Happy New Year!

In the coming months we look forward to this becoming a forum where we can offer tips on reducing sexual assault, share current information on topics such as date rape drugs, alcohol and sex, as well as highlight your great ideas (So please keep em’ coming!). We hope you enjoy reading the first of many monthly issues to follow.

A Mother of Resolutions

As 2006 was coming to a close we sat down and began setting goals and resolutions for 2007. To start, we came up with the usual: get in better shape, lose weight and organize our closets. So, after we’re fit, fabulous and super organized, then what? We asked ourselves, what would we consider to be the mother of all resolutions for us? A new challenge beyond what size jeans we want to wear or how great they look folded neatly in our perfectly organized closet. What new endeavor would 2007 bring? It was then that our resolution turned into our new mission and the Unite for Change Campaign was born.

Inspired by the amazing students, survivors and educators we have met and worked with over the years, we wanted to create a place where campuses and communities could share how they were addressing sexual violence. In turn, it would be a place where those seeking guidance could get current information and ideas from our incredible brothers and sisters across the nation. We are making a personal commitment to not only ask campuses and communities to participate in the Unite for Change Campaign but to agree to support those who need help in planning their own event, this year and going forward.

This campaign is about focus, determination, hope and promise. Our hope is that this campaign will help bring new meaning to the term sexual revolution, because this truly is a revolution. We hope that you will join us in this movement. Check out the new web-site at www.uniteforchange.com. We invite you to leave a message on our “Speak Out!” message board and share your commitment to ending sexual violence. Let us know what you think! We look forward to hearing from you and to adding some of the great things you’ve done and continue to do to the web-site.

Wishing you all a fabulous New Year filled with lots of luck, love, happiness and memories that will last a lifetime. Whether you start out 2007 with a customary resolution, a new mission or simply think of it as a clean slate, make time to find your passion, follow your dreams and no matter what, never give up!