ImpACT
INSPIRING ACTION AND GETTING RESULTS
Since 2018, Support Over Silence for KIDS has been offered to community members, businesses, university students, and hospital personnel. Our program is having an impact on communities!
84%
OF PARTICIPANTS
Agree or strongly agree that the program changed their attitudes about their role in the community*
87%
OF PARTICIPANTS
Agree or strongly agree that they feel confident that they can do something to help caregivers and their children*
97%
OF PARTICIPANTS
Agree or strongly agree that they will pay more attention to caregivers and their children*
“To reframe my role as a community member, it isn't my job to be a walking talking parenting class - just be supportive.”
- Training Participant
*PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS
Taylor ME, Weaver NL, Weaver TL, Loux TM, Kutz TJ. Evaluation of Support Over Silence for KIDS: A Bystander Training Program to Address Public Child Maltreatment. Journal of Family Violence. 2022.
Murugan V, Weaver TL, Taylor, M, Weaver NL, Diltz A. Addressing caregiver-child conflict in public: Barriers and facilitators to bystander engagement. Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development. 2021.
Weaver NL, Taylor ME, Weaver TL, Kutz TJ. Support Over Silence for KIDS: A bystander training program to address public child maltreatment. Children and Youth Services Review. 2020;118.
Mujal GN, Taylor ME, Fry JL, Gochez-Kerr TH, Weaver NL. A Systematic Review of Bystander Interventions for the Prevention of Sexual Violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 2019.
METHODS: Support Over Silence for KIDS was evaluated using pre- and post-program questionnaires to capture baseline attitudes, confidence for intervening, and barriers to intervening. Participants were also given a post-program questionnaire to share their degree of satisfaction with the training and what they intend to do differently because of the program. A three-month follow up survey was sent to participants via email.