Mental health center plans awareness events

CARIBOU – April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Aroostook Mental Health Center’s Sexual Trauma and Recovery Services will participate in a campaign to promote community awareness, including the following programs:

. “The Clothesline Project”, a visual display that bears witness to the sexual violence against women, will be featured at the following locations: April 1-7, at Houlton Regional Hospital; April 8-14, at the University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Cyr Hall; and April 19-26, at the Aroostook Centre Mall.

The display consists of T-shirts decorated to represent a particular woman’s experience, either by the woman herself or someone who cares about her. The T-shirts are hung on a clothesline for public display.

. “Take Back the Night” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Houlton, Presque Isle, and Fort Kent, features people participating in a candlelight march through a charted route in each community. Speak-outs during which victims express their experience through skits, poetry, dance, or music, will follow the marches.

For information, call Stan Pettegrow at 768-3304.