Lavender Power is that Resilience You Have Inside

to thrive past the abuse of violence & sexual trauma

 
 
 
 
Promoting, Awareness, Victim, Empowerment
At the age of 17, Angela Rose was abducted at knifepoint outside a suburban shopping mall and assaulted by a repeat sex-offender who was on parole for murder. 
 
After being  released by her attacker, she then suffered at the hands of authorities who subjected her to  blame and additional victimization. Angela turned her anger into activism and refused to be a victim.
 
Transformed into one of the nation’s most passionate and  effective advocates for the prevention of sexual violence, Angela has lobbied for laws for victims and has promoted the importance of education on issues surrounding sexual violence.
 
She is a grassroots activist who orchestrates national protests and campaigns through the nonprofit PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, which she founded. She currently serves as PAVE’s  Executive Director 
 The tremendous impact and growth of PAVE have catapulted Angela into the national arena.
 
Angela’s work has been recognized by numerous media outlets, including CNN, NBC’s Today  Show, Time magazine, The Montel Williams Show, The John Walsh Show, America’s Most Wanted, CosmoGirl magazine, Girl’s Life magazine, and newspapers across the country.
 
 
   
 
 

 
 
 
 
 Alison Arngrim "Nellie Olson"
 Alison Arngrim, a powerful international speaker who is best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty Nellie Olson on the much loved, long running hit television series Little House On The Prairie, Alison, a sexual abuse survivor herself, testified before the California Senate regarding the critical importance of closing the incest exception loophole that decriminalized rapes when the perpetrators of those rapes were close family members of the victims.
She currently serves on the National Advisory Board of The National Association to Protect Children fighting to give children a legal and political voice in the war against child abuse.
 
 
 She has appeared on numerous television news programs discussing the legal and political issues surrounding child abuse and molestation, including Larry King Live, Nancy Grace, CNN¹s Showbiz Tonight, The Insider, Court TV and Bill O¹Reilly¹s The Factor.
 

 
 
 
 
 
Charlize Theron grew up in rural South Africa watching her alcoholic father beat her mother.
 
 
 
      When Theron was 15, her mother Gerda, to whom she remains close, shot dead her father Charles.  It happened one night when he returned from a family party in a drunken stupor, brandishing a shotgun and threatening to kill his wife and child.  After much commotion, Gerda - who was in the process of splitting from her husband - retaliated. The South African attorney general later acquitted her on the grounds of self-defense.
       Theron, who lives near her mother in Los Angeles, finds it difficult to talk about her father’s death. But she can still recall what he was like.
       For years she kept events of that fateful night hidden from the press, claiming her father died in a car crash.
Today, Charlize is the newest United Nations Messenger of Peace, turning her Academy Award-winning fame to ending violence agains women and girls around the globe.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CSA is not one group's problem; by expert accounts,
it is a silent epidemic throughout the United States,
and, indeed, the world, creating social havoc
- for the children, adult survivors, and society.  
 
It can be prevented and it can be treated,
but a conscious and sustained effort
is both missing and essential.
Pamela
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
No celebrity name is more synonymous with the fight against domestic violence than Martina McBride, currently the Spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
 
With her preternaturally large soprano voice, McBride speaks for those who can't speak for themselves and forces us to recognize situations that we'd prefer to ignore.
 
Stirring A Nation
   In 1994, she gave battered women a voice with her signature hit Independence Day about an abused woman who chooses to take matters into her own hands and told through the eyes of a young child.
 
   She again rocked the music community with her No. 1 follow-up
A Broken Wing about an emotionally abused woman who finally gets the courage to leave a disastrous relationship.
  
   She continued this theme with the touching Love's the Only House where she sings, "Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world" a message that resonates even more so today.
 
As the spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, she recorded numerous PSAs and television interviews and to help
possible victims recognize the signs of abuse, Martina distributed cards with the telling signs of abusive relationships at her concerts.
 
Martina also signed on as the spokesperson for The National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH). 1-800-799-SAFE or TTY 1-800-787-3224, provides a vital link between families in crisis and the information they need to find safety.
 
NDVH is staffed by live advocates, available year-round, 24-hours a day, and every call to the Hotline is anonymous.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
At the age of 22, Tori Amos was raped. 
 
The rape left Tori silent for many years until she saw “Thelma and Louise” in the movie theater, which triggered an emotional response in her, reminding her of her own rape. 
 
It was then that she began to heal.  Within hours, she had written Me and A Gun, an cappela song that gives the chilling account of her rape. 
 
The song has continued to have a profound impact on survivors of sexual violence, helping them find the courage to acknowledge the hurt and heal from it. 
 
 “For many years I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions, and basically just express herself.  Healing takes courage and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it!”
           – Tori Amos
Tori realized that she was ill-equipped to talk to each survivor, all of whom needed someone to speak with.  As a result, she co-founded RAINN.   
 

 
   The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.