Engaging Your Community During (and After) SAAM

Share Away!  Social Media Templates & Graphics for Your Platforms

Graphic design, content calendars, and captions are a lot of work! Lucky for you, our team did all the heavy lifting so you can download, schedule, and post away all throughout the month of April to keep your community engaged!

• Ready-to-use graphics in English & Spanish
• Customizable templates, so you can add your own logo and details, in English & Spanish. (Make sure you go to File > Make a Copy before editing the templates!)
  • SAAM/April Event Calendar
  • Teal Day
  • Hotline Highlight
  • Highlight Services Offered
  • Post a photo from a SAAM event
  • Denim Day
    
• Suggested captions in English & Spanish

This can help your followers understand what’s going on in Ohio and how we can join together as a state against sexual violence and Shape Ohio Together! You’ll see an example of the posts below, and all you have to do is visit our Resource Library. You can also access this via Coalition Manager, located under Resource Manager. If you need help accessing our resources, just reach out at info@oaesv.org.

Here you can see our suggested content calendar for the month of April. We’ve included a few free spaces so you can add in your own special events, promos, and messaging. Consider making a reel of your staff sharing a message of hope to survivors. All you have to do is:

1. Download the ready-to-go materials
2. Use Canva to personalize any templates you want to use (go to file > make a copy, first!)
3. Schedule the posts to your social media using the free scheduling tools on Facebook, Twitter, and Canva or by using a free program like Hootsuite.

Sample Social Media Calendar for Member Programs

Engage!

We hope you have multiple opportunities to engage with survivors, other advocates, co-survivors, community members, and partners during SAAM. Social media can be extremely helpful and a powerful way to facilitate discussions and to share information. Consider these ideas for additional content:

• Write and post blogs (and invite volunteers to do the same!) that show your staff’s
• Suggest ways for community members in your service area to act against sexual violence
• Post videos of you and your staff explaining what it means to you to #ShapeOhioTogether
• Remind your followers about your organization’s mission

Zoom & Teams Backgrounds

Pretty self-explanatory – linked here, you’ll find #EmbraceYourVoice Zoom & Teams virtual backgrounds, so that you can remind folks about SAAM during your virtual events, or even while you’re in meetings. These are set up as templates so that you can add your logo (that’s what the empty photo frames are for) and make other small adjustments as needed for you and your staff.

Facebook Profile Picture Frame

In our digital toolkit, you’ll find a template to add your photos to post a custom Facebook profile photo that promotes SAAM! This will let all your followers know that you support survivors and is the perfect way to raise awareness.

Instagram Story Stickers

In our digital toolkit, you’ll find stickers you can add to your Instagram stories to strike up conversation and promote SAAM! You’ll also find an instructional sheet on how to add them to your story for iPhone, Android, and Samsung users.

Mark Your Calendars

• OAESV Advocacy Day Prep Webinar (OAESV), 4/5/23 from 1-2:30pm

  • We’re very excited to connect with you to talk all about Advocacy Day! Come find out all that you need to know in order to make sure our state gets the support needed from the Ohio legislature—#TheTimeIsNow!
  • Registration will be posted on oaesv.org/advocacyday. Please note that if you are registering to attend Advocacy Day, it’s very important for you to attend this webinar or to watch the recording. Let’s all get on the same page so we can be even more powerful at the statehouse!

• SAAM Day of Action, 4/5/22

  • You know it—you’ll never see more teal than on April 5th! Break out all of your favorite teal items, share some photos and videos on social media (don’t forget #ShapeOhioTogether), and, when the time is right, engage in discussions about the realities of sexual violence in Ohio

• Gear Up for Advocacy Day, 4/19/23 – 4/20/23

  • In the days leading up to our time with legislators, join us online and share posts on your social media pages that represent your responses to these Be sure to tag us and use #ShapeOhioTogether!
    • Monday, 4/26/23
      • What does it mean to you to #ShapeOhioTogether?
      • If your organization is participating in OAESV’s Advocacy Day, how will you use that to #ShapeOhioTogether?

• Tuesday, 4/20/23 – ADVOCACY DAY – An In-Person Event at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus

• • • Share a picture of your staff taking part in Advocacy Day! You can also tweet throughout the day to keep your followers up-to-date on the most impactful parts of your experience. Include #ShapeOhioTogether, #TheTimeIsNow, and maybe an original hashtag created by your organization!

• Denim Day, 4/26/23

  • Join the national moment! For over 21 years, supporters have engaged in wearing jeans as a form of protest against an all-too-common issue of victim blaming. According to org, this came after “a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans, she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent.” You can use this as an opportunity to have expanded discussions about the various ways survivors face victim blaming, and provide your communities with proper responses to disclosures of sexual assault. Again, use your creativity in incorporating your denim while social distancing.

Now, Mark Our Calendars, Please!

Are you holding virtual events throughout SAAM? Email our Communications and Content Coordinator Laurie Hamame at Lhamame@oaesv.org to have your events added to our promo calendar that we’ll share throughout the month! This gives people all over Ohio a chance to find a space where they can provide support and participate in this powerful month of raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of sexual violence.