South Whidbey student designs poster for sexual assault awareness

Jeffrey Parker, a 10th-grader at South Whidbey High School, was one of two Whidbey students whose poster design was chosen for Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign and exhibit.

April 10, 2015 6:55 pm
Jeffrey Parker designed one of two CADA posters.
Jeffrey Parker designed one of two CADA posters.

Jeffrey Parker, a 10th-grader at South Whidbey High School, was one of two Whidbey students whose poster design was chosen for Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign and exhibit.

South Whidbey, Oak Harbor and Coupeville high schools all participated in the contest, which began on Feb. 18 and ended March 13.

Approximately 40 students submitted designs for consideration, and two winners were selected.

Second place went to Naira Diptee, an 11th-grader from Oak Harbor High School.

The winners received a $50 Visa gift card and will have their posters featured at the sexual assault awareness exhibit at Oak Harbor Library on April 23.

The students’ work depicts ideas in line with the organization’s theme for this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The theme, according to Casey Elizabeth Scott-Mitchell, education and prevention coordinator, explores the idea of how sexual assault is conversed in society. There is an added emphasis on being informed and not “excusing” sexual assault.