| The Silver Braid Pennsylvania |
| The Silver Braid Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Network
The Silver Braid is a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation under the umbrella Voices for Justice. Our goal is to help bring healing to those that have been victims to sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Our outreach networks throughout the United States that help locate victims of sexual exploitation and provide them with the services that help prevent re-victimization, helps assist survivors in getting out of the sex industry, finding new job skills and receiving a variety of other services that they need to redesign their lives to be able to live a healthy life. The strands of the Silver Braid are: 1) The survivors 2) The communities that need to help them 3) Spiritual principles We want to educate the community about this huge invisible epidemic that society turns their head the other way to and ignores that their young daughters, sisters, friends, etc. are being exploited. This needs the attention of all in our society to help break this trend that is being made to look glamorous to young girls, to runaway girl that are trying to get away from being sexually abused at home. This is a cycle of devastation. We need to stop turning our head to this problem and break this cycle. The Silver Braid is a symbol of reintegration and spiritual healing, for both the survivor and the community. �Every day, a child is exploited, every day, we look the other way. If I did not tell the truth about what happened in my lifetime as a result of my own experiences as an exploited child, it would be as if I too was looking the other way. If no one tells the truth, the exploitation will become the norm.� Anne Bissell �Children are our future and we as a society need to do what we can to protect them from falling prey to sexual assault and child exploitation.� Marie Waldrep Contact Information E-mail address Anne Bissell - Executive Director Email: [email protected] Michele Noaker - Regional Outreach/Program Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://www.marykay.com/mnoaker/default.aspx Marie Waldrep -Web Development Manager/Online Outreach Silver Braid - Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Metro Atlanta Area Email: Survivors Network [email protected] Toll Free Hotline 888-702-7273 |