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Central MN Sexual Assault Center

Central MN Sexual Assault Center
Event Announcement!! We have partnered with Shanti Yoga Center for a free trauma-informed Yoga class for the community. Take some time for you this Wednesday. Bring a friend! You deserve it 🐦📣🌸🌿 We want to thank all of you for supporting CMSAC and victim/survivors during SAAM. Every social media share, every cup of prevention drink bought, and everyone who attended our Walk Together: Uniting Against Trafficking event. This year’s theme, “25 Years Stronger: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” celebrates the resilience of survivors and the communities that have worked for change. Sexual violence is normalized because we live in a rape culture. Prevention involves learning about the harms from everyday behaviors, media portrayals, and societal attitudes that normalize sexual violence. On social media, in movies, and in tv shows sexual violence is often used for entertainment, shock value, or desensitizing viewers to real world consequences of sexual violence. Sexual violence is not limited to extreme cases rather embedded in social norms, language, media, etc. Recognizing these examples and challenging them when we see or hear them can help shift societal attitudes, support victims, and holds perpetrators accountable. Today our team participated in Denim Day. Denim Day is held on the last Wednesday in April, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The Peace Over Violence organization established the Denim Day campaign in 1999. Denim Day campaign was developed in response to the Italian Supreme Court ruling overturning a rape conviction. The survivor in the case was blamed for being raped, because she was wearing denim skinny jeans. During trial it was argued that she had to have helped take them off. We wear denim to raise awareness, educate, show our support to survivors, and combat victim-blaming!👖💙 Thank you all SO much for joining us on our Walk Together Uniting Against Trafficking event. Everyone played a major role in making the event successful. Thank you to our partners, sponsors, community members, volunteers, and staff. Thank you for making an impact on victims and survivors of trafficking and exploitation 🌟💟 💙There is no right way to respond to sexual violence. Assuming that someone experiencing violence can or should act a certain way is victim-blaming. Dear Survivor—Whatever you choose, know that you deserve Dear male survivors, we believe you. We understand the barriers, stigma, and misconceptions male survivors face in their healing journey. Sexual assault can happen to anyone of any gender. CMSAC provides a safe, trauma-informed environment for all ages and genders. Please reach out for support, our services are for you 320-251-4357. We are thankful for another year of partnering with Korppi for A Cup of Prevention. April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and today a portion of drink sales will be donated to victim/survivors that we serve. Stop by today before 3pm, you deserve a treat!☕🌿

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15 Riverside Drive NE Saint Cloud, MN 56304
Phone: 320.251.4357 Fax: 320.251.4670
Business Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:30am - 4:30pm

24-Hour Crisis Response Phone Lines
Email: cmsac@cmsac.org

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Services Snapshot

  • 24-Hour Crisis Phone Line
  • One-to-One Support Counseling
  • Referrals to Supportive Services
  • Hospital Advocacy
  • Court Advocacy
  • Law Enforcement Advocacy
  • Harassment Restraining Orders
  • Orders for Protection
  • Safety Planning
  • Professional Training
  • Safe at Home Program
  • Support Groups
  • Human Trafficking Services

Interpretation Services Available

LGBTQ+ Welcoming and Culturally Sensitive

TTY & Accessible

CMSAC Staff are available to meet at a variety of locations for supportive services.

Serving Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, and Wright counties.

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