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2019 Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities

April 19, 2019   Campuses across the UA system join the national movement of recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM. Each year campus and community partners use activities throughout the month of April to spread the word about domestic violence and sexual assault, how to stop it and where to get help. Activities are aimed at furthering the end of violence against women and men in Alaska, raising public awareness and engaging agents of social change to end domestic and sexual violence.

One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Almost 75 percent of Alaskans have experienced or know someone who has experienced domestic violence or sexual assault (as reported by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence). It's on all of us to create the change we want to see in our communities and provide spaces that are free of violence.

See below a listing of Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities across the system:

UAA SAAM events

Anchorage Campus
*   Transcending Tales – March 31, 2019 – 5 to 7 p.m. – Student Union Den
*   SAAM tabling – April 1, 2019 – 11 to 1 p.m. – CPISB
*   SAAM tabling – April 9, 2019 – 11 to 1 p.m. – Student Union
*   Lost in Translation (workshop) – April 12, 2019 – 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. – Student Union
*   Femme in Public (Alok Vaid-Menon) – April 12 – Student Union
*   The Myth of Masculinity – April 17, 2019 – Student Union Den
*   Town Hall Meetings with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine  “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture and  Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”– April 17, 2019
*   Prevention and Advocacy Career Panel – April 18, 2019 – Lyla Richards Conference
*   Denim Day – April 24, 2019 – all day 

KPC Kenai River Campus
*   Title IX student training – April 16, 2019 – 11:30 to  12:30 p.m.
*   S’More Love – April 16, 2019 – 7 p.m. – Campus residence hall
*   Responsible Employee training – April 16, 2019 – 3 to 4:30 p.m.

KPC Kachamek Bay Campus
*   Title IX student training – April 17, 2019 – 12 to 1 p.m.
*   Responsible Employee training – April 17, 2019 – 10:30 to 12 p.m. 

Mat-Su Campus
*   SAAM tabling – April 3, 2019 – 10 to 2 p.m. 

Prince William Sound College
*   Bringing in the Bystander – April 18, 2019 – 12 to 1 p.m. – Commons
*   Make some art – April 18, 2019– 12 to 3 p.m. –  Commons
*   Denim Day – April 24, 2019 – all day
*   Wear Teal ribbons throughout the month

UAF SAAM events – 2019 theme “I ask”

Fairbanks Campus

*  SAAM tabling – all month – various locations
*  Bears, Beers & Bystanders – April 3, 2019 – 8 p.m.– The Pub
*  Clothesline Project – April 5 (7-9 p.m.) – April 9 (7-9 p.m.) – April 10 (6-8 p.m.)
*   Vagina Monologues (FemCon) – April 6, 2019 – 7 to 9 p.m. - Hess Rec
*   Green Dot Overview – April 9, 2019 –  6 p.m. – SRC
*   Reading (Na)Nook – April 12, 2019 – 6:30 p.m. –  Wood Center
*  Student Activism Workshop April 13, 2019 – 2 p.m. – Wood Center E/F
*   Green Dot Bystander Training – April 14, 2019 –  1 to 5 p.m.– ELIF 305
*   Green Dot Overview – April 18, 2019 – 2:30 p.m. – ELIF 305
*   National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine forum on the report “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”– April 16, 2019
*  Take Back the Night (SpringFest) – April 18, 2019  – 6 to 8 p.m. – Constitution park
*  One Love Workshop – April 23, 2019 – 7 to 9 p.m. – Hess Rec
*  Denim Day – April 24, 2019 – all day  
*   SAAM Craft nights – Wednesdays – 6 to 8 p.m. – Arctic Java

Kuskokwim Campus
*   Social media about sexual assault awareness month from https://www.nsvrc.org/saam
*   Flyers posted on campus (downloads from https://www.nsvrc.org/saam)
*   Denim Day – April 24, 2019 – all day
*   Tea and Consent – April 24, 2019 – 8:30 p.m. – Sackett Hall 

UAS SAAM events

Juneau Campus
*   Clothesline Project
*   National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine forum on the report “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”– April 18, 2019 

For more information about Denim Day, visit denimdayinfo.org