First, I actually decided on victim blaming as my main topic. However, later I noticed PTSD while researching about victim blame. These two issues are closely related and I decided to do both and developing them together in my plan. I decided to do victim blame and PTSD because of social media posts and news videos that has comments that’s actually very uncomfortable, which are the judgements that’s being put on the victims and causing them to pressure when they already experienced something really bad. I believe the first step of solving a problem is to make the problem seen by the public and getting people aware. Attention raising is an important call to the solution. I learned my experience from how my attention are caught when I was walking outside and brainstormed how actions can be taken to drawn more sights to the issue.
Some strategies that could be used for the issues of victim blame and PTSD to be seen by more people in the society are posters, volunteer organizations, the avoidance of sensitive wordcases online to prevent people sending hate comments,etc. The use of posters can be able to grab the attention of people that walk nearby. It could be stuck on the walls of different public areas such as schools, business centers, train/ bus stations, hospitals, etc. If the color of the poster is more vivid, then it is easier to catch the eye of passers-by, and the volume of the poster should be large enough to be eye-catching as well. Another strategy, volunteer organizations can also be very useful to educate more people with victim blame and PTSD. Usually teenagers in high school have the requirement of fulfilling a certain amount of volunteer hours and they would be very willing to participate in volunteer organizations. While teenagers are part of the population in the volunteer organization, people that have time and are willing to step into victim blaming and PTSD resolutions can also participate. The volunteers can help create the posters and find public areas or social media to put it. For example, for students, when one person creates a poster, they can receive 1 hour of volunteer time. This can lead to more people willing to participate in volunteer organizations because there are benefits for them which acts as more motivation. When victims and survivors have words to share out and to be heard, the volunteer organization can host a meeting for them and be nice listeners to support them. Workshops and campaigns can also be hosted to educate the community about the impacts of victim blame and PTSD. If possible, they can arrive at schools during student lunch periods to hold conversation and a small lesson with them about the issue. There were usually bully prevention lessons and drug prevention lessons held in middle schools, which can be considered a good idea to imitate.