10/05/2026
❕On 10/8/26, we join National Day of Action to Stop Sexual Violence❕The nation is demanding accountability, institutional reform, and safety for survivors across communities, universities, workplaces, and government institutions.
🗓️ 10/8/26
⏰ Starting at 4:00pm
📍 Salinas, N. main and Harden Parkway
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING - SA Statistics —
According to Rainn.org:
• An estimated 443,634 rapes and sexual assaults are perpetrated every year in the U.S. against people age 12 and older. This is the total number of victimizations—not individual victims. It is not uncommon for someone to experience sexual violence more than once.
• An estimated 301,580 people ages 12 and up are harmed by sexual violence every year in the U.S., according to the National Crime Victimization Survey. That’s 826 people every day.
Many of these survivors are victimized more than once. Children, in particular, face an increased risk of repeat, ongoing sexual abuse.
• At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.
That’s according to U.S. child protective services records. The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.
The reality is that sexual violence affects more children than any single data source can show.
• Most identified survivors of child sexual abuse are girls, but boys also experience serious harm. Child protective services records show that boys make up a larger share of identified survivors among younger children than among teenagers. According to child protective services records, boys account for 30% of sexual abuse survivors ages 0-11. Among the ages 12-17, boys account for 11%. Every child harmed by sexual abuse deserves protection, support, and specialized care.
• Prevention can work when communities address the conditions that allow harm to happen; Teaching healthy relationship skills, helping people intervene safely, creating schools & workplaces where harmful behavior is taken seriously, strengthening economic stability, connecting survivors with support.
