SRVP Events

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Nationally, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and we would like to educate the Santa Monica College community to encourage a safe environment. Santa Monica College has shown an incredible commitment to not only informing students of their rights but also of the support services we have to offer them.

Resources

The following organizations are a few of many dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual violence every day:

• Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica
  24-Hour Rape Hotline: 424-259-6000

• Peace Over Violence
  24-Hour Rape & Battering Hotline: 301-392-8381

• The National Sexual Assault Online Hotline (RAINN)
  24-Hour Hotline: 800-656-4673

• Center for Pacific Asian Family Hotline Website
  888-339-3940

• National Domestic Violence Hotline
  800-799-7233

• National Human Trafficking Hotline
  888-373-7888 (TTY: 711) or text them at 233-733

• Suicide Prevention Hotline
  800-273-8255

2020 Activities

Educational Resources

Not Anymore! Online Sexual Assault Prevention Training

This online training for students, faculty and staff is free and Topics include: Affirmative consent, Bystander behavior, Verbal Defense, Types of sexual misconduct, How to report and find support services.

Podcasts and YouTube Videos

• Irresistible: collective healing & social change

• Unlocking Us with Brene Brown

• Encyclopedia Womannica

• LGBTQ&A

• Cup of Tea

• Bystander Intervention

• Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault

• Irresistible: collective healing & social change

• Why Do We Silence Black Girls and Women Who are Survivors of Sexual Violence?

• Sexual Assault in the Black Community

Meditation, Yoga and Mindfulness

• Meditation Minis with Chel Hamilton

• Yoga: Exhale to Inhale "A Space to Breathe"
  This is a free offering and they explore different themes each week.
  Three Exhale to Inhale classes are below:
  • 30 minute Yoga Class
  • Exhale to Inhale 10 minute Chair Yoga

  • 12 minuto video de Exhale to Inhale Yoga en español

• Yoga with Adriene
  Adriene focuses on PTSD

• Setu Yoga
  Setu Yoga teachers are sensitive and trauma informed
  They also have short and sweet 15 minute sessions

Music Playlists

• Stress Free from COVID19 Spotify Playlist

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Events

April 7: SMC Board of Trustees will pass the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Resolution

Yoga: In Honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Ground and breathe your way into a gentle and peaceful practice in the healing power of yoga

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 4-5 p.m.
Instructor: Leslie Porter
Registration is capped to 8 attendees only

Register for Yoga

Denim Day

April 29, 2020
Wear your jeans to take a stand against sexual violence. Join millions across the world as we wear denim on April 29 in observance of Denim Day.

Denim Day Coloring Pages

Click on the images below to download a full sized image.

April Activities

30-Day Instagram Challenge

Consent Quiz

Test your knowledge. If you are not sure of all the answer read the Consent Guide.

Coloring Page

Yes Means Yes Coloring Page created for the 2020 Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Title IX Virtual Open House

Visit the SMC Sexual Violence Response and Prevention website and learn more about how the Title IX office can support you with experiences of sexual assault, discrimination, harassment, and more.

Peace Over Violence

Peace over Violence’s messaging will center around what this solidarity can look like and what community members have observed or done to build this. They will highlight experiences from survivors as well as some of their POV staff and volunteers.

Cultivating Resilience: A Sexual and Domestic Violence Survivor Forum
Tuesday, April 14, 7 - 8 p.m.
Facilitated by: Wendy Blanco, Director of Clinical Services

Denim Day 101: Virtual Edition
Facilitated by: Hannah Denyer & Joslyn Beard
Tuesday, April 21, 12-1 p.m.

Denim Day Online Rally
Wednesday, April 29, 8 a.m.
Let's gather our virtual selves in the virtual world for an unprecedented virtual Denim Day Rally. For those of us who have been wearing pajamas and sweatpants for the past few weeks, we can change into our jeans, making a social statement with our fashion statement.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

If you overhear what might be a domestic violence incident, call 911. You could save a life.

Did you Know?

• Statistically, you know several victims of domestic violence. It affects 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men.

• Over 3 million children every year are exposed to domestic violence.

• Children who are exposed to domestic violence are more likely to suffer long-term health problems.

• Domestic violence costs over $5.8 billion each year.

• Domestic violence knows no boundaries.

• Women aged 20–24 are at greater risk of becoming domestic violence victims.

Videos:

• Afraid to Leave, Afraid to Stay.

• Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women. It's a Men's Issue.

• Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave.

Resources:

• Help end domestic violence in your community. http://bit.ly/15Jipap

• Help eradicate domestic violence from our communities by speaking out during domestic violence awareness month. Get the facts: http://bit.ly/1hlAwTx

• Celebrities are standing up to say NO MORE to domestic violence: http://nomore.org/psas

• Domestic violence in one home hurts the entire community. Spread awareness & help victims heal with these resources: http://calvcp.ca.gov/dvam/resources.aspx

• Is it abuse? Find domestic violence warning signs & call or text @loveisrespect for support at any time! http://www.loveisrespect.org

• Children may try to intervene to stop domestic violence, putting them at risk of injury or death. Domestic violence awareness month facts: http://vcgcb.ca.gov/docs/brochures/DVAM2013FactSheet.pdf

• 1 in 3 female homicide victims was murdered by her current or former partner. Get the facts on domestic violence: http://vcgcb.ca.gov/docs/brochures/DVAM2013FactSheet.pdf

• 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence. You probably know someone who could use help. Share these resources for victims: http://vcgcb.ca.gov/resources.aspx

• Over 60% of domestic violence crimes occur in the family home, but the effects don't stay at home. (Via @HelpingVictims' Resource Guide) http://vcgcb.ca.gov/resources.aspx

• Young girls who witness domestic violence are more likely to become victims of abuse as adults. #DVAM factsheet: http://vcgcb.ca.gov/docs/brochures/DVAM2013FactSheet.pdf