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REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — In grant of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, The Reedley Police Department and the Marjaree Mason Center are bringing the assemblage unneurotic to rise consciousness of home violence.
The Marjaree Mason Center and the Reedley Police Department co-hosted a supplication vigil honoring survivors, those presently successful convulsive situations and those who person tragically mislaid their lives to home violence.
"I privation radical to cognize that you are not alone, and you are worthy of seeking retired and getting assistance for yourself and there's a full big of radical and a full big of ways to fig retired however to bash that," Nicole Linder, enforcement manager astatine the Marjaree Mason Center, said.
Joe Garza, Chief of Police for the City of Reedley, believes successful praying for victims and survivors arsenic a mode for them to find peace.
"We judge determination is powerfulness successful prayer. And by doing that and coming unneurotic arsenic a assemblage we privation to escaped our communities of home violence," Garza said.
Garza encourages those affected to talk up.
"Speak to a trusted friend. Get them to assistance you. Get them to promote you to travel to places similar Marjaree Mason Center, due to the fact that this is a, this is an enactment that volition dainty a precise confidential, you know, precise confidential," Garza said.
Linder says the center's extremity is to bring families unneurotic and foster steadfast relationships.
"We privation to equip and empower radical to not to dismember oregon disassemble families, but to say, 'How bash we make steadfast radical and steadfast families?' Because ultimately, we privation radical to emotion themselves and to beryllium capable to however to emotion radical that they privation to emotion successful a mode that is harmless and respectful," Linder said.
Alfred and Curtis Mason mislaid their sister, Marjaree Mason, for whom the halfway is named, to home violence.
"It's conscionable beautiful. I mean, it's just, it's conscionable thing that Marjaree and my parents would person wanted," Mason said.
Curtis Mason is grateful to the enactment and the assemblage for coming together.
"It's a blessing erstwhile thing antagonistic becomes thing positive. And that's what it has become, Marjaree Mason Center, with each the unit and each the radical that it has helped, has became thing positive. So, you can't inquire for thing much than that," Mason said.
For much accusation connected the Marjaree Mason Center and resources sojourn their website.
