 The walk itself is very significant because we are the only walk in the community right now that specifically focuses domestic violence. But we also make sure that not only do we get people out here but while we have them as captive audiences we try to provide them information about resources in our community, ways that they can support our local shelter, ways that they can advocate to their elected officials and policymakers about domestic violence so that we can continue to make progress in our state. Everybody from all walks of life they're gathering here today to have a voice for the people who can no longer have a voice or they're here to get information because there are a lot of resource tables here that people can walk away with and share with family members that may be suffering in a domestic violence relationship. Now to be able to get out here and talk about self-care, talking about taking care of yourself so that you can do better for your family but then again when we're empowered and we feel good about ourselves not only do we take better care of ourselves physically but we also take better care of ourselves in terms of making sure that other people don't mistreat us. So DV is a huge part of it is how we feel about ourselves and if we feel good about ourselves we don't allow anyone to mistreat us whether it's an intimate partner or a clerk in a store so it's really important to love ourselves and feel good about ourselves. You should be advised of how much this impacts our children in our school district where they're not able to concentrate on the school work because of what's happening at home and so as a commissioner my heart is totally tied into this because of the impact of our children from parents who are dealing with domestic violence and even our student base some of our students are solid about their struggles and their strife with domestic violence so the two elephants fight the grass with us. I just want people to know that if you are in a domestic violence relationship and you have children your children are learning how to be treated or how to treat their romantic partner by what they observe in the home so if you don't do it for anybody else do it for them. Sometimes people come out just say okay it's a one-day event you know a couple hours I'm just gonna come and walk and support the event and I've done my good duty but they leave here empowered and inspired to get involved deeper and so you know for us we think that that is definitely a win for us as the mayor's walk because you know the more we are able to get more people understand the issue and be advocates for it the more we're going to eventually eradicated in our communities.