To help the public better understand the implications and intricacies of the show's themes, this outreach page has been created with the assistance of the Hollywood Health and Society group at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Norman Lear Center. You will find links leading to external pages providing information on topics discussed and related to each week's episode.

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  Sex. Really.

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  RAINN

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  Childhood Obesity

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  Fructose in Junk Food/Soda and Obesity

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  Rise in Diabetes and Heart Disease

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  United Nations' Water for Life Decade

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1) TAKE ACTION TO END THE RAPE KIT BACKLOG:

Human Rights Watch Eliminate the Rape Kit Backlog Page (with "Email your Representative" form!!)
www.hrw.kintera.org/rape-kits

Joyful Heart Foundation Page on Rape Kit Backlog
http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/advocacy_rapekitbacklog.htm

Joyful Heart “End the Backlog” Page
http://www.endthebacklog.org

California legislation that is currently awaiting a signature/veto from Governor Schwarzenegger that are related to forensic evidence backlog.

Contact the Governor:
http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact

AB 558 (Portantino): Would prospectively require counties to report the number of rape kits they are processing or requesting from labs. This would give the state a holistic view of how many kits we are dealing with in general. Currently such information is not available unless someone calls all 58 counties individually.

AB 2009 (Logue): Would direct more funds from special funds to be used for expediting the backlog in forensic evidence.

2) GET HELP IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE:

RAINN
http://www.rainn.org/index.php

RAINN Online Hotline
http://online.rainn.org

3) PREVENT RAPE IN OUR COMMUNITIES:

Men Can Stop Rape
http://www.mencanstoprape.org/

Take Back the Night
http://www.takebackthenight.org/

CDC Sexual Violence Factsheet
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pub/SV_factsheet.html

Get the latest on rape kit backlogs:
http://www.hrw.org/node/81826

Learn More About Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation:
http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/index.html