“Start Past Times Believing” Campaign

“Start past times Believing” is a national populace awareness campaign designed to alter the means nosotros answer to victims of rape together with sexual laid upwardly on inward our communities. All equally good often, sexual violence survivors who accept the courage to state soul what happened are blamed for bringing it on themselves.

The City of Richmond kicked off the “Start past times Believing” drive amongst a formal commitment signing past times Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones on Tuesday Apr 21 at City Hall.

The Reynolds Police Department conducted “Start past times Believing” campaigns on Apr 21 together with 22 at all 3 Reynolds campuses, encouraging students, faculty together with staff to back upwardly victims of rape together with sexual laid upwardly on past times signing a pledge together with wearing a teal Reynolds “I Believe” button. The buttons were distributed at the signing booths together with the Reynolds Police Department.  The Reynolds community responded, amongst well-nigh 150 pledges signed together with 1,500 teal "I Believe" buttons distributed together with spotted on shirts on all 3 campuses.

Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon L. Taylor together with members of her staff stopped past times the signing booth at the Parham Road Campus to lend their back upwardly to this of import campaign.