This week we at SAFER feel a little bit like we’ve just given birth—our new website is finally live! Please check it out. We’re really excited about it, and hope ya’ll like it too. Thanks to the folks at Quilted for making it happen.

Some notable changes about the new site: the homepage links you directly to our three main services, our trainings, our Campus Sexual Assault Policies Database, and our new Activist Resource Center (ARC).

Both the database and the ARC require visitors to register and login, but while the database is open to everyone, the ARC is only for folks who register as students. The ARC holds all of the organizing tools, strategies, and tips that SAFER has for all you students working to change how your campus deals with sexual assault. We have materials on how to be an effective organizer, how to analyze the power structure on your campus, case studies, suggestions for projects, and much more. This is just the beginning—we have big plans for this resource center, and will definitely be adding to it in the future. Definitely let us know if there’s something specific you would like to see included. We also want it to eventually turn into a place to highlight the work that students are doing, so if you have a succesful peer education curriculum, poster, zine, research paper, or any other piece of your work on campus sexual assault, send it our way!

If you check out the database you’ll notice a new option to “submit a school.” That’s part of a whole other project we’ll be announcing soon. We have been VERY busy this fall…

Finally, SAFER recently took on a bunch of awesome new Board members, so if you want to see who we all are, look here. As I’ve said before, we are all volunteers here, and have a very very small budget. If you like the new site, consider sending us a few dollars to help us pay for it!