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Stanford Events | Off-Campus Events | Regional & Nationwide Awareness
In an effort to promote education and awareness about sexual violence and abusive relationships, Stanford sponsors a number of events throughout the academic year. Many of these events such as "Take Back the Night" are a part of a nationwide or even international movement to make our world a safer place. Your participation in any of these events shows your commitment to bringing greater awareness to these important issues that can help change someone's life in a positive way.

Stanford Events

Sexual Assault Solutions at Stanford (SASS)

SASS is a concerned group of students that meets to discuss ideas for potential student-initiated projects to address sexual assault concerns on the Stanford campus (i.e., incidents of assault, university policies, and politics).

    When: Every Wednesday; Noon-1pm
    Where: Women's Community Center (1st floor Old Firetruck House behind Tresidder)
    Contact: Jane Nevins (jnevins@stanford.edu) or Susan Su (ssu83@stanford.edu)

Take Back the Night

"Take Back the Night" is an annual march held across the country and internationally in protest to violence against women, particularly at night. The first "Take Back the Night" march in the United States was held in San Francisco in 1978. Stanford has participated in the event since 1991, with helpful information on awareness and prevention, personal testimonies from survivors of sexual assault, and ways of getting involved in the fight to stop violence against women. The event also features musical performances, speakers from the Stanford community, and a reception at Memorial Church following the candlelit march around campus.

V-day / Vagina Monologues group

V-day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls around the world.

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Off-Campus Bay Area Events

Artists Against Rape

This dynamic event features local poets, artists and activists, speaking out against sexual assault. Sponsored by San Francisco’s only rape crisis center, the event aims to help build an anti-violence movement that prioritizes survivors, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, low-income individuals, queer people, youth and others who have been marginalized or silenced.

San Francisco Walk Against Rape

"Walk Against Rape" is a new San Francisco event organized by San Francisco Women Against Rape to raise funding and awareness to end sexual violence against women and men.

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

"Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence" is a light-hearted opportunity for men to educate the community about a very serious subject and to rally the community to take action to prevent sexual violence.

A Week Without Violence

The YWCA's annual Week Without Violence represents our mission to create a vision of harmony; free of violence and full of peace within our homes, our classrooms, our businesses, our communities, our nation, and ultimately our world. As part of national and international YWCA efforts, YWCA of Silicon Valley promotes a violence-free world, welcoming communities and organizations throughout Santa Clara County to partner and participate during a "Week Without Violence".

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Regional and Nationwide Awareness

Seizing Opportunities to Advance a Prevention Frame through the Media

Presenters: Larry Cohen, Rachel Davis, Greta Tubbesing Prevention Institute.
Host: David Lee, Prevention Connection

Following recent school shootings in which girls were specifically targeted, the primary response was to call for school safety generally without attention to the gender of the victims or the implications. In the wake of announcements for OJ Simpson’s book on how he would have committed murder, there was an outcry and plans were scrapped. But did we miss an opportunity to bring attention to the need for prevention? Working from two background readings in reaction to these events, this web conference will examine how we can be better prepared to advance a prevention frame through the media in light of public events in violence against women and girls. We will share input and recommendations from the recent Prevention Connection web dialogue on this issue (“Where’s the Prevention Frame?” held on January 23, 2007) and explore further what an effective prevention frame might look like and how we can advance it.

The same interactive technology used for previous web conferences will be used for this event. Space will be limited to the first 450 registrants.

Prevention Connection is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and is sponsored by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The views and information provided in the listserv and web conferences do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. government, CDC, or CALCASA.

Real Time Captioning Available. Indicate in your registration if you be using real time captioning or any other assistive technology to access this web conference.

    When: Thursday, March 29, 20072:00-3:30 pm EST (11:00 am – 12:30 pm PST)
    Where: Online Webinar
    Cost: Free
    Contact: David S. Lee, MPH, Prevention Connection Manager
    david@calcasa.org
    888-922-5227 x309; 916-446-8802 (TTY)
    For more information or to register: Visit our web site at www.PreventConnect.org

Californians Uniting to End Domestic Violence - Statewide Day of Awareness

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). This month is designated as a time to take collective action, to celebrate survivors in this movement, raise public awareness of domestic violence, and remember the millions of lives lost, as a result of abuse. In recognition of DVAM, the Attorney General's Office is teaming up with local and statewide domestic violence organizations and other state agencies to host a Statewide Day of Awareness of Californians Uniting to End Domestic Violence at the State Capitol in Sacramento featuring nationally known speakers, live entertainment, refreshments, and information/exhibit booths.

11th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma

The conference covers all aspects of violence, abuse and trauma prevention, intervention, and research. This includes intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, youth violence, judicial issues, sexual assault, disabilities, treatment of offenders, elder abuse, trauma, and more. The special theme this year is Moving From Dialogue to Action. Our vision is to bring people and communities together to make a significant positive impact on eliminating all types of violence, abuse and trauma. We have two special tracks this year: Human Trafficking and Consumers/Survivors-Practitioners Dealing with Co-Occurring Disorders in Child Maltreatment. We are expecting over 1,500 attendees from all over the world for the week’s activities. Please join us for: multi-ethnic and multicultural issues and perspectives, multidisciplinary and international perspectives, networking and collaborating with colleagues, cutting-edge research, prevention strategies, policy changes, new methods, criminal justice and legal issues, healthcare approaches, intervention techniques, advanced clinical sessions, informal discussions and conversations with some of the invited speakers, and skill-building opportunities.

Sonoma Wine Country’s 1st Annual Family Violence Conference 2006

Police sponsored conference on domestic violence, sexual assault, prevention, the legal and judicial process, advocacy and victim services programs, and other important awareness issues.

    When: October 19-20, 2006
    Where: Santa Rosa Police Dept., 965 Sonoma Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
    Contact: Detective Tamara Warner - (707) 543-4040, twarner@srcity.org
    Registration form: Available here

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