Community campaigns

Seven campaign pages, and what is actually inside each one.

These are the research and communication packets the SBA uses for the awareness months that fall inside a FlexJD academic year. They are written to be reused — by a chapter officer building a post, by a student writing a note to their section, by anyone who has been asked to say something on a hard subject and does not want to get it wrong.

Each page follows the same shape, so you can find what you need without reading the whole thing: why this campaign (the framing), at Northeastern Law (what exists on our own campus), the legal framework where one applies, organizations and resources with live links, key facts and framing you can quote, and a content calendar you can post from. Pages that carry crisis content also carry the crisis lines at the top, before anything else.

The campaigns, in academic-year order

The most compact page in the set, and the only one framed across two months, because suicide prevention and domestic violence awareness share a referral pathway and a safe-messaging problem. Includes crisis lines for Northeastern and NUSL, Boston and Massachusetts, and national organizations; peer-supporter training routes; free social-media toolkits; the AFSP Out of the Darkness Walk; safe-messaging guidelines; and a September–October content calendar. Read the safe-messaging section before you write anything.
The longest campaign page on the site. Covers why the week and the day are distinct observances, the legal framework as it currently stands, what exists at Northeastern Law, the organizations doing the work, and framing language for a subject where wording carries real consequences.
Framing, numbers, what happens at Northeastern Law, organizations and resources, quotable facts, and a content calendar for the week around 10 December.
Includes a legal-framework section and a source-and-freshness status block, which matters here more than on most pages: trafficking statistics are widely miscited, and the page names where each figure comes from.
Framing, figures, the legal framework, what exists at Northeastern Law, organizations, quotable facts, a content calendar, and a source-and-freshness status block.
Two observances handled on one page, with the legal framework, campus resources, organizations, framing language, a content calendar, and a source-and-freshness status block.
Two campaigns that run in the same month and are usually treated separately. Carries survivor-support resources alongside fair-housing enforcement material, plus a source-and-freshness status block.

How to use these without creating a problem

Check the crisis lines before you publish. Phone numbers, hours, and the organizations behind them change. Every campaign page that carries a crisis resource links to the organization's own page; open it and confirm the number is still current on the day you post, not the day the page was written.

Follow the safe-messaging guidance on the September page. It applies to more than September. Describing method, framing an outcome as inevitable, or leading with a statistic instead of a route to help are the errors that do measurable harm, and they are easy to make in a hurry.

Quote the source, not this site. These pages are a peer-maintained index. When a figure matters — in a post, a flyer, a grant application, a note to an administrator — cite the organization that published it. The link is on the page for exactly that reason.

Nothing here is a Northeastern position. A campaign page describing what a law or a policy says is describing a public source, not stating the university's view or its obligations to you. If a campaign touches something you need the university to act on, the routes are on the status and reliance notice.

What this library is not

There is no downloadable campaign packet. Earlier versions of this site linked to working-document filenames that were never published in the public repository, and those links have been replaced rather than left to fail — see campaign materials for what exists and how to ask for it.

There is also no campaign page for every awareness month. The seven here are the ones that have been researched to the standard on the verification page. A month missing from this list has not been quietly deprioritised; it has simply not been written yet.

Found something out of date? Campaign pages are reviewed annually and before republication, which means a link can rot in between. Send the page name and what is wrong to collins.ra@northeastern.edu and it will be checked against the original source.
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