January is Stalking Awareness Month, and OCADSV has gathered information to help advocates raise awareness in their communities and tools to assist in ensuring victim safety. Below are the descriptions for the PDF documents that can be accessed by clicking on the links. More information is also available at http://www.stalkingawarenessmonth.org/.
Stalking Protocol: This article contains helpful information about how your community can create an effective stalking protocol that focuses on community collaboration with law enforcement.
Stalking Incident and Behavior Log: This article contains information to assist stalking victims in keeping an incident and behavior log, as well as a template of a log that can be used.
Oregon Address Confidentiality Program: This article contains information about Oregon's Address Confidentiality Program, including services provided and contact information.
Stalking Sacks: This article provides advocates with a list of ideas for creating stalking sacks, which are bags of resources that may be helpful to victims.
Ten Things to Know/Fact Sheet/Stalking Myths: These three documents contain statistics and other information that may be useful for press releases and other awareness month activities.
Stalking Brochure: This document is a brochure containing facts about stalking, which your agency can print and hand out in your office or at awareness month activities.
Sample Press Release: This document is a sample press release that your agency can use in preparing newspaper articles or other media coverage of Stalking Awareness Month.