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Advocate’s Guide to Talking to Parents/Guardians About Healthy Relationships and Sexual Violence Prevention for Children and Youth
Learning healthy relationship skills is a vital part of sexual violence prevention and sex education, all of which are most impactful when taught together. Parents/guardians…
Healthy Relationships Activity Book
Stopping sexual violence and other forms of harm can feel like a complicated and overwhelming task. Education is an important form of sexual violence prevention.
What Can We Talk About? Common Rules & Regulations
It is important for all members of a sexual assault response team (SART) to understand one another’s different professional and ethical obligations before the team…
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Healthy Relationships and Prevention
Sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and other forms of sexual violence do not happen in isolation. Harmful attitudes, beliefs, and practices can create an environment in…
Sex Trafficking Prevention Strategies
Sex trafficking is a type of commercial sexual exploitation where a third person, often referred to as a trafficker, arranges or profits from the exploitation.
Mission Vision Goal Setting Builders
To help get your team started, you can download this worksheet. If your team already has a mission, it is worth revisiting it to ensure that…
Developing an Effective Response to Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Part Three: Supporting the Community-Driven Response
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Developing an Effective Response to Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Part Two: Leveraging Statewide Efforts to Enhance the Local Response
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Developing an Effective Response to Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Part One: Changing the Paradigm
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Funding Successful SARTs: A Ten-Factor Framework for STOP Administrators
One of the ways STOP administrators can support sexual violence response work is through funding and supporting systems change sexual assault response teams (SARTs). This…
Meaningfully Addressing Sexual Violence with S*T*O*P
The 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act included a statutory requirement that 20% of the STOP funding awarded to each state and territory…
Understanding What the “Rape Kit Backlog” Really Means, Part 3: Approaches and Protocols
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Understanding Unsubmitted Kit Problems, Part 2: Approaches and Protocols
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Understanding what the “Rape Kit Backlog” Really Means Part 1: Language and Definitions
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (SVJI@MNCASA) is a national resource for expertise in the criminal justice response to…
Research Finds Most Sexual Assault Reports to be True: Uncovering myths and practices, influencing change
The Problem “False report” is a category or designation that is often misused by law enforcement on sexual assault cases. The overuse of this designation…