The second annual Blue Out at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium raised more than $79,000 for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. The funds will benefit sexual abuse prevention efforts throughout the coalition’s network of 50 rape crisis centers.
A pair of students, Laura March and Stuart Shapiro, coordinated the event in collaboration with One Heart: Penn State Students Against the Sexual Abuse of Children. The pair joined representatives from Neebo, the Family Clothesline and the Penn State Book Store to present a check to PCAR’s CEO Delilah Rumburg and Vice President of Communications and Development Kristen Houser on the eve of the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Conference at University Park.
“The efforts led by Laura and Stuart and all of the One Heart volunteers who fundraised before the Sept. 22 game against Temple will enhance sexual abuse prevention efforts throughout the commonwealth,” PCAR CEO Delilah Rumburg said. “Local communities are hungry for prevention education since the Sandusky case broke last year. We are honored that Penn State students selected PCAR as their vehicle to support community-based prevention.”
The students designed and sold more than 7,000 Blue Out T-shirts in addition to other fundraising efforts during the weeks prior to kickoff Sept. 22.
This student-led effort is just one example of how the Penn State community is actively addressing the problem of child sexual abuse.
PCAR and Penn State have collaborated to train more than 9,000 mandated reporters to recognize and report child sexual abuse since April. The face-to-face sessions instruct employees who work with children at summer camps and workshops at Penn State campuses across the commonwealth.
Online sessions also are being developed for all university employees at every campus location. Penn State officials expect the online training to be available in early 2013.
Penn State Outreach and Continuing Education offices are also working with local rape crisis centers in communities across Pennsylvania to share resources and provide education to adults on preventing child sexual abuse.
Pennsylvania lawmakers also passed new legislation that allows experts to provide testimony about victim behavior in sexual assault cases. The legislation was proposed prior to the Sandusky trial, but failed to reach a vote before garnering media attention during the Sandusky trial. Pennsylvania was the last state in the country to allow expert witness testimony in sexual assault cases.
A pair of students, Laura March and Stuart Shapiro, coordinated the event in collaboration with One Heart: Penn State Students Against the Sexual Abuse of Children. The pair joined representatives from Neebo, the Family Clothesline and the Penn State Book Store to present a check to PCAR’s CEO Delilah Rumburg and Vice President of Communications and Development Kristen Houser on the eve of the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Conference at University Park.
“The efforts led by Laura and Stuart and all of the One Heart volunteers who fundraised before the Sept. 22 game against Temple will enhance sexual abuse prevention efforts throughout the commonwealth,” PCAR CEO Delilah Rumburg said. “Local communities are hungry for prevention education since the Sandusky case broke last year. We are honored that Penn State students selected PCAR as their vehicle to support community-based prevention.”
The students designed and sold more than 7,000 Blue Out T-shirts in addition to other fundraising efforts during the weeks prior to kickoff Sept. 22.
This student-led effort is just one example of how the Penn State community is actively addressing the problem of child sexual abuse.
PCAR and Penn State have collaborated to train more than 9,000 mandated reporters to recognize and report child sexual abuse since April. The face-to-face sessions instruct employees who work with children at summer camps and workshops at Penn State campuses across the commonwealth.
Online sessions also are being developed for all university employees at every campus location. Penn State officials expect the online training to be available in early 2013.
Penn State Outreach and Continuing Education offices are also working with local rape crisis centers in communities across Pennsylvania to share resources and provide education to adults on preventing child sexual abuse.
Pennsylvania lawmakers also passed new legislation that allows experts to provide testimony about victim behavior in sexual assault cases. The legislation was proposed prior to the Sandusky trial, but failed to reach a vote before garnering media attention during the Sandusky trial. Pennsylvania was the last state in the country to allow expert witness testimony in sexual assault cases.