Our Role as the Stop Abuse Campaign

We see our role as educating and enabling a popular, grassroots movement to stop abuse as well as igniting conversations about abuse so that people start talking and sharing and becoming more involved as a community. A community focused on the common goal of ending abuse.

We will fuel money and resources into causes and organizations invested in our mission of stopping abuse – all abuse. It’s going to take all of us working together as an organized and popular, grassroots movement to affect the necessary changes in law and societal attitudes concerning abuse – by education, activism, and funding.

The Stop Abuse Campaign’s primary strategies to stop abuse:

1. Educate all adults on how to create safe environments for themselves and those that they love.
2. Provide easy access to enhanced mental health treatment to all survivors who need it.
3. Ensure all abuse is reported into the system and effectively handled.
4. Recruit America’s adults to the movement to stop abuse.

Our investments will reflect these priorities.

We view the building of this campaign and this movement as that of a organizing and launching a presidential campaign:

• Invest minimally while testing support for our platform and building partnerships
• A primary phase where we coalesce the willing, building wider support and funding.
• A general election phase where we convince the country to stop abuse and supply them with the tools to do it.

We have substantially completed the first phase and have formed a strategic partnership with NPEIV–the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence. NPEIV is an overarching network of state, regional, and national multidisciplinary, multicultural organizations, agencies, and coalitions. The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma at Alliant International University acts as the fiscal agent for NPEIV. Alliant International University is a registered 501(c)3. NPEIV and is represented on the Stop Abuse Campaign board by
We are working with NPEIV to produce the plan to stop abuse in America within 25 years.

NPEIV has 7 action teams developing the plan. They are:

1. Public Awareness Team: Developing Sunflower Day
2. Training and Mentoring: Addressing training needs across the professions
3. Practice: Increasing evidence based knowledge regarding best practices, for competent services at every level.
4. Research: Promoting research on connections across types of violence, integrating practice issues into research, supporting basic and applied research.
5. Public Policy: Co-ordinating education for policy impact, identifying needs, and developing research involved policy.
6. Dissemination/Translation: Developing strategies to translate research into practice and policy (and vice versa), developing a dissemination plan.
7. Networking/Community Capacity Building and Publicity/Public Relations

Details can be found in this NPEIV PDF brochure

To enable the teams to effectively develop a plan NPEIV and the Stop Abuse Campaign will jointly apply for grants to support three consultant facilitators to the seven action teams. Action Teams will be enabled by public discussion boards where they can reach consensus.

Successful execution of our primary and general election phases.
Our primary phase has one objective; recruit more than 10,000 members to the StopAbuse Campaign before March 21st, 2012 enabling the successful launch of our viral ‘General Election’ campaign, My Sunflower Promise. Board member, Ron Wicke takes the lead on this 10,000 member initiative.