Honoring 25 years of Sexual Assault Awareness Month with Marquette University

Marquette's Office of Health Promotion, Prevention and Advocacy invites the campus community to participate in honoring Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the national SAAM campaign; programming at Marquette will honor that milestone with a full month of events, spanning education, healing and community building.

Each week carries a theme. The month opens by looking back at the roots of the sexual assault awareness movement, before shifting focus to survivors whose voices have always been the center of this work.

Later weeks turn toward shared responsibility in prevention and, finally, envisioning the next 25 years of change.

Throughout the month, the Health Promotion, Prevention and Advocacy office, in partnership with the Office of Inclusion and Belonging, the Counseling Center and the Center for Peacemaking, has created weekly opportunities to attend and engage with the offices.

See events below:

April 8

• Soup with Substance: Black Women Roots of SAAM
  • Noon to 1 p.m. in the AMU Lunda Room
• BIPOC Survivor Support Group
  • 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility

April 9

• "I am Evidence" film viewing and panel Q&A
  • 5:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium

April 11

• Out of the Darkness Walk
  • 11 a.m. on Eckstein Commons

April 15

• Denim Decorating
  • 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the third floor of the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility
• LGBTQ+ Survivor Support Group
  • 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in AMU 140

April 20

• Healing Yoga
  • 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility Blue Studio

April 22

• Male Identifying Survivor Support Group
  • 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the third floor of the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility

April 27

• Female Identifying Survivor Support Group
  • 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the third floor of the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility

April 29

• Denim Day Block Party
  • 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Central Mall

For continued updates on events and SAAM history, follow @muhealthpromotion on Instagram and keep up with the Office of Health Promotion, Prevention and Advocacy Services.

For a confidential support resource, contact the Advocacy Services hotline at (414) 288-5244, or Marquette University Counseling Center at (414) 288-7172 (press 2 for after-hours).