Raise Your Voice
This website provides one easy-to-navigate source of information about university resources, services, policies, and other necessary information regarding sexual assault prevention and sexual misconduct. You'll also find links to pertinent resources from other relevant university offices.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024
Time: 3:30 PM to 5 PM
Location: University Health Center, room 0141
Hosts: CARE to Stop Violence
For questions or accommodations, please contact Charlotte at csheff4@umd.edu.
Come to enjoy coffee and donuts, and discuss ways we can build healthy dating, sexual, and platonic relationships. We'll unpack cultural scripts related to consent, power, and sex and their impact on norms and expectations for relationships, and the ways that we can rethink those scripts Stop by as your schedule allows; all are welcome!
Time: 12 PM to 2 PM
Location: McKeldin Mall
Hosts: Sexual Assault Prevention Committee (SAPC)
For questions or accommodations, please contact Alejandra Galarce Diaz at agalarce@umd.edu.
Join the Sexual Assault Prevention Committee (SAPC) for their annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) Resource Fair! On October 4 from 12 PM to 2 PM, the SAPC and partner organizations will be on McKeldin Mall to promote awareness and services related to power-based violence prevention and response on campus. Come browse tables and meet with representatives from various organizations. Cookies and refreshments will be provided, as well.
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
Location: McKeldin Mall
Host: CARE to Stop Violence
For questions or accommodations, please contact Grace Fansler Boudreau at gfansler@umd.edu.
The Clothesline Project is a visual representation of the impacts of sexual and relationship violence on the campus community. This event from the CARE Office provides community members with an opportunity to confront the issue of power-based violence by creating and displaying their own messages on a shirt during DVAM.
Time: 2 PM to 3 PM
Location: MICA's Cozy Corner (STAMP)
Host: Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (OCRSM)
Register for How to Help a Friend lunch and learn workshop
For questions or accommodations, please contact Ayanna Samuels-Francis at asamuelf@umd.edu.
This workshop will focus on how to respond and navigate supporting a friend, peer, or partner that has been impacted by sexual misconduct. In this workshop, we will discuss what to do, how to respond, and also understand the importance of self-care.
Time: 5 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: STAMP, Studio A
Host: CARE to Stop Violence, Bias Incident Support Services
Register for Bystander Intervention Workshop
For questions or accommodations, please contact Kiara Dade at kdade@umd.edu or Jennifer Valdez at jvaldez3@umd.edu.
BISS will be partnering with CARE to Stop Violence during Bias Awareness Week to present a bystander intervention workshop incorporating a creative approach to a traditional workshop in a fun way. This workshop will emphasize both BISS and CARE to Stop Violence as campus resources in an effort to explore how students can be active participants in addressing bias on campus. Due to paint supplies and light refreshments being served this event does have limited capacity; please RSVP!
Time: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Studio A (STAMP)
Host: Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (OCRSM)
For questions or accommodations, please contact Ayanna Samuels-Francis at asamuelf@umd.edu.
A workshop to educate and bring awareness to students and community about the different types of relationship/dating abuse such as verbal, physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental abuse. Relationship abuse can show various forms. It is important to recognize that it goes beyond physical for early signs to leave an unhealthy relationship.
Time: 5 PM to 7 PM
Location: Hornbake Plaza
Host: CARE to Stop Violence
For questions or accommodations, please contact Grace Fansler Boudreau at gfansler@umd.edu.
PLN is an event to honor victims and survivors of relationship violence during DVAM. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to join CARE to Stop Violence Outreach Peers to learn about relationship violence and its impact on students, what you can do to help someone who has been impacted, and what resources exist on and off campus.
Time: 5 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: STAMP (room TBD)
Host: Sexual Misconduct Prevention Committee (SGA)
For questions or accommodations, please contact Shivani Sidh at sgasmp@umd.edu.
Reclaim the Red is an annual event hosted by the Sexual Misconduct Prevention Committee of SGA to promote resources and awareness for the Red Zone, the first six to eight weeks of the fall semester in which an increased number of sexual assaults and related incidents occur. The event aims to spread awareness regarding healthy relationships through programming, tabling and resources from power-based violence prevention and response organizations (on/off campus).
Get Help
Included here is a list of confidential campus resources, non-confidential campus resources, off-campus resources, national resources, reporting options, information on how to file a complaint, and the roles and responsibilities of campus partners.
Get Involved
This section includes sexual assault prevention trainings and programs available to faculty, staff and students, and a calendar of events and programs.
Get Informed
The Sexual Misconduct Policy procedures for students, staff and faculty are listed here, as are reporting obligations for faculty and staff.
About the SAPC
The Sexual Assault Prevention Committee (SAPC) is a committee of stakeholders on campus who meet monthly. This section includes an overview of the sexual assault prevention plan, summary of activities, list of committee members and their office websites, and the contact information of the committee point person.
