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 …

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. …

Kimberly Hurst, founder and executive director of Wayne County Safe, poses on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at the Wayne County Safe office in Detroit. (Photo: Rachel Woolf, Special to the Free Press)

Women: Trump budget cuts could victimize us again

View Original Detroit Free Press Article written by KRISTEN JORDAN SHAMUS Organizations that collect evidence for rape kits and offer crisis counseling to victims of domestic and sexual violence are bracing for the possibility of deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s federal budget plan. The leaders of three of Michigan’s largest victim-advocacy organizations — Wayne County SAFE, Turning Point and HAVEN — say they’re scrambling …

image of evidence collection kit

What Happened to Detroit’s Untested Rape Kits?

Read Original Free Press Article Here Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy speaks openly about being sexually assaulted while she attended college at Notre Dame. Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press Thousands of boxes of evidence sat untested in a Detroit Police Department storage unit for years as the rapists whose DNA was inside roamed free. More than 11,300 were left there, …