SAAM Events
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April 2024: Building Connected Communities
'Building Connected Communities' recognizes the power of community in fostering a sense of belonging across diversity, while also being critical in ensuring our communities are safe, inclusive, equitable, and address various forms of oppression and mitigate sexual violence.
Show your solidarity by downloading and using these Zoom Backgrounds.
Event Details
All Month: Clothesline Project Online Event
The Clothesline Project brings awareness to interpersonal violence and sexual assault. Color coded t-shirts, which represent different forms of violence, are decorated to honor survivors and share messages, stories, and reactions.
April 2: Spill the Title IX Tea-sdays
Join the Title IX Office for brain-tingling trivia to test your knowledge of various topics while enjoying a cup of tea. Save the date for more trivia sessions at Golden West College on April 16 and April 30.
- Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm (PDT)
- Location: OCC Student Union Lobby
April 3: Your Body, Your Rules - Even Online
Tech-facilitated sexual violence is on the rise. Consent, or the lack thereof, is central to revenge porn (nonconsensual distribution of intimate images), cyberflashing & sextortion. We'll explore the concept of digital bodily autonomy, how consent is treated differently online, and the need to foster a consent-based digital culture on campus and in our relationships. Presented by Adam Dodge at EndTab.
- Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Time: 12 - 1pm (PDT)
- Location: OCC Student Union 214
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 4: Movies for Mental Health
Trauma is a growing mental health concern and often we do not know how to begin our recovery process. Stories through film is a powerful medium to evoke feelings, help us identify with others, and bring healing. Join Mental Health Services and Umoja as we connect with ourselves and others through short films about mental health.
- Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Time: 6 - 8pm (PDT)
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 10: Green Dot Bystander Training
Interested in learning about bystander intervention and how to end power-based personal violence on campus? Join us for a brief overview of the 4 D's, which are choices and actions you make in response to a potentially harmful situation.
- Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Time: 12 - 1pm (PDT)
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 10: Yoga as Healing
Yoga is an empowering practice that prioritizes the lived experience and healing of each survivor. Join us in a trauma informed class that is centered on connecting survivors with community and healing.
- Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Time: 5 - 6pm (PDT)
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 16: Spill the Title IX Tea-sdays
Join the Title IX Office for brain-tingling trivia to test your knowledge of various topics while enjoying a cup of tea.
- Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm (PDT)
- Location: GWC Lounge
April 17: They Came for Taylor Swift! Emerging Challenges to our Digital Safety
The online spaces we inhabit consistently manifest emerging threats to our digital safety and well-being - including synthetic nude images, trackers, AI-powered catfishing, and image-based stalking. This session dives into these digital challenges, while offering practical strategies to confidently navigate, avoid and counter these emerging threats to our emotional, physical, and digital well-being. Presented by Adam Dodge at EndTab.
- Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Time: 12 - 1pm (PDT)
- Location: OCC Student Union 214
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 18: Healthy Relationships
Communication skills are critical to a healthy relationship. Join us to learn about consent, creating boundaries, and practice communication skills for your dating relationships. Participants will receive safe dating resources.
- Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Time: 5 - 6pm (PDT)
- Location: Online via Zoom
April 24: Denim Day
The Denim Day campaign hopes to bring awareness to victim blaming and destructive myths that surround rape and sexual violence. Wear jeans with a purpose and meet up at Noon for a group photo with others wearing denim.
Post a picture on your college app or Instagram and tag @orangecoast @coastline_oc and @goldenwestcollege with hastags, #myjeansprotestviolence #denimday.
Use Denim Day Zoom Backgrounds for photo backdrops and online meetings.
- Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Time: 12pm (PDT)
- Location: Student Services Center in Fountain Valley Main Lobby
April 30: Spill the Title IX Tea-sdays
Join the Title IX Office for brain-tingling trivia to test your knowledge of various topics while enjoying a cup of tea.
- Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm (PDT)
- Location: GWC Lounge
All Zoom links and passcodes will be emailed at least one week prior to each event.
These events are ADA compliant. Reasonable accommodation requests related to a disability should be made no later than five business days prior to this event by contacting dos@coastline.edu.
If you or someone you know has experienced any sexual harassment/violence, please contact our office for support, resources, and to file a complaint. For resources and/or to file a report visit Title IX website or email lfleming5@coastline.edu.