Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the
one you trust. I hope it is a good morning for everyone. It's
a great morning here. We have doctor Shelley Holdman here with us, and
Safe Now is a group that you represent and tell us first of all a
little bit about yourself and then it's safe now. Oh well, good morning,
thank you for having me here. So my name is Shelley Holdman.
I am the president of Safe Now, been in Bartlesville now for over fourteen
years and we just love this community. So safe now is an acronym for
Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners for no wata O sage in Washington County. That's a
whole mouthful, I know. Yeah. We provide forensic medical EXAs for victims
of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence, child abuse, and strangulation.
My goodness sake say that it's a service that's needed, and we kind of
wish what we do. Wish is in society. We wouldn't have to use
the service, but it is there when trouble arrives. We're going to kind
of do our best here. I'm open Mother nature really helps us out here.
We've got an event that's coming up soon that draws attention to this,
but we're going to put some fun into it so that folks will remember it
but also remember how important it is tell us a little bit about what we
have going on. Absolutely, So on Saturday, April twentieth, we'll be
hosting our seventh annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Now. The Walk
Them Out Foundation was started a long time ago, and it was started as
a men's march where men would walk a mile wearing red high heels and this
was in solidarity with victims of sexual assault for sexual Assault Awareness Month. With
his April April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It's also Child Abuse Prevention Month.
So the idea is just to have fun and it makes it a fun
way to talk about a very difficult come a very difficult subject. So we
want people to walk and have conversations with their kids, with their teens about
sexual assault, about child abuse, about safe dating. And this will be
held downtown just right there, what in Phillips Park, Right, Yes,
the Frank Phillips Park which is to to to southeast Frank Phillips Boulevard, right
next to the Chamber of Commerce. We just had Shelley sharing wildy in just
a little bit ago. She said they used that green space for an awful
lot. So this is going to be one of those great things. Now,
how do we find out about this? And how do we sign up?
So to register, you can go to run sign up dot com slash
okay safe Now, or you can go to our website at okaysafenow dot org.
That's okaysafenow dot org and there'll be a link there to the walk.
It's twenty dollars and it's for all categories. You don't have to wear the
high heels, but we have high heels you can borrow if you want to
wear them, and the high hills. We have men sizes from nine to
fourteen. We have all different size heels. We have from ballet slippers up
to four inch heels if you want to walk in them. Well, this
sounds like it's going to be a great way to draw attention to a very
very serious subject. And if I say I'm a little bit impaired and you
know, walking is maybe not the best strategy between my doctors, can I
just write you a big old check? You can? We are always happy
to accept donations. All of the services we provide are free of charge.
We never charge a victim or their families for any of our services, so
we depend on grants and donations. And you can donate on our website if
you'd like again which is okay safe now, or you can send us a
check in the mail our addresses on the website, or you can just come
and show up to our walk and support us. There at the walk,
we will have some really good pull pork sandwiches that will be available for a
donation. And again, you don't have to wear the heels to walk with
us. You can wear your tennis shoes. We have some red shoe covers
you can pull over your tennis shoes so you're still so you're still representing the
red high heels, but you're just not wearing them. But we'll have police
officers, firefighters, medical professionals. We're hoping to have the Chronicle Phillips swim
team again this year, and some of those teams they actually run in the
high heels. We don't recommend you run in the high heels, but they're
athletes so they can do that. And it's it's really only half a mile
on the sidewalks of downtown Barnsville. It's not a whole mile, so it's
it's a little a little bit more fun. Now, aren't we here go?
I see, we have some great sponsors here that we'd probably like to
mention, with Phillip sixty six being one of them. That's just right there
in the neighborhood. Oh yes, we've had a fabulous sponsorship for the last
seven years, Phillip sixty six, Primary Care Associates, Grace Community Church,
Restorations, Medical spa osahe Casino, Hotel, macanof Family Foundation, DSR Bank,
First Trudy Credit, Union, City Church, Bartafield, Allons Clubs and
Stride Bank. And we would like to thank all of them for being just
great sponsors. Well, this is great and it's really something worth the time
and effort to be a part of and to get behind as well. Once
again, you don't have to wear the high hills, but hey, you
know you don't want to stand out. You don't have to be like everybody
else. Go on, get into it. Walk a mile in her shoes
twenty twenty four with Safe Now you've been with this group for how long?
Now? I have been with a Safe now since twenty eleven, and I've
been president since twenty eighteen. My goodness, Eggs, this is a wonderful
organization and it draws such attention to what many people would say is, well,
we don't talk about that. Well, now it's the time that we
should probably at least entertain a conversation or two, especially with your children,
about what this looks like, what this is, and how this can really
affect you to the negative. Sometimes it costs people their lives, other times
it's their mental and spiritual health for years, exactly exactly. And the idea
behind the walk is that you don't know what someone's going through until you've walked
a mile in their shoes, like your little adage says, So we have
men who are willing to walk just a half mile and suffer pain just for
a little bit in solidarity for the pain that victims suffer for the rest of
their lives. Very good. I like the way this has been put together,
the imagery, and I really love for what it stands for. And
I tell you what the area would be a poorer place without the services that
your group is providing, because when this happens to anyone male, female,
adult or child. There are no answers. You're just numb, and then
the pain kicks in physically and mentally and spiritually, and the person feels broken
beyond repair at times, and it's nice to know that you're there to lift
them up and help them and address this situation and get them on a path
to a better place. Absolutely, and it's kind of the first step to
getting them some justice. We provide our services twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, so
if someone has been assaulted, our nurses will come out in the middle of
the night to perform that exam, try to get evidence, photo documentation,
and just try to get them on the right path to healing. So you
work handed hand with law enforcement groups too. We do. Yes, we
work closely with the Barsfool Police Department. All of the area officers know where
we are. We are located on the hospital campus, so we work with
Jane Phillips Hospital. We also work with Rey of Hope with child Advocacy Censor,
other good friends of the radio station too, very good friends of our
community as well. It's nice that we do have a community like this that
does interlace and really walk hand in hand with one another in order to make
sure that no one gets lost in the cracks. Absolutely. Absolutely. We
have a great community here and we want to keep it safe. We want
to keep it a great community, but we want to make sure that things
done in the dark are being brought to light, and this is a great
way to do that. We don't want things to stay in the shadows,
because when things stay in the shadows, they thrive. So we want to
shine a light on the things that's done in the dark. That's why we
want to have something fun and make it a safe way for parents to talk
with their kids about sexual assault, safe dating, domestic violence. This is
going to be Saturday, April twentieth, Ladies and gentlemen, It's going to
be from ten am to noon the Frank Phillips Park at two twenty two southeast
Frank Phillips right there at the chamber depot. Can't miss it. And if
you want to sign up, just put down there this address, run sign
up all one word dot com, slash okay, safe Now and it's being
brought to you by safe Now and it's called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
twenty twenty four. I want to thank you, want to thank all your
volunteers and everybody on your staff and board for putting this together year in and
year out. Yes, and we enjoy doing it. We enjoy our community.
We have a great board. We're small, but we're mighty, and
we just really love our community. Well, that is great, and once
again, folks, be a part of this. Come out and support.
If you can't, if you physically just can't do it, you can always
make that donation. And will you take donations at the event. We will,
Yes, I'll take donations. I mean, just come on out,
and even if it's just to chair somebody on while they're walking across the finish
line. It's open for ages, you know, zero up to one hundred
and two, So just just come on three. We're going to make you
use a cane, okay, yeah, but but well anyway, it's going
to be great and it's you by safe now. Doctor thank you for being
our guest. Well, thank you, thank you for having me. Do
not be a stranger. We like to have you back next year around this
time and demote this again. We will do it all right, thank you.
We've been listening to doctor Shelley Holdman President, We're safe now and this
has been our community connection on K one