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Run For It, Not From It.
Compassion Prison Project (CPP) is very pleased to announce our Inaugural Run Across America for Trauma Awareness (#RAAFTA) fundraising event in partnership with Be The Good. The objective is to run a cumulative 3,000 miles. Only by joining together can we reach our goal. Participants of all ages and abilities are welcome to run, walk, stroll or roll in the great outdoors to support this much needed cause. CPP’s mission is to transform our nation’s prisons, currently places of repetitive traumatization and isolation, into centers for healing and education. Our focus is on Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) awareness, with the intention of bringing trauma-responsive training to all prisons.
Registration is $10 with an option to also purchase a t-shirt. If you’d like to join in and the registration fee is a concern, please use the promo code “FREERAAFTA” during registration for free entry. All proceeds from the $10 registration fee and monies raised through your sponsors (friends, family, business colleagues) go directly toward supporting CPP’s mission.
Do I really have to run across America?
No. You are welcome to if you’d like, but the idea is that in working together collectively with friends, family, co-workers, and people you don’t know (yet), we can accomplish great things, like running 3,000 miles in one week, and facing adversity even when the task seems daunting. Because together we are strong.
Check out the cool shirt!
Our awesome designer, Morgan Emmess, has created yet another great logo, and you can sport it around town on your event shirt if you elect to add one to your registration. Once you get your shirt, snap some photos of yourself running, walking, rolling, or strolling on social media using the hashtag #RAAFTA.
Juneteenth
June 19th , or Juneteenth as it is known to many, is a day of celebration marking the end of African American slavery in the U.S. CPP recognizes this day as a historic moment in our country’s history when so many people finally began the process of healing from this generational trauma.
Together, We Can Reach Our Goal
The Run Across America for Trauma Awareness is an opportunity to move and enjoy nature while at the same time fundraise for a worthwhile cause. Our goal is to raise $25,000 in support of our mission of providing our incarcerated brothers and sisters with the educational and remedial tools they need to help shift the paradigm and heal from childhood and generational trauma.More FAQs
Anywhere you want it to be! Throughout the week of Saturday, June 19 to Sunday, June 27, 2021, you can run, walk, or wheelchair as many times as you’d like for as many miles as you’d like. Using the the free ItsYourRace app*, your miles will automatically be recorded and added into our cumulative event miles. You can do your runs anywhere you’d like.
*If you are unable to use the ItsYourRace app for mileage tracking, you have the ability to enter your mileage manually (on the honor system).
The IYR app syncs with the event. After you are registered, click the link below to find out more information about the mobile app and how to use it for tracking your RAAFTA event (that’s cool lingo for Run Across America For Trauma Awareness). You can also upload photos from your own personal course, or share a selfie at the end of each run/walk/roll!
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Participants will be able to go the extra mile with a personalized fundraising page to help support CPP’s mission. If you’re not up for participating but would still like to help Compassion Prison Project run our programs in prisons and transitional houses throughout the country, please consider a donation. There are 2.2 million men and women incarcerated in the United States today. 95% of them will return to our communities. We want them to return as healthy citizens, able to thrive and contribute to society in a positive way. We want to supply them with knowledge and tools to heal. We want to put an end to generational trauma.
Make a Donation Today
Once you complete your registration, a personalized fundraising page will be automatically created for you. From here you can set a fundraising goal or you can keep an open goal, and you can share your personal link with friends, family, groups, co-workers, etc. to help support the many beneficial projects at Compassion Prison Project.
