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​

​​

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.