Community Convening: Conversations Not Heard

Community Convening: Conversations Not Heard

9th Annual Community Convening event featuring topic "Sexual Assault and its Impact on Our Community"

By Centro La Familia Advocacy Services

Date and time

Wednesday, June 12 · 9am - 12:30pm PDT

Location

Clovis Veterans Memorial District

808 4th Street Liberty Room Clovis, CA 93612

About this event

REGISTER NOW FOR AN INFORMATIVE MORNING EVENT ABOUT THE IMPACT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IN OUR COMMUNITY, FEATURING A KEYNOTE SPEAKER, PANELS OF LOCAL ADVOCATES AND EXPERTS, AND COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST!

BREAKFAST WILL BE SERVED FROM 8 - 8:30 A.M.

Fresno nonprofit Centro La Familia Advocacy Services hosts a "Community Convening: Conversations Not Heard" event each year to raise awareness about the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking and the life-changing services its Victim Services Department provides to victims and survivors. This year, the 9th annual event will feature the topic "Sexual Assault and its Impact on Our Community."

The Community Convening will bring together local experts, advocates, and professionals who will address the widespread impact of sexual assault on our community from a multicultural lens, reflecting on how to address this issue at a larger scale while maintaining cultural sensitivity.

The event will feature a keynote speaker, to be announced at a later time, who will share their personal experiences with sexual violence and its impact. The event will also feature a panel of local experts and a panel of local advocates for centralized discussion of the affect these crimes have from a multicultural lens that acknowledges the barriers and challenges survivors experience in reporting and addressing these crimes.

Centro La Familia invites local professionals within social work, law enforcement, medical, education, and legal fields who are looking to enhance their understanding and cultural awareness of these crimes to come together at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District on Wednesday, June 12 for this informative morning. Breakfast will be provided at no charge.

For more information, please contact Public Information Officer Ashley Flowers at (559) 237-2961 ext. 184 or Ashley.Flowers@CentroLaFamilia.org.

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Centro La Familia Advocacy Services

Founded in 1972, Centro La Familia Advocacy Services began as a small, urban-centered agency that provided direct advocacy and intervention services. Over the past four decades, we’ve grown into a multi-service agency that offers social service and education programs in both rural and urban areas of Fresno County.

Today, Centro La Familia provides a broad range of services to un-served and underserved residents in more than a dozen different communities. Each week, our experienced and specialized bilingual staff (English, Spanish and Hmong) works in remote areas of Fresno County to assist community members who face transportation barriers.

We serve more than 10,000 clients annually and reach more than 100,000 community members through outreach and education programs, presentations, workshops, special events and multi-media.