Designated
as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), April
brings an annual opportunity to focus awareness
on sexual violence and its prevention. It is also
an opportunity to highlight the efforts of individuals
and agencies that provide rape crisis intervention
and prevention services while offering support to
sexual assault survivors, victims and their families.
SAAM raises awareness of sexual violence and its
prevention through special events while highlighting
sexual violence as a major public health issue and
reinforces the need for prevention efforts.
Alcohol
Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Council
on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)
since 1987, encourages local communities to focus
on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues. Alcohol
Awareness Month began as a way of reaching the American
public with information about the disease of alcoholism
that it is a treatable disease, not a moral weakness,
and that alcoholics can and do recover.
