This 26-session curriculum, created by Paul Kivel and Allan Creighton, address:

• gender norms,
• power and control,
• homophobia,
• racism,
• sexism, and
• other factors that contribute to gender-based violence.

Young men are given tools to create healthy relationships through group discussions, activities, and videos.

The website provides facilitators with tips on how to incorporate into school…

Bystander intervention is an essential component in preventing sexual violence. It may be helpful to have conversations with groups in your community about effective intervention, take time to address the fears and concerns that they may have, and also highlight the positive effects bystander intervention has on the community.

1. What are some reasons that we don't intervene when we see someone harassing or disrespecting another person?
   • Have you ever…

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Make a banner for the front page:

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2. Make sure that the center of interest is to the right of the grey overlay.

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Diversity Training

1. Cultural Competency

• Author: Hewitt, Robert.

DonYeta Villavaso-Madden is the Principal Consultant at Lucy Yee Management Consulting. Lucy Yee is a leaning business partner that can facilitate your organizational culture redesign and improve employee engagement and retention.

Sexual assault affects every survivor differently, and each person's response may be impacted by the nature of the assault, your individual and family history, or other life circumstances. There is no right way to react after a sexual assault, and you know best what choices are right for you. As you decide want you want to do next, remember that what happened to you is not your fault. The perpetrator alone is responsible for their actions.

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Advocates for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault complete client screenings and intakes, provide phone-based and face/face advocacy as needed, support shelter residents, walk-in clients and remote/phone-based clients or hotline calls with referrals and information for appropriate resources including developing safety plans if appropriate. This position also performs general administrative and recordkeeping duties. Cleaning shelter common areas and living spaces and other tasks…

Advocate Core has been postponed

• The October Advocate Core will not be held.

• Look for this training in January 2021

With increased media attention, issues of family violence have been steadily moving out of the shadows and into the arenas of research, prevention, intervention, and public awareness. However, sibling abuse largely unrecognized and unaddressed remains behind the closed doors of "family privacy." Often excused by parents as "kids will be kids" behavior, the symptoms of this form of abuse go undetected and its devastating effects on the victim are ignored. Sibling Abuse, Second Edition…

Zoë Flowers is author, content creator and writer with the Huffington Post. Her poetry and essays can be found in Stand Our Ground; Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Assault and the new anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse. Her articles and interviews can be found on The Grio, …

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Talking Points

A collection of talking points to use in your presentations, one-on-one conversations, and media campaigns. PDF

Activities & Community Engagement

Try incorporating fun activities to help promote awareness about the issue of sexual violence and involve your community in making a difference! Here are a few to get you started:

The Grants Specialist (Commerce Specialist 1) provides technical assistance to staff and grantee’s on various program related issues. This position contributes to the unit’s technology and granting infrastructure to support the mission of the program and division by maximizing the availability of information and ease of operation.

This position is within the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy (OCVA), who serves as a voice within government for the needs of crime victims in Washington…

The criminal legal system is designed to punish the wrongdoer. This is a process that involves multiple steps that can take up to a year or more to complete.

Reporting

A police report is made or child/adult protective services report is made. Reports to police are reviewed by detectives. Sometimes they will want more information, other times they will conclude there is enough information. On both occasions they may want to interview the victim.…

Logan Micheel, MA, worked as the Child Advocacy Specialist at the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP). In that role, she provided technical assistance, training, research and resources to support sexual assault advocates and community programs in their work with children, teens, and nonoffending caregivers. Her projects have included co-writing WCSAP’s guides for facilitating teen and nonoffending caregiver support groups. She worked as a legal advocate at a community…

Amy McIntyre (pronouns: she/her) currently works with the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center (FJC) in Pierce County as the Bilingual Victim Services Supervisor. She is a proud mom and a lover of coffee, chocolate, poetry, and music! Amy's work history includes time with an immigration firm, time at WCSAP as the Advocacy Specialist on the Crossing Borders & Enlace Projects, and prior to working with WCSAP, she was a community advocate in Forks, WA with the program now called Mariposa…

1. Do not reveal any information to the person serving the subpoena.
2. Look up your agency’s policy and follow it!
   1. If the policy does not answer your question, ask your supervisor.
3. Make sure that management (for example: Executive Director, supervisor) is aware of subpoena immediately.
4. Read the subpoena:
   • To whom is it directed? The Program? An advocate?
   • Who is asking for the information?
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The intent of these presentations is to provide a starting place or a template for your program when responding to requests, typically from schools, for basic information or awareness raising presentations.  We have included the key points and best practice approaches to discussing the topic and expect you may customize some aspects of the slides to meet your community’s needs, experiences, and resources. The slides contain detailed notes and considerations for the trainer.

This position provides mobile outreach, advocacy, and prevention services throughout Whatcom County, with a focus on rural communities and youth. The Mobile Rural Service Coordinator will work to maintain a strong DVSAS presence in Whatcom County’s rural areas by building and maintaining relationships with community leaders and groups, and by coordinating the delivery of outreach presentations and activities at events throughout the county. They will also work directly with youth in schools…

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