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This page has tools for advocacy programs seeking to strengthen services for survivors of sexual violence. The tools below will help individual advocates explore their advocacy practice, and advocacy programs build their capacity to provide comprehensive sexual assault services. In addition to these tools, our staff provides specialized support and training for rural advocacy programs and folks with a transitional housing program. For more exploration, conversations, collaboration, brainstorming, or connection with peers reach out to our staff.

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Resources for Advocacy Programs

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  • Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Child sexual abuse is complex and can affect survivors’ physical health, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, social relationships, and sense of safety well into adulthood. Far too many adult survivors of child sexual abuse suffer in silence, neglect, and isolation. The resources below will help your rural program navigate advocacy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

  • Available Resources

Publication

  • Acción, participación, recuerdos: servicios para sobrevivientes adultos de abuso sexual en la infancia

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  • Adults Molested as Children, Texas Association Against

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  • Action, Engagement, Remembering: Services for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de transición para las personas adultas sobrevivientes de abuso sexual infantil

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • 전환주거에 있는 아동 학대의 성인 생존자의 필요 충족하기

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Meeting The Needs of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Transitional Housing

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Partners in Healing: Supporting Friends & Family

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Opening the Door: Services for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Organizational Highlights

Organizational Highlight

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  • Advocacy Skills

Our ability to help survivors of sexual violence navigate their own personal journey of healing is dependent upon the knowledge we gather and the skills we practice. Sexual violence advocacy requires many intangible skills such as active listening, empathy, building rapport, empowerment, and collaboration. With the resources below you will be able to practice these advocacy skills in order to help survivors find their voices and reclaim their power.

  • Available Resources

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  • Maturing Your Services: Advocating for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Later Life, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Healing the Body: Exploring Comprehensive Medical Advocacy

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  • It Matters! How Defining Sexual Violence Defines Advocacy Programs

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  • Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy

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  • A Welcoming Introduction to Services

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  • Tips for Active Listening

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  • Holistic Healing Services for Survivors

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  • Adiós al menú: cómo ampliar el alcance de la intercesoría

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  • La cultura de la atención integral

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  • Fortalecer nuestras práctica: Las diez fortalezas esenciales de los defensores de víctimas de violencia sexual en agencias de auxilio de servicio dual/múltiple
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Partners in Healing: Supporting Friends & Family

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Anti-Racism is Fundamental to Sexual Assault Services

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Advocating for Victims of Stalking

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Advocacy One Step Further

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Getting to Know the Whole Survivor: Orientation Strategies

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • El Anti-Racismo es Fundamental para los Servicios Ante la Agresión Sexual
  • Advocating for All Communities

Advocacy programs have a responsibility to prioritize sexual violence services for the most marginalized and oppressed survivors in rural communities. Learning about marginalized communities should not be seen as “extra” or an “add-on,” but instead essential to the mission of the program. The resources below will help your program learn more about providing services to specific marginalized communities present in your rural community. All of the resources here are cross-listed into other topics present in the toolkit.

  • Available Resources

Publication

  • Why Look At Census Data?

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  • Trauma Informed Principles through a Culturally Specific Lens, National Latin@ Network

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  • Maturing Your Services: Advocating for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Later Life, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Transgender Sexual Violence Survivors: A Self-Help Guide to Healing and Understanding, Forge

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  • Fuerza Unida: An Approach for Engaging Communities, National Latin@ Network

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  • Making Sexual and Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Individuals with Limited English Proficiency: A Planning Tool for Advocacy Organizations, National Latin@ Network

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  • Culturally Relevant Services for Tribal Communities and Communities of Color

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  • Building Meaningful Partnerships: Supporting Native Survivors in Rural Communities

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  • Cultivating Inclusive Practices: Working with Rural Immigrant and Refugee Communities

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  • Eight Step Advocacy Plan for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Survivors of Sexual Assault

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  • El Cultivo de las Prácticas Inclusivas: Trabajar con Inmigrantes Rurales y Comunidades de Refugiados
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Nothing About Us Without Us: Centering the Movement Around Self-Advocates, End Abuse of People with Disabilities

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • One Size Does Not Fit All: Serving Culturally Diverse Survivors with Disabilities, End Abuse of People with Disabilities

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Responding to Survivors with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Overview for Sexual Assault Advocates, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Anti-Racism is Fundamental to Sexual Assault Services

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Rural Resilience: Addressing Sexual Abuse in Later Life

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Supporting Multilingual and Bicultural Rural Advocates Webinar

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • From the Ground Up: Supporting Rural Multilingual Advocates

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • El Anti-Racismo es Fundamental para los Servicios Ante la Agresión Sexual
  • Assessment & Evaluation

Evaluation is the backbone of strong sexual assault advocacy. Evaluation proves out success to employees, community leaders, and funders. It lets us measure what we are doing right and figure out how to do more of it. Most importantly, evaluation gives survivors and community members a voice in our empowerment-based agencies. We cannot know if services are working for survivors unless we ask. The resources below will help your rural program meaningfully assess where you are currently and where you want to go.

  • Available Resources

Assessment & Evaluation

  • Visualiza tu programa: Cómo planificar para el crecimiento de tu organización

Publication

  • Fortalecer nuestras práctica: Las diez fortalezas esenciales de los defensores de víctimas de violencia sexual en agencias de auxilio de servicio dual/múltiple

Assessment & Evaluation

  • Picturing Your Program: Planning for Organizational Growth

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Assessment & Evaluation

  • Listening to Our Communities: Assessment Toolkit

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  • Program Evaluation: Knowing is Half the Battle
  • Children & Youth

Youth who experience sexual violence deserve our advocacy services and support. Children and teens are resilient, creative, and capable of healing. The resources below will help you strengthen your advocacy skills when working with minors and help your program create strong advocacy services with children and youth in mind.

  • Available Resources

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  • How do I Talk about the Violence I Experienced?, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • Mandatory Reporting of Non-Accidental Injuries: A State-by-State Guide, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook, Generation Five

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  • Teen Suport Group Guide, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • Serving Teen Survivors: A Manual for Advocates, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Considering Family Reconnection and Reunification after Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Road Map for Advocates and Service Providers, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • The Advocate’s Guide: Working with Parents of Children Who Have Been Sexually Assaulted, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Linking the Roads: Working with Youth Who Experience Homelessness & Sexual Violence, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • No Safe Place: Sexual Violence in the Juvenile Justice System, Just Detention International

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  • Tip Sheet on Teen Survivors and Parents/Guardians

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  • College-Aged but On the Streets: Young Adults Who Experience Homelessness and Sexual Violence

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  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Surviving & Thriving: Supporting Teens After Sexual Abuse
  • Organizational Highlights

Organizational Highlight

  • Scarleteen: Sex Ed for the Real World

Organizational Highlight

  • Teen Vogue

Organizational Highlight

  • Teen Talk
  • Confidentiality

Confidentiality builds trust and provides the foundation for our relationship with survivors and our community. In rural communities confidentiality can be difficult to navigate, which makes it all the more important to survivors of sexual violence. The resources below will provide your program with the tools to create truly confidential sexual violence services.

  • Available Resources

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  • Jurisdiction-Specific Guides: Privacy Laws Impacting Survivors, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • Tips: Protecting Survivor Privacy in Rural Areas, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • A Privacy Toolkit for Coordinated Community Response Teams, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • Privacy Chart Mandatory Reporting Tool, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • FAQ about U.S Federal Laws & Confidentiality for Survivors, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Listening to Survivors- Essential Steps for the Intake Process
  • Organizational Highlight

Organizational Highlight

  • Confidentiality Institute
  • Healing

Sexual violence deeply affects so many areas of our lives: health, spirituality, emotions, sexuality, and relationships. These are areas of hurt and areas where we can focus our healing services. Advocacy is about helping survivors find their path to healing from trauma and that goal can only be achieved by supporting the whole person. The resources below will help your program envision healing services for survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • CAPACITAR: Healing Trauma, Empowering Wellness, A Multicultural Popular Education Approach to Transforming Trauma, Capacitar International

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  • Holistic Healing After Sexual Violence, The Breathe Network

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  • Trans Sexual Violence Survivors: A Self-Help Guide to Healing and Understanding, Forge

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  • Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy

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  • How Does Cultural Appropriation Affect Rural Sexual Assault Services?

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  • Holistic Healing Services for Survivors

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  • Servicios de sanación holí­stica para los sobrevivientes
  • Helplines

Our rural helpline services allow sexual violence survivors, their family and friends, and professionals 24-hour access to connection, information, and supportive services. Helpline services, more than any other service, give sexual violence survivors unencumbered access to trauma informed support in rural communities. The resources below will help your programs structure helpline services for survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • Digital Services Toolkit, Safety Net

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  • Support, Connection, Healing: Rural Helplines Today

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  • Facilitation Guide: Conversations on Rural Helpline Services

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  • Tips for Active Listening

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  • Crisis and Support Line Tip Sheet

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  • Consejos Rápidos para Quienes Trabajan en la Línea Directa de Crisis y Apoyo
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Rural Helplines: Strengthening Services for Sexual Violence Survivors
  • Housing Advocacy

Home is supposed to mean safety, security, and comfort. But for many survivors of sexual violence, home can be a triggering space fraught with memories of violence and trauma. The resources below will help your rural program use housing advocacy to create spaces of healing and comfort for survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • Kit de herramientas sobre el mejoramiento de los servicios para sobrevivientxs de violencia sexual en viviendas de transición

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  • Iniciativa de acceso a viviendas de transición para lxs sobrevivientxs de la violencia sexual

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  • En edad universitaria, durmiendo en las calles: adultos jóvenes sin hogar que han sufrido violencia sexual

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  • Bases fuertes para la sanación: refugios y la violencia sexual

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  • 전환주거에 있는 성폭력 생존자의 주거 및 지원 서비스 니즈 충족

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  • Meeting Sexual Violence Survivor Needs in Transitional Housing

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  • Housing, Homelessness, and Sexual Violence Annotated Bibliography

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  • Toolkit on Enhancing Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Transitional Housing

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  • Opening the Door: An Advocate’s Guide to Housing and Sexual Violence, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • College-Aged but On the Streets: Young Adults Who Experience Homelessness and Sexual Violence

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  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de transición para las personas adultas sobrevivientes de abuso sexual infantil

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Orientación a la Iniciativa de Acceso a la Vivienda de Transición de lxs sobrevivientxs de la Violencia Sexual

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Sanación holí­stica para lxs sobrevivientxs de la violencia sexual en viviendas de transición

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Trabajando con lxs sobrevivientxs de la trata de personas en las viviendas de transición

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • 전환주거에 있는 아동 학대의 성인 생존자의 필요 충족하기

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Meeting The Needs of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Transitional Housing

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Orientation to Sexual Violence Survivors’ Transitional Housing Access Initiative

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Holistic Healing for Sexual Violence Survivors in Transitional Housing

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Serving Survivors of Sexual Violence in Transitional Housing

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Connecting Homeless Survivors of Sexual Assault to HUD’s Continuum of Care and Emergency Solutions Grant Program

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Meeting the Needs of Sexual Violence Survivors in Shelter
  • Medical Advocacy

Sexual violence has profound and long-term impacts on the physical health of survivors. Comprehensive medical advocacy extends beyond the immediate medical needs of survivors after sexual violence and into long-term health needs. The resources below will help your program envision medical advocacy that can meet all of the healthcare needs of survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • SANE 365, International Association of Forensic Nurses

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  • SANE Program Development and Operation Guide, International Association of Forensic Nurses

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  • SANE Program Succession Planning Worksheet, International Association of Forensic Nurses

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  • Healing the Body: Exploring Comprehensive Medical Advocacy
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Engaging Your Rural Healthcare Provider
  • Organizational Highlight

Organizational Highlight

  • Tribal Forensic Healthcare
  • Organizational Management

Dual/multi-service advocacy programs are in a unique position to provide excellent rural sexual assault resources when offered effective strategies in organizational structure, staff training, and community partnerships that successfully balance programmatic needs and meet the unique needs of sexual violence survivors. The resources below will help you create an organizational structure and culture to best serve survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • Developing Program Policies on Staff Use of Personal and Remote Devices: Ten Tips, Victim Rights Law Center

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  • An Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Reviewing and Developing Policy, Springtide Resources

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  • Organizational Trauma and Healing, a book by Paula Varga and Sara Harlow

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  • Managing to Change the World, a book by The Management Center

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  • Making Sexual and Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Individuals with Limited English Proficiency: A Planning Tool for Advocacy Organizations, National Latin@ Network

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  • ReShape Newsletter: Supervision Tools (July 2019)

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  • SADI Lessons

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  • It Matters! How Defining Sexual Violence Defines Advocacy Programs

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  • Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy

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  • Listening to Survivors- Essential Steps for the Intake Process

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  • Board of Directors Toolkit for Nonprofit Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Organizations

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  • Board Diversity: Resources on Diversifying Your Board of Directors

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  • Community Donations for Sexual Violence Survivors

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  • Core Services and Characteristics of Rape Crisis Centers

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  • Lecciones para los programas locales

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  • Adiós al menú: cómo ampliar el alcance de la intercesoría

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  • La supervisión a larga distancia

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  • La cultura de la atención integral

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  • Abriendo Nuestras Puertas: Desarrollo de Servicios Sólidos para la Asistencia a Víctimas de Agresión Sexual en Agencias de Servicios de Auxilio y Servicio Duales/Múltiples

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  • Donativos de la Comunidad para Los Sobrevivientes de Violencia Sexual

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  • Servicios principales y características de los centros de atención de crisis por violación
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Rural Sustainability Part 1: Orientation & Training

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Change Starts Within- Strengthening Services Through Supervision

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Anti-Racism is Fundamental to Sexual Assault Services

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Serving the Whole Community

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Rural SADI Lessons: Part 1

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Rural SADI Lessons: Part 2

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Opening the Door: Services for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Board Development 101: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities of Your Board of Directors

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Remote Supervision in Dual/Multi-Service Advocacy Agencies

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Comprehensive Sexual Assault Services within a Rural Context

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Empowering Your Board to Lead: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities of Your Board of Directors (Series)

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • El Anti-Racismo es Fundamental para los Servicios Ante la Agresión Sexual
  • Outreach

The purpose of outreach is to inform our community of the many services we have available to support the long and short term needs of sexual violence survivors and their support systems. Outreach to our rural communities is how we let survivors know that our services exist and welcome them to join us to explore their healing. The resources below will help you create a strong outreach plan for your rural community.

  • Available Resources

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  • Let’s Talk About It Sample Letter to the Editor, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Before You Start Checklist, Safe Havens

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  • The First Visit Checklist, Safe Havens

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  • Fuerza Unida: An Approach for Engaging Communities, National Latin@ Network

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  • Building Meaningful Partnerships: Supporting Native Survivors in Rural Communities

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  • Rural Outreach

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  • Rural Communications Resources

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  • Cultivating Inclusive Practices: Working with Rural Immigrant and Refugee Communities

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  • Eight Step Advocacy Plan for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Survivors of Sexual Assault

Publication

  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Uniquely Rural: Creating Effective Campaigns about Sexual Assault, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Serving the Whole Community

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Surviving & Thriving: Supporting Teens After Sexual Abuse

Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Expanding Community Involvement in Rural Communities
  • PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) calls on corrections officials to take concrete steps to detect, prevent, and respond to sexual abuse and harassment inside detention facilities. While the PREA standards don’t apply to advocacy programs, only corrections agencies, advocacy programs have a responsibility to serve the entire community, jails and prisons included. The resources below will help your program learn more about PREA and how to provide advocacy to survivors who are incarcerated.

  • Available resources

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  • Justice for Victims Behind Bars: Improving the Response to Cases of Sexual Abuse in Confinement, Aequitas

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  • Hope Behind Bars: An Advocate’s Guide to Helping Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention, Just Detention International

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  • Targets for Abuse: Transgender Inmates and Prisoner Rape, Just Detention International

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  • No Safe Place: Sexual Violence in the Juvenile Justice System, Just Detention International

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  • Mapping It Out: A Tool to Get Started on Providing Victim Services for Incarcerated Survivors
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • It Can Happen Anywhere: Responding to Sexual Abuse in Small, Rural Jails, Just Detention International

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Mapping It Out: Providing Victim Services for Incarcerated Survivors
  • Rural

Addressing sexual violence in rural communities comes with its own specific set of strengths and challenges which are distinctly different than urban communities. The resources below are some of our favorite resources that specifically address the realities of working in rural communities.

  • Available Resources

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  • Unspoken Crimes: Sexual Assault in Rural America, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Rural Resources Collection, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Organizational Highlight

Organizational Highlight

  • Rural Health Information Hub

Organizational Highlight

  • United States Census Bureau

Organizational Highlight

  • The Daily Yonder

Organizational Highlight

  • Support Groups

Support groups offer a powerful and unique form of healing for survivors of sexual violence. Hearing other survivors speak and receiving peer level support provides a different form of healing than therapy or advocacy can provide. The resources below will help your program create sexual assault specific support groups for rural survivors in your area.

  • Available Resources

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  • The Power of Social Connection: Developing and Coordinating Sustainable Support Group Programs for Survivors of Sexual Violence, North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault

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  • Peer Support Guide, Male Survivor

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  • How to Start and Facilitate a Support Group for Victims of Stalking, Stalking Resource Center

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  • Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use, Alaska Network to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

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  • Circle of Hope, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • Latin@ Support Group Guide, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • Parent Support Group Guide, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • IPSV Support Group Guide: A Guide to Psychoeducational Support Groups for Survivors of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • Teen Suport Group Guide, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Part of the Solution: Gender-Integrated Sexual Assault Support Groups, Forge

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Creating and Maintaining a Support Group in a Rural Community
  • Supporting Staff

The strength of advocates comes from being emotionally healthy and well-supported. When individual advocates and their organizations are healthy, we can bring our best self to the work every day. As we build our sexual assault services, it is imperative to have a plan that is both proactive and responsive to vicarious trauma experienced by those doing direct service. Healthy leadership also recognizes the unique isolation felt by multilingual advocates and staff of color working in rural areas. The resources below will help your programs create policies and practices to support staff.

  • Available Resources

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  • Trauma Stewardship: An Everday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, a book by the Trauma Stewardship Institute

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  • An Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Reviewing and Developing Policy, Springtide Resources

Publication

  • ReShape Newsletter: Supervision Tools (July 2019)

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Publication

  • Supporting Multilingual and Bicultural Rural Advocates

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  • Apoyando a Los Defensores Rurales Multilingües y Biculturales
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Change Starts Within: Strengthening Services through Supervision

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Supporting Multilingual and Bicultural Rural Advocates Webinar

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • From the Ground Up: Supporting Rural Multilingual Advocates

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Empowering Ourselves: Incorporating Self-Care into Our Everyday Interactions

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • We Are the Victims We Serve: Supporting Advocates Who are Survivors
  • Trauma-Informed Services

Trauma informed services are services created to support the healing and growth of survivors while avoiding re-traumatization. Trauma informed services provide a framework for understanding the impact of trauma on survivors, communities, and those that serve them and ensures that our services are responsive to the needs of sexual violence survivors. The resources below will help your program understand what trauma informed services look like so you can re-envision services for survivors of sexual violence.

  • Available Resources

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  • Trauma-Informed Care

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  • Trauma Informed Principles through a Culturally Specific Lens, National Latin@ Network

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  • Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care (CCTIC): A Self-Assessment and Planning Protocol, by Roger D. Fallot & Marina Harlow

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  • Trauma Stewardship: An Everday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, a book by the Trauma Stewardship Institute

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  • Creating Trauma-Informed Services: A Guide for Sexual Assault Programs and Their System Partners, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

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  • Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy

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  • Listening to Survivors- Essential Steps for the Intake Process

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  • A Welcoming Introduction to Services

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  • Building Comprehensive Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence

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  • La cultura de la atención integral

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  • Servicios integrales para los sobrevivientes de violencia sexual
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Change Starts Within- Strengthening Services Through Supervision

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Partners in Healing: Supporting Friends & Family

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • More than a Buzzword: Trauma Informed Services in a Rural Community

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Meeting the Needs of Sexual Violence Survivors in Shelter

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Getting to Know the Whole Survivor: Orientation Strategies
  • Volunteer Programs

Volunteers are an important part of the work we do with survivors. With the help of volunteers we are able to provide services to our entire community, prevent burnout and reduce vicarious trauma, and increase our fundraising efforts. A sustainable and strong sexual violence advocacy program is difficult to maintain without a thriving volunteer program. The resources below will help your program create your own volunteer program in your rural community.

  • Available Resources

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  • Volunteers = Positively Awesome!, National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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  • Rural Volunteer Program Guide

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  • Guía para el Programa de Voluntarios
  • Recorded Calls & Webinars

Recorded Calls & Webinars

  • Building a Sustainable Rural Volunteer Program

Online Training for Advocacy Programs’ Boards

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View the Course

Looking for some basic board training? You’re not alone! RSP and the National Network to End Domestic Violence created an online board orientation course that provides introductory, core training tools for coalitions and local programs to use with board members, executive directors, and agency staff about non-profit governance.

Board members can take this training at their own pace, on their own time. The course is broken down into stand-alone sections so you can use just the pieces you need to supplement a larger coalition board orientation. Sections can be viewed in any order. If you want to talk with us about how other advocacy programs have used this training as part of a larger board orientation, reach out to an RSP team member.

Recorded Webinars

Below you can find recordings of recent webinars.

May 03, 2022

  • Satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de transición para las personas adultas sobrevivientes de abuso sexual infantil

Descripción: Las personas sobrevivientes de abuso sexual infantil pueden vivir en silencio y con miedo, sin…

May 03, 2022

  • 전환주거에 있는 아동 학대의 성인 생존자의 필요 충족하기

설명 아동 성적 학대 생존자들은 누구에게 그 사실을 털어놓거나 도움을 요청해야 할지 모른 채 침묵과…

May 03, 2022

  • Meeting The Needs of Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Transitional Housing

Description: Survivors of child sexual abuse may live in silence and fear, uncertain how to…

Aug 18, 2021

  • Rural Sustainability Part 1: Orientation & Training

This webinar was recorded on August 12th, 2021. We all know what it feels like…

Jul 08, 2021

This webinar was recorded on July 7th, 2021 for our Rural Training & Technical Assistance…

Jun 21, 2021

  • Change Starts Within- Strengthening Services Through Supervision

This recording is a conversation between two state/national Program Directors as they talk about trauma-informed…

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