Decide to End Sexual Violence!
Build healthy respectful relationships and communities
*Don’t Be Quiet*Speak Out*Take Action*
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Californians can join national efforts to “Decide to End Sexual Violence.” The California Coalition Against Sexual Assault is providing information, tips and tools that maximize successful Sexual Assault Awareness Month planning throughout the state and action steps that community members, activists, and professional industries can take to end sexual violence.
The tenth annual edition of the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Information Packet for 2008 offers comprehensive, user-friendly, theme-based event suggestions, media and public advocacy tools, merchandise and support statistics that you can use according to your need. We offer this year’s information packet in the spirit of strengthening our collective ability to “Decide to End Sexual Violence.”
CALCASA is participating with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s efforts to promote a nationwide sexual violence and awareness month campaign to bring a unified national effort to increase visibility of sexual violence and the need for its prevention.
CALCASA joins you, as your statewide voice, as you encourage conversation and action to end sexual violence across California. As survivors of sexual violence know, we must have the courage and commitment to stay conscious of and determined about ending sexual violence. Don’t be quiet. Speak out. Take Action. Build healthy relationships—not just in romantic or sexual relationships, but also as friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and community members. How we interact with each other as well as creating an atmosphere of support about the fact that sexual violence exists are the next steps in our vision of a world free from sexual violence. We can do something to end sexual violence! By taking action, healing can begin, justice is possible, and an end to fear can be imagined. When Californians collectively Decide to End Sexual Violence, we will have taken the first step toward a future without sexual violence together. We are honored to be working with you toward that end.
Proclamations and Resolutions
Proclamations and resolutions can help you involve local government leaders in your work to raise awareness about sexual violence. You can build an event around the public presentation of a proclamation or resolution. In some situations, a resolution or proclamation can help "legitimize" your story idea in the minds of media representatives as they hear your pitch for coverage of Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities.
On the next few pages, you will find sample documents to help you format and draft your own proclamation or resolution. We recommend that you use the proclamation for a mayor or county commissioner, and the resolution for a legislative body such as your city council or county board of supervisors.
The text from the State of California's Resolution designating April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month is included for your information and use. For the text from the Denim Day California Resolution, please refer to the Denim Day section at the front of this booklet.
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