“Safe Campus, Strong Voices” Campaign Launched
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July 8, 2011
Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) and Security On Campus, Inc. (SOC), have joined together with other leading sexual assault groups for a national campaign during September for National Campus Safety Awareness Month. “Safe Campus, Strong Voices” is a nationwide campaign to raise awareness and shatter the silence of college sexual violence.
SOC and PAVE have put together toolkits to create effective, simple-to-run campaigns in an ever-busy campus environment. The campaign provides materials, training, and ideas to bring prevention education programs to campus, to hold tabling events, and to collaborate with other groups and offices on campus throughout the month of September and beyond. On September 30, all participating groups across the country will stand in solidarity by holding simultaneous rallies. They will encourage reporting of sexual assault and a culture shift to create the safest, most supportive campus community for survivors of sexual violence.
To learn more about “Safe Campus, Strong Voices,” visit the campaign’s Web site.