Current Campaign

About the 2013 campaign

The 2013 National Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign focuses on healthy sexuality and its connection to child sexual abuse prevention.

This April, join the conversation. Start talking about healthy childhood development to prevent child sexual abuse.

The upcoming SAAM campaign provides tools and information on healthy childhood sexual development that adults can use. By learning about the characteristics of healthy sexuality [1], adults can better identify risks, support healthy boundaries and challenge negative messages. These tools support parents, community members and organizations as they work to prevent child sexual abuse [2].

Healthy Childhood Sexual Development Resources

An overview on healthy childhood sexual development [3]

This tool provides an overview of healthy childhood sexual development by exploring age-appropriate behaviors and skills and information on supporting healthy development.

Resource for community members [4]

This tool focuses on how all adults in a community can support child sexual abuse prevention efforts and promote healthier environments for children.

Resource for parents [5]

This tool explores how parents can better understand healthy childhood development, create safe environments and support the children in their lives.

Exercise: Talking to your child [6]

This exercise focuses on increasing a parent’s comfort and knowledge when talking to their child about sex.

Resource for advocates, educators and preventionists [7]

This tool equips leaders and partners in sexual violence prevention to understand healthy child sexual development and engage adults in promoting healthy development and skills.

Additional resources:

The NSVRC Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Information Packet [2] provides a comprehensive overview, resources and research to support prevention efforts.

Resources from SAAM 2012 [1] campaign provide an overview of healthy sexuality as sexual violence prevention. Use these tools to learn more about healthy sexuality and as a foundation to a healthy childhood sexual development campaign.

Campaign materials

These materials support planning, outreach and participation in Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaigns.

Start the conversation on Twitter & Facebook [8]

Daily posts for social networking sites

Event ideas for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) [9]

Suggestions for April and the SAAM Day of Action: Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Tips for creating a campaign [10]

Learn how to plan an effective prevention campaign

Proclamation [11]

A customizable proclamation for your community

It’s time ... to write about it [12]

A sample Letter to the Editor

Factsheets on sexual violence prevention:

Tips for partnering with youth-serving organizations [13]

Tips for parents/caregivers [14] and health care professionals [15]

For additional campaign planning tools and tips, join the conversation at the SAAM blog [16]. To request a resource CD, join our mailing list by contacting resources@nsvrc.org [17]. Many resources are also available in Spanish [18].

Campaign visuals

The graphics, art and visuals of the Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month logos

(Available in English and Spanish)

Download English Sexual Assault Awareness Month logo [19]

Download Spanish Sexual Assault Awareness Month logo [20]

“Talk early, talk often” logos

(Available in English and Spanish)

Download English "It's time" logo [21]

Download Spanish "It's time" logo [22]

Downloads for SAAM

Campaign logos, posters and images for Facebook and Twitter are available for download [23].

Twitter chats on Tuesdays in April! #TweetAboutIt

Tweet about it! Tuesdays are chats happening on Twitter [24] every Tuesday in April as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Join experts for a one-hour live discussion of child sexual abuse prevention and the role all adults can play in promoting healthy development.

Learn how to participate [25].

Tuesday, April 2 @ 2pm EST

SAAM Day of Action

Hosted by Dr. Janet Rosenzweig (@JanetRosenzweig [26]), expert committed to promoting sexual health and safety.

Tuesday, April 9 @ 2pm EST

In partnership with the Pennslvania Coalition Against Rape (@PCARorg [27])

Hosted by @PCARorg [27] and Tara Murtha (@taramurtha [28]), reporter for Philadelphia Weekly and teacher at Temple University.

Tuesday, April 16 @ 2pm EST

Preventing sexual violence in Latin@ communities

Hosted by Casa de Esperanza (@casadeesperanza [29]), mobilizing Latinas and Latino communities to end domestic violence.

Tuesday, April 23 @ 2pm EST

In partnership with the Pennslvania Coalition Against Rape (@PCARorg [27])

Hosted by @PCARorg [27] and Dr. Ian Elliott (@ianaelliott [30]), criminal psychologist and a research scholar at the Justice Center for Research at Penn State University.

Discount films for SAAM

The NSVRC is partnering with the Media Education Foundation [31] for National Sexual Violence Awareness Month 2013 [32] to offer reduced pricing on select films [31]exclusively to Sexual Assault Awareness Month activity organizers.

You can order films at SAAM prices [31] through April 30, 2013. Over twenty fabulous films are included ranging from The Line to Wrestling with Manhood.

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