SafeBAE annual report 2017 - Flipbook - Page 2
SafeBAE
We Are SafeBAE
is a survivor-founded organization which educates middle and highschool students about healthy relationships, dating violence and sexual
assault prevention, positive consent advocacy, safe bystander
intervention, survivor self care, and survivor rights under Title IX. We
are a national organization with our key demographic focus being 12-18
year olds, but we also work with their caretakers, teachers, school
administrators, athletic coaches, religious leaders, and local direct
service providers.
SafeBAE
defines the core issues of rape culture and sexual assault as the single
most dangerous and impacting events in the lives of young people today.
The statistics show the rate of assaults as significantly higher than any
other age demographic, yet our culture offers little in the way of
education or opportunities to change this epidemic.
SafeBAE
was founded by us in 2015. Daisy, Ella, and Jada are teen sexual-assault
survivors and together with Charlie (Daisy’s brother) and Shael (our
executive director) we created SafeBAE in an effort to prevent what
happened to us from happening to anyone else (the BAE in SafeBAE stands for
“before anyone else.”) During the filming of the Peabody Award-winning
Netflix documentary, ‘Audrie & Daisy,’ we began incubating the idea for
SafeBAE when we realized the single most common and important theme among
all our stories was the lack of sexual-violence prevention, consent
education and Title IX knowledge there was in our high schools. It was
clear to us that education about these issues needs to happen pre-college,
in middle school or early high school, when attitudes about intimacy and
boundaries and dating safety were just forming.
SafeBAE
programs, initiatives, and partnerships are created with the collective
input and support from the four founders, the Board of Directors, and the
Advisory Board members in collaboration with the Executive Director.
Our team developed (and continues to grow) a series of activist and
educational tools - materials and engagement resources - that students
themselves can access to help shift attitudes and cultures. We are
uniquely positioned, as young people, to reach and more concretely
influence the youth we are targeting.
Our materials can be used by anyone (FOR FREE!) - students, parents, direct service
agencies, educators - to raise awareness about sexual violence prevention and
resources, to humanize the faces of survivors, and to provide survivor support help
if/when a friend or loved one reports.
Please join us!
Daisy, Ella, Jada, Charlie, Shael