I'm a freshman, I've been on this campus for two weeks

and I was sexually assaulted six days ago.

And no one tells you where to go from there.

NARRATOR: Most people can't comprehend

the trauma of sexual assault. But Rosemary Trible

understands.

She survived a rape at gunpoint.

Her Emmy award winning documentary

Be the Change teaches students about the risks

of sexual assault on campus, and challenges universities to make

campuses safe for everyone.

Rosemary Trible is here with us now.

And we welcome you to the show today, Rosemary.

Thank you, I'm honored to be here with you.

Well this is a subject near and dear to your heart

because you have personally experienced this.

You were a victim.

Yes back in 1975.

I'd done a show, a television talk show on sexual assault

and a rapist saw the show and was infuriated.

Four days later he put a gun to my head and said,

OK, cute talk show host, what do you do with a gun in your head?

So I went through my own night of complete horror.

And at the end he drug me to the window, and again with that gun

said, I know who you are, I know where you live,

and I promise I'll kill you if you tell.

And that's that dagger of fear that a victim

feels, which is sometimes worse in the journey of healing

than even that moment.

But the moment he was out that window

I reported him and he was never found.

But that's not what happens most of the time.

I mean, that fear that is established in that moment

keeps a lot of victims silent.

I mean, what are you doing to counter that?

To bring women to the place-- and men,

because sometimes it's a male that is accosted like this--

to the place where they're free to say,

this happened to me, help.

And even though we're seeing those reportings going up,

part of that is positive because it

means that young men and women, it affects both,

are actually reporting.

Silence is the greatest enemy of healing.

And they say that one in five female students

will be sexually assaulted during their four

years in college.

But one in 16 men will experience

some form of sexual assault. So what we're doing

is having three different programs that

can help a university throughout an entire year

to combat sexual assault, to redeem and restore

those sexually assaulted, bringing them hope and healing.

But secondly, Terry, to change the cultural understanding

our college campuses to empower these students to be the change

and how to work with other people that come to them

that have been affected.

So we have three different programs that we are using.

Let's look at what you have here.

All right.

One is our celebration program, which we've

been doing for three years.

And we're putting together these Fear 2 Freedom

kits for those that go to the hospital

or to a rape crisis center that have been sexually assaulted.

They don't realize that all their clothes

have to be kept for evidence.

And so in our hospitals they're walking out in paper scrubs.

So these are sized sweatpants, t-shirt, underwear, toiletries

all the way up to 2x.

And it has toothpaste, toothbrush, a brush,

sometimes they're going to foster care,

sometimes they're going to a shelter.

And then this little freedom bear

is one of the most special things.

The forensic nurse would give this little bear to the victim

and say, he has a little backpack.

Take out a little piece of paper,

write the person's name that wounded you,

or a stick figure if you're a child.

Open up the heart of the bear and put it inside.

And as you feel a little stronger,

take it out and put it in water.

It's dissolving paper.

So first the words disappear and then

the whole paper disappears as a symbol they don't

have to stay stuck as a victim.

Just recently at George Mason-- and we've

done this event for three years here at Regent and Liberty--

but a young woman came up to me and said, I have a bear.

And I knew immediately what she meant.

And as I held her she said, you'll

never know being able to put on fresh clothes.

To also get the note that the students write personally

after they assemble the kits that goes in that kit

to the victim.

And then they actually put it in the ambulance.

And she said holding that little bear

and continuing to sleep with that beer every night

has changed my life.

So now we have expanded nationally.

To this day we've done over 13,000 of these Fear 2 Freedom

kits to victims.

In 18 universities and with 30 hospitals and community groups.

But now we want to reach 400 universities

across this country.

And we're doing this by this film.

Talk about the film.

It's-- be the change.

Yes.

And what do you want to accomplish with it?

What is saying?

Well, what it's doing is it's talking about consent,

bystander intervention.

It's giving survivors telling their stories.

It's giving United States senators

who actually put together these Fear 2 Freedom

kits, which was an extraordinary event just a few weeks ago.

But it's sharing about the importance of nationally being

concerned about this issue.

And it also provides a yearlong programming.

So it has discussion groups, it has

the president challenging them to sign a pledge

to be the change.

They take home a little pocket resource

card that has their pledge, but also has national statistics,

but also they put in their own-- the university--

their police, their counseling.

So it's a real positive tool.

It can be used for sororities, fraternities, athletics,

the Washington Redskins are supporting us.

In fact, we're doing a Redskins event this next Monday.

You know what I love about it is that it really

gives people who have a genuine concern about this voice.

Yes.

I mean, it's more than just going, tsk,

tsk, tsk, shouldn't do that.

It's standing up and being heard and making

the entire campus feel some sense of responsibility for it.

Well we want to mention you won an Emmy with Be The Change,

and so that certainly has been a plus.

Well that was certainly a surprise and a blessing to us.

But more than anything it just helps

universities across the country know that we

are a good, sound program.

Top notch.

And that this film is very professionally done

and can help them in so many ways.

So we hope people will go to our website fear2freedom.org/change

and they can see the trailer of the film if they wish.

That's wonderful.

You're doing a great work and touching

many, many lives along the way.

I want to say, if you'd like more information Be the Change

program or Faith to Freedom, log on to cbn.com

and we'll lead you to all of that.

And if you've been the victim of abuse in your past

and you need someone to talk to, give us a call.

We have someone standing by right

now by the phones ready to pray with you.

You don't even have to tell us who

you are, you can call anonymously and just say,

will you pray with me.

The number us toll free, it's 1-800-700-7000 and we'd love

to hear from you, love to pray with you today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What a privilege to be with you.

Thank you, Terry.