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ATTENTION ALL GOLFERS and FANS!
Your Chance to WIN Four (4) Tickets
AT&T Pebble Beach Nat'l Pro Am - FEB 8 - 14, 2010 
THREE separate chances to win (4) tickets to the AT&T Pebble Beach Nat'l Pro Am Feb 8-14th, 2010. A $600 value. 7 days/3 courses. Raffle tickets are 5 for $100.00 -or- $25 each. Raffle tickets are available at Operation Care, 621 New York Ranch Road, Jackson, CA 95642 (209-223-2897), Gold Rush Ranch Golf and Ranch Resort, 20 Eureka Street, Sutter Creek, CA, tel: 209-267-9017 or 209-267-1441, or Castle Oaks Golf Club, 1000 Castle Oaks Drive · Ione, CA, tel: 209-274-0167. Drawing to be held at 4pm on Monday, February 1st. Don't miss this opportunity... All raffle proceeds go to support Operation Care programs and services for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
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Mule Creek Inside Out Art Show & Saleon November 7th raised $10,000 to help victims! THANK YOU to the inmates for their beautiful work, and to all of those participants who purchased items!
Operation Care participates in many awareness campaigns throughout the year. Some of those include:
February
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month.
April
Sexual Assault Awareness Month / Denim Days / Human Ribbon
Child Abuse Prevention Month
October
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Take the PLEDGE Against Domestic Violence
2009 Press Release - Purple People Tell their Stories - 30 life-sized purple silhouettes of women, children, men, and even a dog....
2009 STORIES (English)
2009 STORIES (Spanish)
2008 Purple People - Lifesize silouettes of women, men and children, and their real stories: Ledger-Dispatch article 9/30/08 ... 2008 STORIES (pdf)
Don’t Be Quiet – Speak Out – Take Action
April
April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout April, Operation Care and Amador County’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Committee organize a series of events to help every member of our community decide to end sexual violence. The goal is to encourage everyone in Amador County to learn about sexual violence, how to help prevent it, and how to help survivors heal.
“We are inviting all employees of local non-profit organizations, civic government and other employers to help recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month”, said Lynn Shield, Executive Director of Operation Care. “We are asking employers to allow their staff to break the dress code and the silence by wearing jeans during the month of April, and especially on Denim Day, Wednesday April 22nd.”
Why Denim?
Wearing jeans during April is a symbol of protest of harmful attitudes about rape in response to an Italian Supreme Court decision to overturn a rape conviction because the victim wore jeans. The judge said that the victim would have had to help the perpetrator to remove the jeans, therefore it was not rape. “Even though this case was in Italy several years back, a National campaign was developed to bring awareness to the fact that coercion, threats and force are a part of the act of rape,” said Shield. “We have joined National efforts to ‘Decide to End Sexual Violence’.”
During the month of April, “Why Denim?” posters will be displayed throughout the county to increase public awareness, and denim pins will be distributed at various locations to wear on Denim Day.
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Human Ribbon to Raise Awareness
POSTPONED TO TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH DUE TO RAIN
April 1, 2009 – Amador County – On April 8th, a teal-colored Human Ribbon will be making the rounds throughout Amador County encouraging community to take action toward building healthy and respectful relationships. Watch for her in Jackson, Sutter Creek, Pine Grove, Pioneer, Ione, Plymouth, and other locations throughout the county. The Human Ribbon will be accompanied by an advocate from Operation Care to answer questions and ask people to take action and speak out against sexual violence. They will be handing out teal ribbons to tie on the car antenna to show your support.
April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The FBI and the Journal of Traumatic Stress estimate that one-in-three women, one in four girls, one in six boys and one in eleven men will be victims of sexual assault at least once in their lives. In Amador County alone, 29 rapes were reported to Law Enforcement in 2007. This does not account for the rapes that went unreported primarily due to the survivor’s fear about what other people might think. Operation Care provides hospital response, advocacy, accompaniment, and peer counseling for survivors. Last year, 10 rape victims were accompanied by Operation Care’s advocates to U.C. Davis for sexual assault medical exams. Crisis intervention and peer counseling was provided for an additional 42 sexual assault victims.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a great time to join others in Amador County, the state and the nation to Decide to End Sexual Violence. Don’t be quiet. Speak Out. Take Action. Build healthy relationships—not just in romantic or sexual relationships, but also as friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and community members. How we interact with each other, and creating an atmosphere of support about the fact that sexual violence exists, are the next steps toward healthy respectful relationships and communities. We can all do something to end sexual violence! By taking action, healing can begin, justice is possible, and an end to fear can be imagined. When we collectively Decide to End Sexual Violence, we will have taken the first step toward a future without sexual violence together.
For more information call Operation Care at (209) 223-2897. If you or someone you know needs help, call 911 or call the 24-hour crisis line at (209) 223-2600 or (800) 675-3392 to talk to a counselor.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Tie a Purple Ribbon
October -Amador County -- October is nationally recognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. During October, purple ribbons and posters declaring “Peace Begins at Home” will be distributed around Amador County by Operation Care. Baskets filled with purple ribbons to wear or to attach to your car antenna will also be placed at many local merchants and business offices.
The purple ribbon is a unifying symbol of courage, survival, honor, and dedication to ending domestic violence. In addition to the demonstration of support for all victims, the display of purple ribbons throughout the community conveys a powerful message that there’s no place for domestic violence in the homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, or schools of its citizens.
Domestic violence is the use or threat of using physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual abuse with the intent of controlling someone by instilling fear and using intimidation. The problems of domestic violence are not confined to any group or groups of people, but cross all economic, racial, sexual orientation, and social barriers. There are several types of abuse:
- Physical Abuse: Verbal threats of violence, pushing, shoving, hitting, slapping, punching, pinching, biting, kicking, holding down, pinning against a wall, chocking, throwing objects, breaking objects, punching walls, driving recklessly to scare, blocking exits and using weapons.
- Emotional/Verbal Abuse: Name calling, threats, criticizing, yelling, humiliating, isolation, economic abuse (controlling finances, preventing victim from working), threatening to hurt children or pets, stalking.
- Sexual Abuse: Unwanted touching, sexual name calling, false accusations of sexual infidelity, forced sex, unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, HIV transmission.
Where to go for Help:
If you or someone you know needs help, dial 911 or call the 24-hour crisis line at 209-223-2600. Operation Care provides safe shelter for women, men, and children, as well as counseling, support services, crisis intervention, and education. For more information, to make a contribution, to volunteer your services, or to obtain purple ribbons for your group, office, or organization, please call 209-223-2897.
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