Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention, & Response (SAPIR) Task Force, is a coordinating council that plays a key role in making the campus a safer place. Every April, SAPIR offers a month of events dedicated to Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). This year’s SAAM campaign focuses on the power of asking for consent. You can join IUPUI and its community in raising awareness about sexual violence, celebrating survivors, and educating each other by checking out some of this month’s events!
SAPIR will begin Sexual Assault Awareness Month with speaker Tricia Benitez, drug and addiction treatment specialist with Addictions Campuses in Nashville, Tennessee. In this talk Benitez will touch on her own powerful story of addiction and dysfunctional relationships in hopes of ensuring students get the help they or others need on their campus, as well as showing students what a healthy relationship looks like.
Tuesday, April 2
Healthy Relationships: College and Beyond
Speaker: Tricia Benitez
Campus Center Theatre *5:50 – 6:30 p.m.
Partners: Interfraternity Council (IFC)
Wednesday, April 3
Clothesline Project
Campus Center Atrium * 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Partners: Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention and Response Taskforce (SAPIR), Office for Women (OFW), IUPUI Panhellenic, IFC
Wednesday, April 10
It’s On Us Pledge Day
Taylor Courtyard * 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Partners: Sigma Psi Zeta, SAPIR, OFW
Wednesday, April 10
Film Screening: Audrie and Daisy
The Tower, Deans Room * 6 p.m.
Partners: Housing and Resident Life (HRL), Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), SAPIR, Office for Women
Wednesday, April 17
Self-defense Class with IUPD-IUPUI
(for female-identifying students)
The Tower, Deans Rom * 5 – 7 p.m.
Partners: HRL, CAPS, SAPIR, IUPD-IUPUI
Wednesday, April 24
Denim Day
Campus Center * 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Partners: SAPIR, OFW
Thursday, April 25
Take Back the Night
Campus Center Atrium * 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Partners: SAPIR, Panhellenic, IFC
April 2, 3, 9 and 16
Tabling Events
Multicultural Center * 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Partners: SAPIR, Office for Women
All month
Survivors Share-Allies Support Exhibit
Campus Center Gallery II
Partners: CAPS, SAPIR, OFW
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