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SART Foundations: Sexual Violence Happens Here
Growing up, my friends and I didn’t know a whole lot about sexual and domestic violence. Even though violence happened, no one really talked about…
Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2017: Featuring Kasey Baker from Save Avenues
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is here again! This year MNCASA developed a Minnesota-specificSAAM toolkit. Here you will find…
Weigh In Wednesday: Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the SART
It’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)! This is the month where a lot of folks engage in outreach and education events. Most of these are…
Focusing on What Matters: Prioritizing Sexual Violence over Substance Use
As sexual assault response teams (SARTs) and other multi-disciplinary teams work through best practices and approaches to sexual assault cases, teams begin to see patterns…
Resource Spotlight: AEquitas
AEquitas’ mission is, “mission is to improve the quality of justice in sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and human trafficking cases by developing, evaluating, and…
SART Foundations: Addressing Alcohol and Victim Blame
One of the major challenges I hear from teams everywhere, especially if there is a campus environment, is the issue of how alcohol affects the…
Weigh In Wednesday: Alcohol and the SART
Maybe it’s the fact that Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up. Maybe it’s the steadily warming weather of Minnesota that makes me dream of sitting…
Resource Spotlight: SVJI Evaluation Tool
We talked about assessing the state of the state in the last post. I wanted to provide you all a resource to help you and…
SART Foundations: Who Should Be On My Team?
Building your SART can be a mixture of planning, luck, and unexpected twists. Sometimes, it’s a straightforward process and all of the people who want…