April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a month set aside across the nation for every community to collectively focus upon the societal problem of sexual violence and ways in which services like ours are working to eradicate it.

The purpose of Sexual Assault Awareness Month is to increase the public's understanding about sexual violence in our society.

This effort can help communities support rape and sexual assault survivors, victims, and their families, as well as the individuals and agencies that provide rape crisis intervention and prevention services throughout the year.

In an effort to encourage the campus community to take steps to address sexual violence. The hope is that a week of intensified awareness efforts combined with the broad spectrum of sexual violence prevention work throughout the year will bring us closer to ending sexual assault. (text needs revision here)