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Intervention
The sexual assault prevention movement started with intervention – brave, trailblazing activists who named the crime, got laws on the books, and built shelters to provide support and services to victims, helping them on their journey toward being survivors.
Sexual assault is pandemic. The numbers – as many as 17.7 million women and 2.78 million men have been victims of sexual assault – are staggering. The foundation of WCASA’s work is providing resources to agencies which provide direct services to the faces behind those numbers.
Some of our Intervention related programming includes:
• SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner)
• SART (Sexual Assault Response Team)
• SAVAS (Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy School)
• CCR (Community Coordinated Response teams)
State Resources
- Madison/Dane Co - the Rape Crisis Center announces Drop In Support Groups for Fall 2011
- WI Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry Program
- Department of Justice (DOJ) Victim/Witness Rights resource page
National Resources
- Start By Believing - campaign by EVAW (Ending Violence Against Women) International
- VAWNet – Disaster and Emergency Preparedness and Response: Resources for Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence and their Advocates – resource collection page
- Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center (PFML/CVC) www.parentsformeganslaw.org – provides national Helpline community support and assistance on issues related to Megan’s Law, sex offender management and sexual assault prevention. 1-(888) 275-7365.
- 1 in 6 for Men – for male survivors;
also en español: http://1in6.org/bajo-desarrollo/
Resources for Advocates, Practitioners, and First Responders
- Tool Kit For Law Enforcement Use Of The U‐Visa
– This toolkit, put together by Legal Momentum and the Vera Institute in Nov. 2010, is designed to assist law enforcement agencies develop U-visa certification policies/protocols to enable immigrant victims of crime to access the U-visa. It is hosted on the NSVRC website .
- The Online Training Institute (OLTI) – a project of EVAWI (Ending Violence Against Women International) provides extensive information in a series of 12 training modules for multidisciplinary professionals involved in sexual assault response
Other Related Topics
Vanderbilt University Study
Carrie Carretta, a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University is initiating a study examining the impact of sexual violence. This study is confidential, and is for female survivors of sexual assault between the ages of 18 and 64; for more information, visit the study site or download the flyer .
Eliminating the Rape Kit Backlog Report
The Office of Violence Against Women has released the report and summary from the roundtable conducted in May of this year looking into the DNA Backlog. The report is available as a downloadable PDF (, 4.3MB) from the OVW site.
Pentagon Report on Sexual Assault Trends at Military Academies
The Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) issued their “Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the U.S. Military Service Academies” [link to page with ]; the report revealed a 64% increase in sexual assault reports from the previous year, and found that over 90% of assaults go unreported. The report also indicated nearly 80% of sexual harassment incidents go unreported by both men and women because cadets feel it is "not important."
[for more information on sexual assault in the Military, see Class & Culture under Considerations of Identity...]
