Get Involved!

Many people are trying to prevent sexual assault across the world. The United States has established April as Sexual Assault Awareness month. The NSVRC wants the everyday bystander to find responsible ways to intervene and spread awareness.  SAAM(Sexual Assault Awareness Month) is a way to help keep relationships, families, communities, etc. safe, by reinforcing the need for prevention efforts.

This year, SAAM decided to go with the "bystander" approach.They want everyday people/witnesses to speak up and help keep communities safe. The theme for this year's campaign is "it's time....to get involved." For this SAAM campaign, people are to take and post pictures of themselves holding clocks; symbolizing that it is time to get involved. They ask that people post it in their communities as well as have Facebook and Twitter users change their profile pictures to them with the clocks. This event will take place on April 5, 2011.


I think this campaign can do well if the word gets out. Facebook and Twitter are rising each day and the more people seem to use the media tools the more it spreads. So lets raise awareness any way that we can!

More information visit http://www.nsvrc.org/saam.