Photos: Tribe participates in Child Abuse Awareness Month Community Health News by The Seminole Tribune - May 4, 2023September 19, 2024 From left to right are Big Cypress Advocacy & Guardianship employees Allicia Jordan (Spiderman), Felicia Duncan (Ironman), Tracey Collins (Hulk), Angela Hardwick (Black Panther) and Brittany Zulauf (Black Panther). (Courtesy Winstera Young) Tribal members and tribal employees participated in a number of events across the reservations to mark Child Abuse Awareness Month in April. The Advocacy & Guardianship Department hosted a series of community events to mark the occasion. Participants were encouraged to wear blue, a favorite sports team jersey or shirt, their favorite superhero apparel, and to “put a cap” on child abuse by wearing a favorite hat, among other themes. A week’s worth of events usually culminates with the “Child Abuse Awareness Community Walk” and ice cream social in Hollywood, Big Cypress, Brighton and Immokalee. However those events, the first since the pandemic, and what would have been the first-ever walk in Lakeland, were cancelled due to inclement weather. For “be a hero” day, the Advocacy program visited the tribe’s preschools while wearing superhero outfits. They read books and sang songs with the children. In addition, the Advocacy program visited the children housed in the youth home on the Big Cypress Reservation. Advocacy & Guardianship staff visit the youth home on the Big Cypress Reservation. (Courtesy Winstera Young) From left to right are Advocacy & Guardianship employees Felicia Duncan, Cierra Evans and Allicia Jordan. Advocacy & Guardianship employees pose as “Charlie’s Angels.” They are Auna McCagh, at left, Deona Rodriguez, middle, and Mary Olitzky, at right. (Courtesy Winstera Young) From left to right are Advocacy & Guardianship employees Lauren Deans, Debra Ray and Mildred Ibarra. (Courtesy Winstera Young) Health and Human Services Department employees for the Tampa Reservation are, from left to right, Chris Nicely, Deona Rodriguez, Auna McCagh and Korin Deitch. (Courtesy Winstera Young) Hollywood Advocacy & Guardianship employees are, from left to right, Winstera Young, Debra Ray and Vanessa Golaub-Turner. (Courtesy Winstera Young) Brighton Reservation nursing staff donned their superhero apparel. From left to right are Tawnya Massey, Michelle Hazellief, Niki Brown, Tara McKenna and Lindsay Bullard. (Courtesy Winstera Young) Share on Facebook Share Share on TwitterTweet Share on Pinterest Share Share on LinkedIn Share Share on Digg Share