9th Annual CAM™ & Red Sands Event
Honoring Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR) for Community Grieving and Healing
Friday, November 14, 2025
🕐 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 UWM Electa Quinney Institute, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Guided by culturally responsive and trauma-informed care, the event will feature the Red Sand Project, an art and activism initiative that fills sidewalk cracks with red sand — symbolizing the lives lost to human trafficking, exploitation, and violence. What began as a small act of remembrance has grown into a movement for visibility, healing, and change.
🌿 Event Highlights:
Red Sand Project — community art and awareness activity
Community Hub — local Milwaukee organizations offering resources, support, and pathways for healing in navigating grief
Mobile Mental Health Clinic — HIR Wellness Institute's traveling mental health clinic staffed by licensed providers and graduate-level students offering walk-up emotional support, wellness checks, counseling surveys and assessments, providing trauma and healing informed care.
Grieving Vigil — a collective space to honor and remember loved ones
Program of Events
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Speakers & Pouring of the Red Sand
Honor the stories, voices, and teachings of Indigenous leaders and community members as we collectively pour red sand to remember and raise awareness for MMIWR.
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Community Hub of Helpers & Healers
Visit our Community Hub to connect with local organizations, receive resources, and explore pathways for release and restoration.
✨ Mobile Mental Health Clinic — Licensed mental health providers will be onsite offering walk-up support, grief acknowledgment, trauma-informed and healing informed care.
✨ Healing Activities — Experience Reiki, sound healing, art therapy, and teachings focused on coping, releasing, and healing.
Together, we will hold space for grief, resilience, and collective healing.
💞 Every dollar raised will help provide no-cost mental health care and advocacy for survivors of violence.
This is a free community event. However, we ask that you use the link below to RSVP.
Our Community Hub of Healpers and Healers
We’re honored to welcome the following Milwaukee organizations to our Community Hub — each offering meaningful resources, support, and healing pathways for those navigating grief and seeking connection.
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Our Community Supporters
Thanks to their generous donations, they're helping us.... We’re honored to recognize the following community partners whose collaboration and support help make this event possible. Each organization plays a vital role in uplifting our communities and expanding pathways for healing, connection, and collective care.
