Experts from the fields of child/adult treatment and recovery show the direct correlation between child abuse/neglect and the negative societal effects struggling adult survivors have on our cultures, community and economy. This panel will include those who intervened on Ms. Milano’s behalf.
“Battles are won every day as nation is pined up against nation, tribe against tribe. I have fought countless fights as a survivor of childhood assaults. I’ve been wounded by long drawn out battles against starvation, rape, rejection, mental and emotional cruelty. Thus far, I have beaten the medical consequences of such criminal acts, putting the side effects of my past in remission. Today I thrive as one who lives by the rod of “emotional reconstructive therapy”, Unconditional Love of Self. I am living proof that positive statistic are harvested out of crimes against children. My recovery story is just a sample of the 60 million abuse survivors today.
I am still new to this world, this thing called life. I am happy to be free yet many aspects of my personal recovery are long term while others have shown effective healing by the day. I am still standing and with this story, the nakedness of my soul, I run, to bring struggling survivors from a place of Devastation to Restoration.”
This benefit documentary retraces the life of author and recovering victim of traumatic abuse, Ms. Rachel E. Milano. Her Trilogy, entitled THE MOSAIC shares her abuse recovery story and will accompany the documentary. The documentary will follow this event as well as unfolding Ms. Milano's personal recovery story, pealing back the layers of societal and cultural influences which both impeded and nurtured her recovery. She is the surviving sister to the dearly departed Heather Smith, who did not survive their child hood circumstances of abuse and neglect.
One of Ms. Milano's missions within the project is to honor her sister and all children who've died from these circumstance by memorializing her sister's unmarked grave. This documentary will reveal the National need for unified child abuse and neglect prevention using Georgia as a micro example of what is being done and what more can be done. The film features an expert panel consisting of area leaders in the war against child abuse and neglect, to include local officials, presidents of new and established organizations, laymen in the field, medical professionals and civic duty officers. These representatives will establish the need for a cohesive plan of action towards intervention on behalf of victims and struggling survivors.
· Victims of abuse, | · Community activists, |