Journey to Healing Program

01/13/2026

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01/13/2026

Today is Amber Alert Day

Today is AMBER Alert Awareness Day, which honors the memory of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, TX on January 13, 1996.

Since the origination of the national initiative, more than 1,290 children have been successfully recovered as a direct result of the AMBER Alert Program.

To learn about Michigan's AMBER Alert plan, visit michigan.gov/msp/services/alerts.

01/13/2026

Earlier hours at Boys and Girls Club for OCS students

Club Fam!
We will be open THIS Wednesday (1/14) and Thursday (1/15) from 12pm-6:30pm and THIS Friday (1/16) from 12pm - 5pm because of of the half days at OCS.
We also like to give a friendly reminder that Club members must attend school the day they attend Club.

01/12/2026

Free Sledding in SSM

❄️🛷 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭! Little Free Sled Libraries located at Brady Park and Chandler Park, the libraries house sleds and saucers for you to use - 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 𝙊𝙁 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙍𝙂𝙀!

01/12/2026

Good to know...

If you’ve ever Googled your own name, you might have seen sites in search results that said that they “found” you, or offered information from a background check. Those sites are data brokers - sites that let the user search for information on specific people, phone numbers, or addresses.

Removing information from data brokers is mostly a preventative step to increase privacy and stop an abuser, stalker, or harasser from accessing your personal information.

Learn more at https://www.techsafety.org/data-brokers

If you are experiencing domestic or s*xual violence Call/text 1-844-7NATIVE or chat with an advocate at strongheartshelpline.org 24/7

01/12/2026

Happening Tonight!

Jig painting tonight 5-7pm at Waishkey Bay Farm! 🐟

01/08/2026

Studies show that 1 in 2 Native American women have experienced stalking in their lifetime. That number alone should stop us. But what makes it even more dangerous is how invisible stalking often is. It is dismissed as “harassment,” minimized as “drama,” or ignored until it escalates into violence. Stalking is a precursor to domestic violence, s*xual assault, and homicide — yet resources remain painfully limited.

Just as there are little to no domestic violence, s*xual assault, or human trafficking safe-house shelters in or near many tribal communities, there is also a huge unmet demand for stalking-specific resources. Survivors are often left to navigate fear, surveillance, intimidation, and psychological harm on their own — without culturally safe support, legal advocacy, or prevention programs rooted in our communities.

We also need to name a hard truth: some stalking and harassment comes from within our own communities. Lateral violence — harm directed at one another as a result of unresolved trauma, colonization, and systemic oppression — is real. When it goes unaddressed, it can show up as harassment, stalking, intimidation, and coordinated harm, sometimes even between Native women. Naming this is not about blame. It is about healing what was never meant to be normalized.

Colonization disrupted our systems of care, accountability, and protection. It fractured relationships and taught survival through silence. But silence does not keep us safe — community care does. Healing requires resources, education, accountability, and culturally grounded prevention led by Native people themselves.

Stalking is not “less serious” because it doesn’t leave bruises. It leaves fear. Hypervigilance. Isolation. And lasting trauma. Our people deserve safety, dignity, and support — before harm escalates.

If this resonates with you, share this post. Awareness can interrupt harm. Visibility can save lives.

01/07/2026

Seasonal produce to look for in January

01/07/2026

S*x trafficking rarely begins with kidnapping by a stranger, instead most victims are groomed and exploited by someone they know and may even love.
From January 2020 through August 2022, data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline showed that in s*x trafficking situations where the relationship to their trafficker was disclosed:
44% of s*x trafficking victims were trafficked by a family member
39% of s*x trafficking victims were trafficked by an intimate partner

01/07/2026

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