#SAAM2023 Social Media Guidance
About Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Day of Action
The SAAM Day of Action is April 4, 2023. Learn how you can get involved!
The first Tuesday of every April is the SAAM Day of Action. The Day of Action is an opportunity to start off the month with highly visible and coordinated actions. It’s the perfect opportunity to plan an event, post SAAM-related social media content, or participate in the #30DaysofSAAM Instagram challenge. You can also find your own way to get involved on April 5th.
SAAM - Learn
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SAAM - Blogs
We are currently in the process of updating our website with SAAM 2023 materials. Note the links below still direct to last year's materials. Sign-up for our email list to be the first to know when SAAM 2023 materials have arrived.
SAAM - Get Involved
We are currently in the process of updating our website with SAAM 2023 materials. Note the links below still direct to last year's materials. Sign-up for our email list to be the first to know when SAAM 2023 materials have arrived.
Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity
We can trace a line from sexual violence to systems of oppression, and we can’t end sexual violence without also ending racism. Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity calls on all individuals, communities, organizations, and institutions to change ourselves and the systems surrounding us to build racial equity and respect.
Existing Measures
It is easy to get caught up in the idea of using measures that have been validated through research studies (e.g., the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale) as your tools of choice. While there are definite benefits to this (see below), there are also significant drawbacks. As with all things in evaluation, using existing measures should be done very deliberately and should not be considered the default option when planning your evaluation.
Evaluation During a Crisis or Disaster
When disaster strikes, it tears the curtain away from the festering problems that we have beneath them.
- Barack Obama
Evaluation with Minimal Resources
Rape crisis centers, other sexual violence service providers, and community-based organizations often struggle to maintain adequate resources to serve their communities. When this is the case, it can feel difficult to earmark money for evaluation. However, evaluation is a critical and integral part of accountability and provision of effective, high quality services. Additionally, it’s still true that resources can be tight and that some funders, while requiring evaluation, impose restrictions on how much money can be spent on evaluation practice.
Case Studies
In a effort to learn from preventionists and evaluation partners around the country, this section of the toolkit provides case examples and case studies in sexual violence prevention evaluation. If you have a lesson learned that you would like to share, you can submit your case examples for consideration by filing out this brief