5th
Annual Walk
Date: Saturday, April 29 Times:
The two teams that raise the largest total donation will win a $500 certificate at either Bad Habit Brewing Company or Blacklight Adventures. A minimum of $1,000 donation raised under one team name is required to qualify. Our first Walk was hosted on Saturday, April 27, 2019, and we have decided to go back to our roots and to honor National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. In 2022 we raised $39,000 in donations, sponsorships, registrations, and had 130 walkers registered and 38 sponsors. In kind donations in total of $13,250. All proceeds from the event benefit Central MN Sexual Assault Center’s (CMSAC) services to survivors of sex trafficking/exploitation and other forms of sexual violence, including child sexual abuse.
- 8:30am Registration
- 9am - 10:30 am Speakers
- 10:30am - 12:00pm Walk
The two teams that raise the largest total donation will win a $500 certificate at either Bad Habit Brewing Company or Blacklight Adventures. A minimum of $1,000 donation raised under one team name is required to qualify. Our first Walk was hosted on Saturday, April 27, 2019, and we have decided to go back to our roots and to honor National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. In 2022 we raised $39,000 in donations, sponsorships, registrations, and had 130 walkers registered and 38 sponsors. In kind donations in total of $13,250. All proceeds from the event benefit Central MN Sexual Assault Center’s (CMSAC) services to survivors of sex trafficking/exploitation and other forms of sexual violence, including child sexual abuse.
Speakers
Amy Peine is the “Safe Harbor for All” Grant Project Coordinator at Central MN Sexual Assault Center (CMSAC). She’s been with CMSAC for more than five years providing direct services to survivors of all forms of sexual trauma. She presents training sessions to professionals and community members, facilitates prevention education with students, and has a particular interest in the issues around commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. She believes in creating a true safe harbor within the state of Minnesota for all individuals who have or are being sexually exploited regardless of age; clearing the barriers of criminal liabilities, providing supportive services for healing trauma, and building exit ramps out of the life.
Cassie Bauman, MSW, LGSW is the Safe Harbor Services Coordinator at the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center (CMSAC). She started with CMSAC in the spring of 2021 and provides direct services to survivors of all forms of sexual trauma. Cassie presents training sessions to professionals and community members, facilitates prevention education with students, and has a particular interest in the issues surrounding commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. She believes in centering survivors’ voices, creating a true safe harbor within the state of Minnesota for all individuals who have been or are being sexually exploited regardless of age, walking with those on their healing journey, and dismantling the patriarchy piece by piece. In her spare time, Cassie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, writing, and listening to music.
Celeste Walz is an investigator with the Central MN Human Trafficking Task Force and Waite Park Police Department. Celeste has been with Waite Park for a year and a half and prior to that was a patrol officer in St. Joseph for five and half years. She has been on the task force for just over a year working cases on solicitation of children, prostitution, and sex trafficking.