Join the volunteer team who will be part of making the
"Reaching Out: America" Child Abuse Monument
a reality.
Contact Janice Caine-Brewster below.
For Stephen, “My participation
in the Monument Project has been the single single most
healing and influential event of my life.”
Dr. Michael C. Irving and Janice Caine-Brewster on trailer
as the Canadian Reaching Out Child Abuse Monument arrives
at the artist's home in Toronto.
Visit the Quilt Square
Meditation Pools
CHAINS THAT BIND
LIES THAT BLIND
A LIFE OF STRUGGLE
TO SET ME FREE
My father was abused and I
wasn't. The cycle stopped.
The dawn of a new generation,
The dawn of new hope.
Let tomorrow's sun set
on an era of peace.
Zachary
I SEE
I DREAM
I HOPE
Gintes
The Little Girl
The little girl all alone,
Alone with her secrets,
Scared to speak or even feel.
She only sees the emptiness
That surrounds her heart,
And the secret she wishes
to be able to speak.
"Please Love me!"
But now she sees a hand,
A hand of the future,
One full of caring laughter,
And love.
It's her hand, and she
is Not Alone!
L.
My Desire:
That the people on this Monument
Always be seen as Courageous
Pioneers in the Successful struggle
To end child abuse
Wallace Clint
Launching of a Monument
Reaching Out: America,
a dream of Dr. Irving for two decades, came to life
when Janice Caine-Brewster of Oakland California invited
Dr. Michael C. Irving, Ph.D. to adapt the success
of the Canadian Child Abuse Survivor Monument Project
to a child abuse memorial/monument in the US.
A Reaching Out Dream
On April 20, 2007 Janice wrote to Dr.
Irving, "I am a survivor of child abuse. I am
writing to you because I am thrilled about the work
you are doing. I want my work in the world to be about
something bigger. I want my life to have counted for
something much larger than myself."
A month later, on May 30, Janice wrote
again, "I have been sending out letters with
requests for handprints to many homes for abused children
throughout the United States and am overwhelmed at
the response I am getting. It is wonderful. This is
a very powerful message of hope ..."
In seeing the enormous support and
interest she was receiving in contacting survivor
support groups over the next two months Janice wrote
again, "I know that your monument will be in
two places....one in Canada and one in the United
States. I visualize and I pray and I have faith in
knowing that something much larger than ourselves
is at work here."
Janice became fully committed to seeing
the reality of a National Child Abuse Monument happening
in the US and the birth of a dream became the reality
of intention.
Building
on Experience and Success
American sculptor and
psychotherapist, Dr. Michael C. Irving, successfully
developed the Child Abuse Survivor Monument Project
in Canada from 1990 though 2008.
The creation of a "Reaching
Out: America" Child Abuse Monument will use the
same approach to making quilt squares and HandPrints
for collaborative inclusion in the American version
of the "Reaching Out Series".
Creating
"Reaching Out: America's" Team
Janice Caine-Brewster became
Chair of Friends of "Reaching Out: America"
and is working to create a network and supportive
community that will see to the success of creating
Reaching Out: America The Child Abuse Monument.
She found there with other who
shared her dream and were willing to donate time,
resources and funds.
Activities for "Reaching Out:
America" Team
Gather HandPrints for placement
inside the Monument figures
Seek Internet Links and Postings
Raise Funds for Monument Creation
and Community Outreach
Janice Caine-Brewster, Chair
Friends of "Reaching Out: America"
To Join the
"Reaching Out: America"
Child Abuse Monument Team Contact:
Janice Caine-Brewster
37 Bay Park Terrace
Alameda, California 94502 artist@reddingmgt.com
510-851-0410
Upon the monument's completion
the Friends of "Reaching Out: America will seek
ways of employing the power of the Reaching Out: America
Child Abuse Monument to effect healing and change
around concerns of child abuse survivors and child
abuse prevention in America.
One way to be part of the "Reaching
Out: America" Team is to make a HandPrint for placement
inside the bronze monument figures and to ask others to make
HandPrints as well.
Di made a HandPrint she wrote in a blog, "I did it.
Somehow it was one of the most therapeutic things
I've done. It's so simple. Sometimes simple is best.
I no longer feel alone...I am part of a community, maybe one
I'd rather not have been in, but since I am I've realized
I couldn't be prouder to be associated with survivors. We
are awesome people." Click on any of the HandPrints
below to find out how you can contribute your own HandPrint
for Dr. Irving to place inside the "Reaching Out: America"
Monument figures.
REACH OUT
Heal the path.
Your pain is Society's
Shame. .
Touch the Rainbow.
REACHING OUT Against child abuse. Cynthia
Mike it possible. Help us stop the hooror.
REACH OUT for yourself. Kat
REACHING OUT Against Child Abuse. Allison
Let
your HandPrint join others in the MONUMENT
REACHING OUT Against Child Abuse Stop the Abuse
Jenna
