{"id":220520,"date":"2026-04-06T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:50:08","slug":"walk-in-my-shoes-tour-returning-to-central-florida-april-11-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220520\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk in My Shoes tour returning to Central Florida April 11-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walk in My Shoes tour returning to Central Florida April 11-16<\/p>\n

The 11th annual event and 1,500-mile trek will make stops in Lakeland, Orlando, Satellite Beach, The Villages and Ocala. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:31 AM EDT Apr 6, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe 11th annual Walk in My Shoes event will return to Central Florida April 11-16, 2026. The 1,500-mile trek across the state of Florida is led by former state Sen. Lauren Book, who is the founder and CEO of Lauren’s Kids. The South Florida-based nonprofit is dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse through education, awareness campaigns, and survivor support initiatives, according to its website. Scheduled tour stops in Central Florida: April 11 \u2013 LakelandStarting location: Children’s Home Society of Florida, 1010 E Rose St.Starting time: 8:00 a.m.April 12 \u2013 OrlandoStarting location: Victim Service Center of Central Florida, Inc., 2111 E Michigan St #210Starting time: 7:30 a.m.April 14 \u2013 Satellite BeachStarting location: Satellite Beach Church of Christ, 104 NE 3rd St.Starting time: 8:30 a.m.April 15 \u2013 The VillagesStarting location: AVIV Clinics, 2955 Brownwood Blvd.Starting time: 9:00 a.m.April 16 \u2013 OcalaStarting location: Publix Super Market at Grand Oaks Town Center 2575 SW 42nd St.Starting time: 9:00 a.m.Click here to register and learn more.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The 11th annual Walk in My Shoes event will return to Central Florida April 11-16, 2026. <\/p>\n

The 1,500-mile trek across the state of Florida is led by former state Sen. Lauren Book, who is the founder and CEO of Lauren’s Kids. <\/p>\n

The South Florida-based nonprofit is dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse through education, awareness campaigns, and survivor support initiatives, according to its website. <\/p>\n

Scheduled tour stops in Central Florida: <\/p>\n

Starting location: Children’s Home Society of Florida, 1010 E Rose St.<\/p>\n

Starting time: 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Starting location: Victim Service Center of Central Florida, Inc., 2111 E Michigan St #210<\/p>\n

Starting time: 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

April 14 \u2013 Satellite Beach<\/p>\n

Starting location: Satellite Beach Church of Christ, 104 NE 3rd St.<\/p>\n

Starting time: 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

April 15 \u2013 The Villages<\/p>\n

Starting location: AVIV Clinics, 2955 Brownwood Blvd.<\/p>\n

Starting time: 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Starting location: Publix Super Market at Grand Oaks Town Center 2575 SW 42nd St.<\/p>\n

Starting time: 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Click here to register and learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walk in My Shoes tour returning to Central Florida April 11-16 The 11th annual event and 1,500-mile trek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99956,99954,99959,147,99955,9322,14676,7071,99953,113,28,30,29,99957,3638,4211,4919,7154,99958,4474,96777,96778,99951,98966,98965,2649,139,79263,99952,15785,3690,99961,99960,96781,5859,52048],"class_list":{"0":"post-220520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-210starting-time","9":"tag-a-m-april","10":"tag-awareness-campaign","11":"tag-central-florida","12":"tag-central-florida-april","13":"tag-ceo","14":"tag-child-sexual-abuse","15":"tag-children","16":"tag-details","17":"tag-education","18":"tag-florida","19":"tag-florida-headlines","20":"tag-florida-news","21":"tag-home-society","22":"tag-inc","23":"tag-information","24":"tag-kids","25":"tag-lakeland","26":"tag-lakelandstarting-location","27":"tag-lauren","28":"tag-lauren-book","29":"tag-laurens-kids","30":"tag-laurens-kids-safer","31":"tag-national-child-abuse-prevention-month","32":"tag-national-sexual-assault-awareness-month","33":"tag-ocala","34":"tag-orlando","35":"tag-satellite-beach","36":"tag-smarter-kids","37":"tag-survivor","38":"tag-the-villages","39":"tag-tour-stop","40":"tag-victim-service-center","41":"tag-walk-in-my-shoes","42":"tag-when","43":"tag-where"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}