Kimberly Hurst, founder of Avalon Healing Center, was recognized as a Game Changer by the Detroit Red Wings during the March 2025 Women’s History Month’s Ilitch Sports + Entertainment Game Changers series, celebrating impactful Detroit leaders. Read more on NHL.com https://www.nhl.com/redwings/news/kimberly-hurst-named-women-s-history-month-game-changers-honoree
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 …
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 …
‘I love when I’m not asked’ spray painted on Detroit sexual assault nonprofit
See original article on WXYZ.com by Ruta Ulcinaite DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Avalon Healing Center is a Detroit nonprofit that offers counseling, therapy and medical examinations free of charge to sexual assault survivors. Over Labor Day weekend in the middle of the day, they were vandalized. An individual can be seen on video surveillance walking up to the building. The …
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 …
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. …