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The NSVRC has released the Prevention Assessment Year 2 Report: Innovations in Prevention. This report was prepared for the NSVRC by Stephanie M. Townsend, PhD. Additionally PreventConnect provided additional support to augment the assessment and include an examination of how innovations diffuse.
This second phase of the NSVRC’s Prevention Assessment project focused on interviews with innovative prevention programs and a diffusion survey to document how innovations have spread throughout the sexual violence prevention field. The emphasis of this assessment was on how programs are thinking about primary prevention and the processes that allowed innovation to develop. This report contains findings from that assessment.
Podcasts conducted by PreventConnect with some of the programs interviewed for the report can be found in the following link:http://www.preventconnect.org/mail/newsletter/NSVRCNewsletter2012.html
The Year 1 report of the Prevention Assessment Project, released in 2011, can be found here.
If you have question about this report or the prevention assessment project, please contact jgrove@nsvrc.org.
*Note: reposted from NSVRC.org
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The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) has published it’s survey on sexual violence and intimate partner violence. The continuing incidents yearly, monthly, daily, and every minute may shock you. They found that on average:
24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States.
Annually that equals more than 12 million women and men.
More than 1 million women are raped in a year and over 6 million women and men are victims of stalking in a year.
These findings emphasize that sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence are important and widespread public health problems in the United States. This would be considered an epidemic if a disease.
NISVS is an on¬going, nationally representative survey that assesses experiences of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence among adult women and men in the United States. It measures lifetime victimization for these types of violence as well as victimization in the 12 months prior to the survey. The survey goes beyond counting acts of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence by assessing the range of violence experienced by victims and the impact of that victimization. The report also includes the first ever simultaneous national and state-level prevalence estimates of these forms of violence for all states.
Findings from the 2010 Summary Report will be available online
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/index.html
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The Virginia Sexual and domestic Violence Action Alliance, with its member Sexual and Domestic Violence Advocacy Agencies, establishes a new fund to support statewide and local efforts to prevent sexual and domestic violence.
The “Peace Begins at Home” Special Interest License Plate is the first initiative of the Building Healthy Futures Fund. To order a special interest license plate: go to: h…ttp://vsdvalliance.org/secAction/bhff.html to download your license plate application. (make sure when filling out application to check the box for special interest and write Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for organization name.) Write check made out to “Action Alliance” for $25(non-personalized) or $35 for personalized license plate.
Here is a re-post from the Roanoke Times
ROANOKE SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER NOW ON ITS OWN FOOTING
Sarah Bruyn Jones, Roanoke Times
October 29, 2011
The Roanoke area’s sexual assault crisis center is now an independent nonprofit, as it seeks to maintain its long-standing presence in the community.
The Sexual Assault Response & Awareness program, or SARA, operated out of Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare until July 1, when it separated from the agency. On Friday the organization held an open house and silent auction at its new offices at 3034 Brambleton Ave. S.W. in Roanoke.
The process toward separation began in the fall of 2009, when Blue Ridge said it could no longer subsidize the administrative costs for running SARA.
Blue Ridge sought to find another administrative home for the group, but by this year, it had become clear that SARA would have to stand on its own, said Teresa Berry, who has worked for the program for a quarter-century and is now the executive director of the newly formed nonprofit.
The new organization incorporated with the state in March as Sexual Assault Response & Awareness Inc.
By May, SARA had successfully filed with the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofit status.
SARA, which provides free support services to sexual assault victims including counseling and accompaniment to court hearings, continues to operate with grants from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Berry said. SARA gets about $165,000 annually from three DCJS grants, she said.
But that doesn’t cover general fund expenses, including legal fees and other startup costs, she said. To cover those expenses, Berry has put in about $8,000 of her own money and received another $6,000 from donors.
Friday’s open house was intended, in part, to kick off some needed fundraising. Berry said she would like to add three more people to her staff, which currently includes herself and one other person.
SARA serves about 350 victims a year and has recently seen an increase in need, particularly among young adults and teenagers, she said.
“We need to be doing more education,” she said.
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Sexual assault victims who are deaf face higher rates of assault as well as have unique issues not encountered by the hearing.
Arva Priola, Outreach Coordinator at the disAbility Resource Center in Fredericksburg reports that deaf women have a 10% higher rate of assault than hearing women. And according to a recent study funded by the National Institute of Justice. Researcher Jennifer Obinna and colleagues at the Minneapolis Council on Crime and Justice found that, “Deaf people face specific barriers. It’s important to distinguish their experiences as sexual assault victims from other sexual assault victims.”
Obinna’s research found that when deaf people report sexual assault, they encounter stereotypes about being a sexual assault victim and being deaf. It is well documented that survivors of sexually violent crimes report feelings of guilt and embarrassment because of the social stigma frequently attached to rape. The small and close-knit deaf community can contribute to hesitancy in reporting and the need to involve more people for interpretation and communication.
The closeness of the deaf community can compromise a victim’s anonymity and erode privacy. In addition, as Obinna’s research found, many deaf victims of sexual assault perceive a lack of support within the deaf community, particularly if the perpetrator is also deaf. Consequently, deaf victims can experience a profound sense of isolation.
An additional barrier specific to the deaf community to reporting can be a lack of awareness about deafness and deaf culture among hearing people and lack of resources within sexual assault centers. This lack of recognizing deaf culture as a defined entity rather than a deficit contributes to centers and the community not focusing on developing appropriate programs and adequate response to victims of crime. “Part of being in the deaf community is deaf culture,” Priola says. “We can’t always make assumptions about how a particular culture experiences violence. Even though the experience and many of the reactions are similar, there are cultural differences that service providers and law enforcement must pay attention to. Making decisions about who to tell—or even whether to tell—is all filtered through a cultural lens.”
Many deaf victims may be reluctant to reach out to agencies that serve sexual assault victims because most of the providers are hearing and do not have systems for effectively communicating with deaf people. For example, deaf sexual assault victims cannot count on service agencies having access to a TTY (teletypewriter), much less a staff member who knows how to operate it. Even if a social service or law enforcement agency has an interpreter, deaf victims, like hearing victims, may be reluctant to divulge intimate details to yet another stranger. Some deaf victims of sexual assault also believe they cannot rely on interpreters to accurately represent their words and experiences. Service agencies that do not have qualified interpreters on site often use the victim’s family or friends to assist in interviews, which can further inhibit a sexual assault victim’s candor.
Today there are many more ways for the deaf community to communicate with the hearing community such as assistive listening devices, computer assisted real time transcription, interpreters, Virginia Relay, Voice Carry Over, Hearing Carry Over, IP Relay through your computer, chat rooms, video relay and texting. For more information on how to communicate serve the Deaf Community, contact your local disAbility Resource Center.
If you know someone who has been sexually assaulted or abused, please contact the Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault 540-371-1666
Obinna, J., S. Krueger, C. Osterbaan, J.M. Sadusky, and W. DeVore, Understanding the Needs of the Victims of Sexual Assault in the Deaf Community, final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice, February 2006. www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/212867.pdf
Priola, A., Undertanding Communication for People with Hearing Loss. The Disability Resource Center. 2011.
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Do you know what constitutes Domestic Violence? Domestic or Interpersonal Violence is willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. With the statistics showing that 1 in 4 women may become victims of interpersonal violence, it is considered an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior that is a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death. The consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and truly last a lifetime. The majority of domestic violence reports are women by partners known to them.
Family members and loved ones who witness abuse are considered secondary victims and can also have emotional and psychological trauma. The strongest risk factor for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next is children who witness violence between one’s parents or caretakers. In particular, boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults. Statistics from National Coalition Against Domestic Violence show that 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.
There is a high correlation between domestic violence and homicide of females. Almost one-third of female homicide victims that are reported in police records are killed by an intimate partner. As reported by the NCADV, in 70-80% of intimate partner homicides, a staggering statistic, no matter which partner was killed, the woman was physically abused before the murder. Also staggering is the realization that less than one-fifth of victims reporting an injury from intimate partner violence sought medical treatment following abuse. It is suspected that intimate partner violence results in more than 18.5 million mental health care visits each year.
October 27th
Remember My Name, 7PM, Monument Heights Church (corner of Monument and Libbie).
Remember My Name honors victims of domestic violence from our community and provides family members with the opportunity to speak on their behalf.
For information about submitting a name to the memorial or for general information about Remember My Name, please contact Casey Emery at cemery@ywcarichmond.org
| Become Aware of what Domestic Violence can do to you and how P.O.W.E.R.S. INC. can “restore your life” on:Sunday, October 16,2011,
Flushing Meadows Corona Park at Ederle Terrace, Queens, NY Registration Begins @ 9am – Events end @ 12pm |
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