Media and other advocacy. Stop the Silence uses the Race to Stop the Silence and the media (TV, radio, press, Web) to catalyze public awareness and social change. Major campaigns run each year, in the spring (before the Race in April every year) and other campaigns run throughout the year. The campaigns have reached millions through TV, radio, and the press with most media time donated.

Art as Advocacy Program. To Kill A Kelpie, a Stop the Silence inspired, Scottish- born play by playwright Matthew McVarish (www.ToKillAKelpie.com) made its first U.S. tour in 2011. It is coming to Off-Broadway, San Diego and many other U.S. venues in 2012, and other countries have also expressed interest. This and other art as advocacy products are available nationally for others to use to raise awareness and support community outreach efforts.

Service provider training. Stop the Silence has been conducting training for police officers, community-based organizations, and leaders in corporate, governmental, and health organizations since its inception. This training has provided important background and clinical information, as well as created linkages between counseling, legal, and judicial programming.

Community education and outreach. Stop the Silence is reaching out in partnership with community- and faith-based organizations (CBOs and FBOs), as well as schools and public offices. Its goal is to educate audiences about the epidemic proportions of CSA, its root causes, its impact, how to recognize possible signs and symptoms, and, most importantly, what can be done by the public and policy makers to stop it.

National Children's Bench Book (NCBB) Project. The Bench Book is a critical information tool for judges and other professionals to use as they address child sexual abuse and maltreatment cases. The NCBB aims to help the courts and related personnel best deal with the cases brought before them. Stop the Silence looks to bring training to judges and other court-related personnel throughout the nation based on its successful national pilot training in 9/08 supported by the Department of Justice.

Survivors Groups. Stop the Silence promotes survivors’ groups and information for them with populations all over the world in collaboration with The Lamplighters and others.

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How can Stop the Silence work with you?

Stop the Silence aims to provide programming in Awareness, Prevention, and Healing to address CSA. We can provide short- and longer-term strategic planning and technical assistance to help you set up or develop programming in a number of areas, including media and other advocacy, training of service providers, development of informative and modivational art as advocacy programming, community development and outreach and more. Contact us for more information: info@stopcsa.org.