By Pamela Pine | CEO, Stop the Silence
Happy Holidays! Today, I'd like to focus on the continued work going on through the universityies that we are doing at Stop the Silence.
At the University of Maryland, there has been some very nice progress on the Art as Advocacy front (see attached program description). In October, the UMD Stop the Silence Universtiy Movement and Stop the Silence, Inc. hosted a screening of To Kill A Kelpie, written by Matthew McVarish and Directed/Produced by Edward M. Smith, and a presentation and a panel discussion. The panel consisted of Matt Sandusky (the adopted son of Coach Jerry Sandusky, Matt S. now goes by the last name of Davidson); Mike Deninger, a licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia and a member of the Board of MaleSurvivor; and Becky Plumly Ianni from Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. See attached pics!
Stop the Silence, Inc. staff continued providing presentations in classrooms to large and small groups on CSA prevention and mitigation (thank you to Doly and Slyvia from Global Giving for visiting to view one of these presentations this past October and for their input at that time and thereafter) using the shorter films available to Stop the Silence like Chase Tarca's Devil in the Doorway. (Thank you to Doly and Slyvia from Global Giving for visiting to view one of these presentations this past October and for their input at that time and thereafter.)
Our wonderful current interns, Amy, Savannah, and Sarah, and other Stop the Silence Unviersity Movement Club members at UMD and volunteers have been instrumental at forwarding this work at UMD and elsewhere to forward the work of the Club and of Stop the Silence. We are gearing up for the Spring UMD program (a major syposium, awareness-raising events, and educational outreach), and for the Spring program at Stop the Silence at Indiana University and into the future. We are very excited about this. If you want to bring this program to a university near you, just send me a line: pamelajpine@gmail.com.
On the Art as Advocacy model development side, Bill Mathis has turned our and others' input about the relationships between actions and outcomes on prevention and mitigation into a map that shows the paths between the direct results of the work at the universities, for example (like the connection between the screening/presentations), through interim outcomes (and increased awareness and understanding and action), to the ultimate outcomes (which are our 5 drivers stating goals for resources, communication, engagement, prevention and healing). We are hoping it will be instrumental in both identifying how to make a change and showing the results of the actions that we are taking. We are also building in a financial element to the model, which we hope, too, will help us show others what entire countries can save if they put CSA prevention and mitigation programming in place. And we also hope that will help translate into funds to support the important work that we do. We presented this information at the upcoming 19th Annual Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) Conference in early September, and I will be further presenting the overall program at the IVAT Hawaii Conference in April of 2015.
Please continue to help support the work that we do in advocacy, community outreach, education, program development and training. Make a donation to help Stop the Silence this holiday season! We thank you for your support now and always along the way. And, you can click the following link to make a donation now.
Thank you and have a happy Fall!
The Stop the Silence Team
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