Casino Night

Avalon Healing Center’s Casino Night Hits The Jackpot!

Avalon Healing Center hosted a Vegas style Casino Night fundraiser event on Saturday, February 15th, 2025, at our Detroit healing center located at 601 Bagley Street.  We invited community partners, major donors, prospective donors, and campaign cabinet members. This event helped support the services and programming for survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking. Avalon Healing Center is the largest …

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month

Governor Whitmer Appoints Kimberly Hurst to Human Trafficking Commission

Big Shout out to our fearless leader, founder and Executive Director, Kimberly Hurst, who has been appointed to the Human Trafficking Commission for the State of Michigan! 💙 Below is the press release put out by State of Michigan – Executive Office of the Governor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 23, 2024 Contact: press@michigan.gov LANSING, Mich. — Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer …

Full Avalon Logo in Teal

WC SAFE Rebrands to Avalon Healing Center

PRESS RELEASE: December 8, 2020 Contact: Katie Smith ksmith@avalonhealing.org / kmichael@wcsafe.org Detroit, Michigan – Formerly known as Wayne County Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program (WC SAFE), Avalon Healing Center is excited to share their brand refresh with their communities. “The rebrand comes out of a need to better represent the work we do and who we do it for, and …

2019 Arthur Johnson Community Leadership Award is presented to Kimberly Hurst for WC SAFE.

PAS alumna-led organization for sexual assault victims wins award at MLK Tribute

See original article as shared by Wayne State University Kimberly Hurst, who earned her master’s in physician assistant studies from the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2001, was presented with a Dr. Arthur L. Johnson Community Leadership Award at Wayne State University’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, at the Max M. and Marjorie S. …