Message Matters: Talking About Health Equity

Message Matters: Talking About Health Equity
This document offers strategies for engaging with communities about health equity by aligning messages with the values of specific audiences.
Plain Language for Sexual Assault, Abuse, and Harassment
This 30-minute course explains why plain language is important for messaging about sexual violence and provides opportunities to practice using plain language.
: Reframing the Conversation About Sexual Harassment, Abuse, and Assault
This 30-minute course explores how the general public understands sexual violence. It provides opportunities to practice reframing messages about sexual violence to get at root causes and ultimately change how people understand it.
6 Elements of an Effective Prevention Message
This 30-minute course teaches you how to create effective messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault. It includes slide visuals, audio narration, and interactive quizzes to help you practice what you learn. 
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This resource is comprised of tools to help build relationships with journalists and inform news coverage about sexual harassment, abuse, and assault.
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Develop effective messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault that will resonate with different audiences with this guide. This guide, a joint publication between Berkeley Media Studies Group and NSVRC, provides recommendations on how to frame sexual violence, develop effective messages about prevention, and work with the media to inform and educate the public.