Crime Victims Treatment Center Hosts Gala And Benefit Concert

The Crime Victims Treatment Center, the largest and most comprehensive hospital-based victim assistance program in New York State since 1977; Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation's leading industry based HIV/AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization; New World Stages, An Award Winning state-of-the-art theatrical venue housing 5 Off-Broadway Theates and Melissa Errico, a Tony nominee for the Broadway musical Amour, along with Broadway and television performers Michael-Leon Wooley, April Hernandez, Zachary Booth, Morgan James, Kevin Massey and more.

WHAT: "The Bridge: Where Hope and Respect Come Together", a Gala and Benefit Concert celebrating the work of the Crime Victims Treatment Center of St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital

WHEN: Monday, April 11, 2011

WHERE: New World Stages, Stage 2
340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenue

WHY: Performers and volunteers for this amazing evening are coming together to ensure that the Crime Victims Treatment Center (CVTC)-located at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center-can continue its groundbreaking work empowering survivors of violent crimes including sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence. Violent crime affects millions of Americans throughout the course of their lifetimes. One in six women in the U.S. has been or will be a victim of sexual assault; seven percent of men in the U.S. are sexually assaulted in their lifetime and up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually. Established in 1977, the Crime Victims Treatment Center of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital is now the largest and most comprehensive hospital-based victim assistance program in New York State. CVTC has provided a model for other health care institutions in the United States and around the world in the respectful treatment of survivors of family and intimate partner violence, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, and other forms of violence and crime. In 2010, CVTC provided 5,876 individual therapy sessions to 933 survivors; the program is hopeful that donations from this benefit will allow them to expand these numbers to offer services to an even greater number of survivors in need.