by Laura Guilliams | Apr 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
#SAAM Week 1 On Tuesday, April 4th we kicked off our first community-wide Sexual Assault Awareness Month with a Press Conference featuring City of Roanoke Mayor Sherman Lea, Nick Kline, Chair of the Family Violence Coordinating Council, and Brian Caswell, survivor.... 
by Laura Guilliams | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2017 We Have A TON Planned! Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is celebrated in April on an annual basis throughout the world. While every month is SAAM here at SARA, we wanted to plan special programming throughout the month to... 
by Laura Guilliams | Mar 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
What is Victim Blaming, Exactly? To be a good advocate, you have to be an educated advocate. Take a few minutes today to brush up on the idea of “victim blaming”. What is Victim Blaming? When the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held... 
by Laura Guilliams | Mar 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
#RVGives2017 Our goal for #RVGives2017 is to raise $5,000 for survivors of sexual violence. Did you know that SARA helps over 350 people each year who have been impacted by sexual violence? We only expect that number to increase over the next year as we have... 
by Laura Guilliams | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Become a Fundraiser We need your help to meet our goal of raising $5,000 for survivors of sexual violence. This will be our second year participating in Roanoke Valley Gives. Last year, our goal was $5,000 but we ran just short of that goal raising only $3,4000....
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