Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month

Add this frame to your social media profiles

Hi everyone,

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM)! This is typically one of our busiest outreach months. This year, we're getting creative and going as digital as possible since we can't show up in person throughout the community like we normally do. Can you help?

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The first Wednesday of the month is Start By Believing Day. The goal of this campaign is to prepare our fellow community members to respond supportively when someone says, "I was sexually assaulted." It also provides Doorways a critical opportunity to extend our reach as a resource to any survivors who may need support.

How you can help

Through our online outreach kit, you can:

Add a frame to your Facebook profile picture
Add a frame to any social profile picture or post
Download and print a placard to show your commitment to start by believing
Post to your own social media using sample social media posts
Send an email to family and friends to ask them to join you

If you have any questions or virtual outreach ideas, please feel free to contact me.

Best wishes,

Linley

Linley Beckbridge

(Pronouns: she/her/hers) – what’s this?

Communications and Outreach Director

Doorways | www.DoorwaysVA.org

Direct: 703-504-9283 | Main: 703-504-9400 | Fax: 703-522-4338

24-Hour Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline: 703-237-0881

PS – Here are three more ways to support survivors:

Did you know...? Learn about the services Doorways offers survivors and tell at least three people about them (bonus: challenge them to tell three people, too!)
Create a Facebook or Instagram fundraiser and ask your friends to donate in support of survivors
Shop our Am azon wish list and send supplies to our clients