Blue: Child Abuse

Purple: Domestic Violence

Teal: Sexual Assault

DuPage County’s 18th Annual

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

October 2, 2010

4pm – 8:30pm Central Park

104 E. Benton Ave. in Naperville

(this event is free and open to the public and will occur rain or shine!)

The purpose of Take Back the Night is to raise awareness of the problems of child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault, prevent future violence, and empower survivors of abuse.

4:00pm -Browse booths by local organizations and displays including The Silent Witness figures, The Clothesline Project, and listen to live music

5:30pm –Keynote speaker- Rhonda Abraham

6:15pm -Survivor Speak-Out and rally

7:30pm -March through downtown Naperville

       8:15pm -Closing ceremony by candlelight

For more info contact:

Casey Wegner at 1-815-690-2772 or c.wegner@comcast.net

If you represent an agency and would like a table at TBTN please contact Denise

at denisegcantrall@mac.com

Download a flyer click here.

Event Sponsors include: YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago-West Suburban Center, Family Shelter Service, College of DuPage, Naperville Police Department, Teen Parent Connection, Hamdard Health and Human Services, Breaking Free, DuPage County National Organization for Women, Linden Oaks at Edward, Naperville North Feminist Roundtable, PAVE, and many more local organizations and private donors!

Mission Statement: To raise awareness of the problems of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse, prevent future assaults, and empower survivors of such abuse; to educate DuPage County and its environs; to end sexual violence by sponsoring rallies, vigils, speak-outs, parades, media interviews, the Clothesline Project, letters to the editor, press releases, and other events and activities; to raise funds to educate the community to end sexual violence; and to lend its name, staff and/or volunteers in coalition with government, private and public agencies, and with other groups who are in accordance with our mission statement.