9th Annual CAM™ & Red Sands Event

9th Annual CAM™ & Red Sands Event

Honoring Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR) for Community Grieving and Healing

Friday, November 14, 2025
🕐 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 UWM Electa Quinney Institute, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Join us for HIR Wellness Insititute's 9th Annual CAM™ & Red Sands Event, a community gathering event dedicated to honoring Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR). This powerful day centers collective grieving, healing, and action — bringing together families, survivors, and community members to remember loved ones, raise awareness, and stand in solidarity for justice and healing.

Guided by culturally responsive and trauma-informed care, the event will feature the Red Sand Project, an art and activism initiative that fills sidewalk cracks with red sand — symbolizing the lives lost to human trafficking, exploitation, and violence. What began as a small act of remembrance has grown into a movement for visibility, healing, and change.

🌿 Event Highlights:

• Red Sand Project — community art and awareness activity
• Community Hub — local Milwaukee organizations offering resources, support, and pathways for healing in navigating grief
• Mobile Mental Health Clinic — HIR Wellness Institute's traveling mental health clinic staffed by licensed providers and graduate level students offering walk-up emotional support, wellness checks, counseling surveys and assessments, providing trauma and healing informed care
  Grieving Vigil — collective space to honor and remember loved ones
  
  Program of Events

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Speakers & Pouring of the Red Sand
Honor the stories, voices, and teachings of Indigenous leaders and community members as we collectively pour red sand to remember and raise awareness for MMIWR.

2:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Community Hub of Helpers & Healers
Visit our Community Hub to connect with local organizations, receive resources, and explore pathways for release and restoration.

✨ Mobile Mental Health Clinic — Licensed mental health providers will be onsite offering walk-up support, grief acknowledgment, trauma-informed and healing informed care.
✨ Healing Activities — Experience Reiki, sound healing, art therapy, and teachings focused on coping, releasing, and healing.

Together, we will hold space for grief, resilience, and collective healing.

💞 Every dollar raised will help provide no-cost mental health care and advocacy for survivors of violence.