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

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. 

 Thank you for the information...I know that your organization has not yet extended its services here in [withheld]. The sad truth is that there are not a lot of resources available to victims and their families here. I was lucky enough to have internet access but [withheld] is a poor city and most do not. Is there any way to extend your organization here or to start one of awareness?  

How can Stop the Silence work with you?

Stop the Silence aims to increase awareness about and conduct programming to address the prevention and treatment of CSA, and the relationships between this issue and broader societal violence. We can provide short- and longer-term strategic planning and technical assistance to help you set up or develop programming in any one or more of seven areas:

• Provide support for individual and group counseling (to heal what has already transpired)
• Advocacy
• Training of service providers 
• Community education and outreach
• Policy development and application
• Research and evaluation
• Other prevention measures (e.g., a focus on appropriately dealing with offenders)