Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. I hope it is a good morning for everyone. It's a great morning here. We have doctor Shelley Holdman here with us, and Safe Now is a group that you represent and tell us first of all a little bit about yourself and then it's safe now. Oh well, good morning, thank you for having me here. So my name is Shelley Holdman.
I am the president of Safe Now, been in Bartlesville now for over fourteen years and we just love this community. So safe now is an acronym for Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners for no wata O sage in Washington County. That's a whole mouthful, I know. Yeah. We provide forensic medical EXAs for victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence, child abuse, and strangulation. My goodness sake say that it's a service that's needed, and we kind of
wish what we do. Wish is in society. We wouldn't have to use the service, but it is there when trouble arrives. We're going to kind of do our best here. I'm open Mother nature really helps us out here. We've got an event that's coming up soon that draws attention to this, but we're going to put some fun into it so that folks will remember it but also remember how important it is tell us a little bit about what we have going on. Absolutely, So on Saturday, April twentieth, we'll be
hosting our seventh annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Now. The Walk Them Out Foundation was started a long time ago, and it was started as a men's march where men would walk a mile wearing red high heels and this was in solidarity with victims of sexual assault for sexual Assault Awareness Month. With his April April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It's also Child Abuse Prevention Month. So the idea is just to have fun and it makes it a fun
way to talk about a very difficult come a very difficult subject. So we want people to walk and have conversations with their kids, with their teens about sexual assault, about child abuse, about safe dating. And this will be held downtown just right there, what in Phillips Park, Right, Yes, the Frank Phillips Park which is to to to southeast Frank Phillips Boulevard, right next to the Chamber of Commerce. We just had Shelley sharing wildy in just
a little bit ago. She said they used that green space for an awful lot. So this is going to be one of those great things. Now, how do we find out about this? And how do we sign up? So to register, you can go to run sign up dot com slash okay safe Now, or you can go to our website at okaysafenow dot org. That's okaysafenow dot org and there'll be a link there to the walk.
It's twenty dollars and it's for all categories. You don't have to wear the high heels, but we have high heels you can borrow if you want to wear them, and the high hills. We have men sizes from nine to fourteen. We have all different size heels. We have from ballet slippers up to four inch heels if you want to walk in them. Well, this sounds like it's going to be a great way to draw attention to a very
very serious subject. And if I say I'm a little bit impaired and you know, walking is maybe not the best strategy between my doctors, can I just write you a big old check? You can? We are always happy to accept donations. All of the services we provide are free of charge. We never charge a victim or their families for any of our services, so
we depend on grants and donations. And you can donate on our website if you'd like again which is okay safe now, or you can send us a check in the mail our addresses on the website, or you can just come and show up to our walk and support us. There at the walk, we will have some really good pull pork sandwiches that will be available for a donation. And again, you don't have to wear the heels to walk with
us. You can wear your tennis shoes. We have some red shoe covers you can pull over your tennis shoes so you're still so you're still representing the red high heels, but you're just not wearing them. But we'll have police officers, firefighters, medical professionals. We're hoping to have the Chronicle Phillips swim team again this year, and some of those teams they actually run in the high heels. We don't recommend you run in the high heels, but they're
athletes so they can do that. And it's it's really only half a mile on the sidewalks of downtown Barnsville. It's not a whole mile, so it's it's a little a little bit more fun. Now, aren't we here go? I see, we have some great sponsors here that we'd probably like to mention, with Phillip sixty six being one of them. That's just right there
in the neighborhood. Oh yes, we've had a fabulous sponsorship for the last seven years, Phillip sixty six, Primary Care Associates, Grace Community Church, Restorations, Medical spa osahe Casino, Hotel, macanof Family Foundation, DSR Bank, First Trudy Credit, Union, City Church, Bartafield, Allons Clubs and Stride Bank. And we would like to thank all of them for being just great sponsors. Well, this is great and it's really something worth the time
and effort to be a part of and to get behind as well. Once again, you don't have to wear the high hills, but hey, you know you don't want to stand out. You don't have to be like everybody else. Go on, get into it. Walk a mile in her shoes twenty twenty four with Safe Now you've been with this group for how long? Now? I have been with a Safe now since twenty eleven, and I've
been president since twenty eighteen. My goodness, Eggs, this is a wonderful organization and it draws such attention to what many people would say is, well, we don't talk about that. Well, now it's the time that we should probably at least entertain a conversation or two, especially with your children, about what this looks like, what this is, and how this can really affect you to the negative. Sometimes it costs people their lives, other times
it's their mental and spiritual health for years, exactly exactly. And the idea behind the walk is that you don't know what someone's going through until you've walked a mile in their shoes, like your little adage says, So we have men who are willing to walk just a half mile and suffer pain just for a little bit in solidarity for the pain that victims suffer for the rest of their lives. Very good. I like the way this has been put together,
the imagery, and I really love for what it stands for. And I tell you what the area would be a poorer place without the services that your group is providing, because when this happens to anyone male, female,
adult or child. There are no answers. You're just numb, and then the pain kicks in physically and mentally and spiritually, and the person feels broken beyond repair at times, and it's nice to know that you're there to lift them up and help them and address this situation and get them on a path to a better place. Absolutely, and it's kind of the first step to
getting them some justice. We provide our services twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, so if someone has been assaulted, our nurses will come out in the middle of the night to perform that exam, try to get evidence, photo documentation, and just try to get them on the right path to healing. So you work handed hand with law enforcement groups too. We do. Yes, we work closely with the Barsfool Police Department. All of the area officers know where
we are. We are located on the hospital campus, so we work with Jane Phillips Hospital. We also work with Rey of Hope with child Advocacy Censor, other good friends of the radio station too, very good friends of our community as well. It's nice that we do have a community like this that does interlace and really walk hand in hand with one another in order to make sure that no one gets lost in the cracks. Absolutely. Absolutely. We
have a great community here and we want to keep it safe. We want to keep it a great community, but we want to make sure that things done in the dark are being brought to light, and this is a great way to do that. We don't want things to stay in the shadows, because when things stay in the shadows, they thrive. So we want to shine a light on the things that's done in the dark. That's why we want to have something fun and make it a safe way for parents to talk
with their kids about sexual assault, safe dating, domestic violence. This is going to be Saturday, April twentieth, Ladies and gentlemen, It's going to be from ten am to noon the Frank Phillips Park at two twenty two southeast Frank Phillips right there at the chamber depot. Can't miss it. And if you want to sign up, just put down there this address, run sign up all one word dot com, slash okay, safe Now and it's being brought to you by safe Now and it's called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
twenty twenty four. I want to thank you, want to thank all your volunteers and everybody on your staff and board for putting this together year in and year out. Yes, and we enjoy doing it. We enjoy our community. We have a great board. We're small, but we're mighty, and we just really love our community. Well, that is great, and once again, folks, be a part of this. Come out and support. If you can't, if you physically just can't do it, you can always
make that donation. And will you take donations at the event. We will, Yes, I'll take donations. I mean, just come on out, and even if it's just to chair somebody on while they're walking across the finish line. It's open for ages, you know, zero up to one hundred and two, So just just come on three. We're going to make you use a cane, okay, yeah, but but well anyway, it's going to be great and it's you by safe now. Doctor thank you for being
our guest. Well, thank you, thank you for having me. Do not be a stranger. We like to have you back next year around this time and demote this again. We will do it all right, thank you. We've been listening to doctor Shelley Holdman President, We're safe now and this has been our community connection on K one