June 2025 Newsletter

Marketing CRC
Sep 28, 2023
4 min read

Updated: Jul 14

June 2025 Newsletter

VROOM! VROOM! It's time to get up and get out

Are you ready??? The Third Annual HEMAD BIKER RIDE. Big news this year the ride will have 2 launch sites - Tom Mayer and the Twin Cities Men's Center will launch the ride in Minnesota and we will launch for Milwaukee Harley Davison here. The Blaine Harley Davison will be the launch site for Minnesota. We are looking forward to add more states. If you are interested in launching a ride in your state or city contact Tina at 414-231-3058

We are so excited to share that Patrick McSweeney is the recepient of the Public Relations Society of America Platinum Award from the Midwest District to be presented at conference later this month. Patrick is the Director of Outreach for the HEMAD PROJECT and has designated Convergence Resource Center as the recipient of the donation accompanying the award. Mr McSweeney also serves on the Advisory Board for Convergence Resource Center. He volunteers whenever possible and really appreciate all that he does. CONGRATULATIONS PATRICK and THANKS FOR THE DONATION!

SERVICE SPOTLIGHT

UNLOCKING THE WOUNDED HEART

Dr Lassiter is facilitating Unlocking The Wounded Heart by Priscilla Lack on Mondays at 12pm. You must be a registered client of Convergence Resource Center to attend.

Unlocking the Wounded Heart is a long-term weekly support group addressing past trauma. A guide to emotional healing by someone that has lived through it. Mrs Lack resided in Wisconsin for a number of years and recently relocated to Illinois.

Human Trafficking and The Male Victim

Men are assumed to be perpetrators, not victims—leading to shame, self-denial, and reluctance to seek assistance. Men and boys comprise a larger portion of all human trafficking survivors but we don't see the number of services and support to match. This year join us as we hear from two mothers with sons that had the lived experience of human trafficking and suffered violent acts. The event will be September 20th at the UWM Continuing Education Center on Wisconsin Avenue. Our speakers are Decembre Pierce (Georgia) and Lisa McCormick (Wisconsin). The dynamic stories of these two ladies will share information you really don't want to miss. September 20, 2025 at 9am we will be at the UWM Continuing Education Center on Wisconsin Avenue - go to our website for details. Registration Opens July 1st - space is limited

CEU's have been applied for

Ms. Pierce endured an unimaginable tragedy with the loss of her only

biological son, Parrish Pierce Jr., whose life was taken in a violent incident, betrayed by a close friend, after a history of resilience through trauma, including childhood kidnapping and trafficking. This profound loss further strengthened her resolve to advocate against kidnapping,

trafficking, and gang violence and to raise awareness for young males impacted by trauma. She partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as well as other organizations, to share both her and her son's story and to help educate families on coping and healing from such devastating events.

Lisa McCormick’s son, Jeffrey, was trafficked before he died of a drug overdose over 3 years ago at the age of 17. “What we can go out and do is to be able to go out and help people understand what the signs are and the signals that are out there. And then when we recognize them we can do something about it and try to get help for those that need it,” said McCormick.

We need your help to keep this event free for anyone that would like to attend.

Join us for The Epidemic and The Game fundraiser at EL Tenampa Restaurant on

Friday Sept 5th from 10am to close. We are also looking for sponsors.

Contact Dr Lassiter at 414-231-3058 or email us at crccontactus@convergenceresource.org

1st Annual HEMAD Classic Car Cruise

Saturday October 25th, 2025

see our website for more info

NEW HEMAD FACILITATOR

Welcome to our newest HEMAD Facilitator - Darnell. Darnell has been a volunteer for several months working on the HEMAD Biker Ride, HEMAD Classic Car Cruise, CRC Walk to Win and every other event. When we call him he comes. Darnell will be working closely with Minister Arnold Cifax Sr and Patrick McSweeny as they work to expand the HEMAD Project. This year our goal is 75,000 men to take the pledge. We are progressing very nicely and this added powerhouse will for sure take us over our goal.

Thanks Darnell and welcome aboard.

Needs for June 2025

https://a.co/04agutC

We need 10 laptops to move to the next step for the Solace Support Line and to equip our case managers for remote capabilities

The link above will take you to our Amazon wish list so you can purchase one for us.

Needs for June 2025

A volunteer to help with programming in Salesforce

contact CRC and ask for Dr Lassiter

Find us on Benevity

Have you made a financial contribution to Convergence recently? If your employer offers donation matching, you may be able to double your impact.

CRC is now registered with Benevity to make donation matching easier for you. If your employer uses Benevity to match donations, don't forget to look us up!

CRC DONATIONS VIA CashApp

CRC is now on CashApp! https:/Cash App is a mobile payment service developed by Square, Inc. that allows users to transfer money to one another using a mobile phone app. The service is available in the US and the UK

If you would like to make a donation via CashApp, please send it to our handle: "$CRCDonate"

PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION

Convergence welcomes Dave and Buster's as support partners.

Thanks to Linda and her team!!

Thank you to all of the men that have taken the HEMAD Pledge - our goal this year is 75,000 - it's not too late - TAKE THE PLEDGE TODAY!

Triumph Rising

Mondays on JOY1340 at 12:30pm.

Triumph Rising is the radio show hosted by Dr. Debbie Lassiter. Head over to the Media Page on our website to hear the latest episode.