Tools & Resources
Featured Tools & Resources
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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Authentic Community Engagement in Safe Harbor
The meaningful engagement and collaboration within community strengthens a multidisciplinary response to sexual exploitation and trafficking. A blend of constructive teaming strategies, stakeholder buy-in, and…
Busting the Myths Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Fact Sheet
Sexual exploitation and sex trafficking receive a lot of media attention, which may leave you wondering how these issues impact your community. Increased awareness of…
Helpful Prevention Information and Tools
Sexual violence prevention can seem very complicated and feel overwhelming, but MNCASA is here to help make things a little bit easier. You can learn…
Glossary of Sexual Violence Terms
This glossary contains common terms, definitions, and acronyms related to sexual violence and system response, such as the criminal legal system or in healthcare.
Sexual Assault Evidentiary Exam Payment
In Minnesota, victims of sexual assault who have an evidentiary exam done for the purpose of gathering evidence of sexual assault need not pay for…
Payment for Sexual Assault Exams When the Assault Occurs in One State but the Exam Occurs in a Different State
This fact sheet explains who pays for a sexual assault exam when the victim is assaulted while visiting one state but undergoes a sexual assault…
Confidential Communications with Health Insurance Carriers: Guide for Advocates and Providers
If someone is insured as a dependent on another’s health insurance policy—for example a partner or parent’s—health insurance carriers may send the policyholder information about…
Minor Consent for Medical and Mental Health Treatment
This fact sheet addresses two main issues: When may a sexual assault advocate or medical professional provide services to a minor without consent from the…
Mandated Reporting of Maltreatment of Vulnerable Adults: What is Required?
In Minnesota, sexual assault advocates and domestic abuse advocates are NOT mandated reporters of maltreatment of vulnerable adults. See Minn. Stat. §626.557 and other statutes…
Mandated Reporting of Sexual or Physical Abuse or Neglect of a Child
In Minnesota, sexual assault advocates are mandated to report the abuse or neglect of a child by “certain persons” in caregiving roles to the child.
Serving Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
Despite the fact that people who identify as transgender or non-binary experience violence and harassment in every aspect of life at astoundingly high rates (NCTE, 2016),…