Breaking The Silence 5K & 10K Joplin

Breaking The Silence 5K & 10K Joplin Empowering communities to breakthrough all of the statistics associated with child s3xual abuse. A statistic that's reached from only the 38% that disclose.

The beautiful thing about community is when people can come together from the bottom places of their stories, when they decide to rise up beyond the fear, beyond the shame and beyond the tough miles. Making it together to their finish line, their voice, their truth and their freedom. The strength was in them all along, they just had to see it was possible. Breaking the Silence to Sexual Abuse 5K &

10K is an opportunity for our community to join together as survivors & supporters to unite against a crime occurring to 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys by the time they reach 18 years of age. The problem is bigger than we realize. It is one of the most prevalent health problems facing children. Through awareness we can protect them and give survivors freedom from their silence and shame. We invite you to be a part of the impact. Join us for a pre-race speaker, live singer, awards, post-race snacks and resources! Our charity of choice for 2022 is Rapha International. A not-for-profit organization that combats human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Rapha has aftercare campuses in Cambodia, Thailand and Haiti. Registration includes *race shirt and finishing medal. This run is for all fitness levels!

03/13/2025

I haven't had the words to make this announcement which is why it's taken me a bit. I still am not sure that I do.
Unfortunately, last year was our last Breaking the Silence race event.
It has been a VERY difficult decision for both Cristy and I, honestly we tried to make it one more year but it's just not feasible. The months, time, and resources that goes into planning was something that we gave 100% of ourselves to, and something the event and this amazing community deserves, and we wouldn't want to give anything less.
We are honored that the community gave us 9 years of support, hugs, time, resources, tears, memories, joy, sweat, and most of all COURAGE.

While I compiled this video, tears came to my eyes as I think back to how we started. The crippling fear before the first race in 2016, not knowing if anyone would even show up, but they did. YOU did. And as each of us broke our own silence, we watched the courage become contagious.
That's what we want each of you to remember.
The fear is a liar, you have never been and will never be alone. We will always be with you. And the child in you deserves to be heard.

We thank each brave survivor, we've kept all the thank you's, the messages, the texts. We thank our amazing sponsors all these years, many of you supported this year after year. We thank all the volunteers, we could never have done this without you. We thank Children's Center of Southwest Missouri, Rapha International, and Blackbox International for the partnerships over all of these years. We thank our friends and family for showing up in all the weather conditions, bright and early to be thrown into a volunteer position.

We thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts for 9 amazing years that changed lives for MANY people.

Keep up the fight, keep breaking the silence because children need YOU.

"For the first time ever, I can look at my story and...I'm okay with it. If what happened to me happened so I could meet you and see what you've done with it, so that I could believe I could do something powerful too, and maybe there's someone out there right now begging for someone, anyone to speak to them and let them know... ya know what? She did it, I can too." — Survivor

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