Stalking Awareness & Prevention Month

Join Safer in navigating our space together for Stalking Awareness & Prevention Month through our digital campaign: Know the Case, Reclaim the Space. 

Follow our outreach campaign all month long on Instagram at @calpolysafer. 

Learn the basics about stalking here!

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LIVE Boundaries Workshop, with Close to Home

Join Safer and Close to Home on Wednesday, January 27th from 12-1pm for a facilitated workshop on boundaries: defining them, recognizing various types, enforcing your own, respecting others, and addressing the harm when boundaries are crossed.

Click here to register! All community members are welcome to attend!

Stalking Q&A on IGTV: Submit a Question!

As a part of Stalking Awareness and Prevention Month, we will be posting an informative question and answer video regarding a variety of subtopics relating to stalking behaviors and prevention work.  

We have an incredible group of panelists who will receive and answer the questions you all submit! Feel free to submit any questions via Instagram or use the Google form here.

What questions do you have about anything stalking related?

Submit a question here: https://forms.gle/eCvBhD4cEoAzq8Dd9

History of Stalking Awareness & Prevention Month

In January 2004, the National Center for Victims of Crime launched National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM) to increase the public’s understanding of the crime of stalking. NSAM emerged from the work of the Stalking Resource Center, a National Center program funded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, to raise awareness about stalking and help develop and implement multidisciplinary responses to the crime.

NSAM began in response to a 2003 call to the Stalking Resource Center from Debbie Riddle, the sister of murdered stalking victim Peggy Klinke. Riddle wanted to transform her family’s painful tragedy into a force for good—and to help improve law enforcement’s response to stalking and save lives. Riddle’s call all led to a concurrent Congressional resolution on stalking; a national program on Lifetime Television, hosted by Erin Brockovich, featuring Peggy Klinke’s story; and a Lifetime video, “Stalking: Real Fear, Real Crime,” to train law enforcement about the crime. In July 2003, the National Center for Victims of Crime, in partnership with Representative Heather Wilson (R-NM) and Lifetime Television, told Peggy’s story at a Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill, which focused on strengthening law enforcement’s response to the crime.

That same day, Representative Wilson introduced a Congressional resolution to support National Stalking Awareness Month. The following January, the National Center for Victims of Crime launched the first observance of National Stalking Awareness Month and supported communities across the nation in planning the event (NCVC, 2015).