A list of event ideas can help in planning an effective Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign. While April is only one month out of the year, SAAM events can provide excellent opportunities to establish partnerships, launch new campaigns and programs, and initiate prevention activities that will continue throughout the year and beyond.
The Winter 2018 edition of The Resource discusses where the anti-sexual violence movement can go in the wake of the #MeToo movement. In addition, The Resource features:
In August of 2017, the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released a report on National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits: A Multidisciplinary Approach. In 2013, the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Report Act (SAFER Act) was passed into law amending the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide funds for grants to be administered to laboratories to address the critical need of eliminating the backlog of sexual assault kits, the law requires an establishment of protocols and practices.
From the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families
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port highlights six state- and local-level approaches to evaluation and explores organizational and individual factors of evaluation capacity.
Publish Date
March 2017
Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a great opportunity to create a community-wide campaign and strengthen local partnerships and coalitions. Public education campaigns play an important role in changing social norms by sharing basic facts with members of the community.
We can all use our voices to change the culture to prevent sexual violence. Prevention requires addressing the root causes and social norms that allow sexual violence to exist. This April, we're calling on groups whose influence can play a critical role in changing the culture. We’re strongest when we raise our voices together, and that’s why we’re engaging new groups in the movement.
The Sexual Assault Awareness Month Event Planning Guide is a resource to help plan effective SAAM campaigns in your community.
Publish Date
2017
The Sexual Assault Awareness Month Campaign Planning Guide is a resource to help create a community-wide SAAM campaign.
Publish Date
2017