual violence. While hidden away, it's immune to cure. Unfortunately, it's difficult to get people talking. People unfamiliar with it often don't even want to know it exists. It's ugly. People that have experienced it themselves want to forget about it. How do you get them talking now, so they can prevent it from happening? And after it's happened, how do you get them to talk about it so they can recover?

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® provides several opportunities to get people talking. For preventive education, it helps men better understand and appreciate women's experiences, thus changing perspectives, helping improve gender relationships and decreasing the potential for violence. For healing, it informs the community that services are available for recovery. It demonstrates that men are willing and able to be courageous partners with women in making the world a safer place.

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