Backup Documents 04/12/2022 Item # 4E 4E
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) uplifts year-round efforts that call
attention to the prevalence of sexual violence and its widespread impacts, while promoting
responses that lead to positive cultural change; and
WHEREAS, the theme of this year's SAAM campaign in Florida is "Centering Survivors in
Community, Care & Change." This theme focuses on holistic support of survivors. Recognizing
victim experiences and needs vary and so too should the assistance for them; and
WHEREAS, this theme invites community members to center the margins and elevate the
voices and needs of those who face additional barriers to accessing care. We must champion
survivor-supportive responses and services that are culturally responsive and look at the
individual as a whole being; and
WHEREAS, Project HELP, Inc. provides confidential, trauma-focused services to survivors of
sexual violence regardless of when the victimization occurred and whether the assault was
reported to law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, addressing sexual violence involves citizen engagement and action. When you
amplify the efforts of our local sexual assault program, you are promoting our community's
message to survivors that services are here; and
WHEREAS, Project HELP, Inc. joins the Collier County Sheriff's Office, the State Attorney's
Office 20th Judicial Circuit, and advocates and communities across the State of Florida in
raising awareness about sexual violence, centering the needs of those who have been harmed,
and advancing equitable support for every survivor;
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, that April 2022 be designated as
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 12T1 Day of April, 2022.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER CO, , FLORIDA
s .
WIL AM L. MCDANIEL, JR.,'GHAI ' AN