Lauren Book launches effort to help Hurricane Michael victims

Lauren Book launches effort to help Hurricane Michael victims

Sen. Lauren Book has announced a new initiative to help child sexual abuse survivors in the Florida Panhandle post-Hurricane Michael.

The Lauren’s Kids Foundation, Book’s organization aimed at helping survivors, has spent several years walking in the Panhandle as part of the “Walk in My Shoes” statewide trip to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Book, a Plantation Democrat and sexual abuse survivor herself, made the announcement Saturday night in Aventura at the Reid & Fiorentino Call of the Game Dinner. The dinner benefits Lauren’s Kids Foundation and the Dade Schools Athletic Foundation.

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