{"id":254573,"date":"2026-05-01T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254573\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:57:07","slug":"laurens-kids-annual-walk-reaches-its-last-stop-at-the-florida-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254573\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lauren\u2019s Kids\u2019 Annual Walk reaches its last stop at the Florida Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Lauren Book\u2019s walk across the state has reached the final mile at the State Capitol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/04\/30\/students-gilchrist-elementary-participate-laurens-kids-annual-statewide-walk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/04\/30\/students-gilchrist-elementary-participate-laurens-kids-annual-statewide-walk\/\">Lauren\u2019s Kids \u201cWalk in My Shoes\u201d<\/a> is a statewide 1,500-mile expedition to bring awareness to child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In April, the organization launched the<a href=\"https:\/\/laurenskidswalk.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/laurenskidswalk.org\/\"> Voices Project initiative<\/a> that will allow survivors to share their stories through anonymous recordings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-center\">Florida Politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lauren Book said it means a lot to complete this pilgrimage another year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think for us it\u2019s about being a mechanism for those survivors to share their stories. And I\u2019m really excited to share the stories of the people that we have touched along the way to echo and so their stories reverberate into the halls of the Capitol, where we can create policies that make a difference,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the 11th year of the walk and one of the biggest turnouts yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Book expressed her excitement over next year\u2019s walk as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI am already looking towards next year and what it can look like and what it can be like. And again, we are so much a part of this community and this community is so much a part of us that we are excited every year to hit the road,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Lauren Book\u2019s walk across the state has reached the final mile at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[45820,8601,6041,96777,110834,232,234,233,110835,96781],"class_list":["post-254573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-advocacy","tag-capitol","tag-child-abuse","tag-lauren-book","tag-lauren-kids","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-voices-project-intiative","tag-walk-in-my-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254573","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=254573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}