OCTOBER 2024 EVENTS

Scarecrow Madness October 2024
Judging begins: October 14, 2024
Winners Announced: October 21, 2024
for a google map of participating locations, please click here

NOVEMBER 2024 EVENTS

DECEMBER 2024 EVENTS

GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past 11 years, this idea has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Please DONATE here on December 3, 2024!

JANUARY 2025 EVENTS

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APRIL 2025 EVENTS

The ENTIRE month of April: Flushing Out Violence
#ibelieve #flushingoutviolence

Be on the lookout for our purple & teal toilet! Why purple & teal? Purple is the color for Domestic Violence Awareness. Teal is the color for Sexual Violence Awareness.

Your donation to ASSIST Indiana has an immediate impact on prevention, advocacy, and healing the survivors we serve. Get your pic with the toilet, post to social media (don’t forget to tag ASSIST and #flushingoutviolence), then send the toilet on to help flush out violence! To sign up to get a pic with the toilet and help support survivors of violence in your community contact Tracy at tracy@assistindiana.org.

DONATE to the Flushing Out Violence campaign

You can pay $30 to send the toilet to a friend, business, company, local office, or community partner (and even remain anonymous if you wish). Once the toilet is received you have a couple of different options:

$50 Take it Away

$75 To take it away and send to a friend

$100 Insurance (take it away, send it to a friend, and ensure it doesn’t come back to you this year!)

SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

DENIM DAY

Wear denim to support sexual assault survivors!

Contact tracy@assistindiana.org for denim ribbons!

The Denim Day story begins in Italy in 1992, when an 18-year old girl was raped by the 45-year old driving instructor who was taking her to her very first driving lesson. He took her to an isolated road, pulled her out of the car, removed her jeans and forcefully raped her.

She reports the rape and the perpetrator is arrested and prosecuted. He is then convicted of rape and sentenced to jail. Years later, he appealed the conviction claiming that they had consensual sex. The Italian Supreme Court overturned the conviction and the perpetrator was released. A statement from the Court argued that because the victim was wearing very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was not rape but consensual sex. This became known throughout Italy as the “jeans alibi.”

Enraged by the verdict, the women in the Italian Parliament launched a protest wearing jeans on the steps of the Supreme Court. This protest was picked up by international media which inspired the California Senate and Assembly to do the same on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento. Patti Occhiuzzo Giggans, Executive Director of Peace Over Violence, saw this in the media and thought everyone should be wearing jeans to protest all of the myths about why women and girls are raped. Denim Day in LA was born. The first Denim Day in LA event was held in April of 1999, and has continued annually since.

for more information about Denim Day please visit: https://denimday.org/

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SEPTEMBER 2025 EVENTS

Dancing with the Johnson County Stars 2024:
Featuring Tammi Hickman

Join ASSIST Indiana, along with some other amazing organizations in Johnson County for Dancing with the Johnson County Stars at the Artcraft Theater
2025 Dates TBD

Friday, (preview show) – adults $10; children $5
Saturday, (main event, ticket includes a beverage & popcorn) – adults $30; children $15