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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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…
Summary of A Ten-Factor Framework for Sexual Assault Response Team Effectiveness
Systems change sexual assault response teams (SARTs) are community-based multidisciplinary teams that work to create long-term improvements to the local response to sexual violence. SARTs…
Hear Us. See Us. Believe Us. Respect Us.: Latina Farmworker Experiences of Sexual Violence in Rural Washington
SVJI staff partnered with community-based advocacy organizations in two states to implement a community-led research project to explore the experiences of adult victim/survivors of sexual…
Why should SARTs evaluate their response to sexual violence?
This video explains the cycle of system change and emphasizes the importance of SARTs evaluating their response.
Reviewing Case Files and Evaluating your SARTs Findings
In this webinar participants will learn about the specifics of the actual review, become acquainted with the tools used in this process, and explore potential…
Case File Review with Your SART
Reviewing your community’s reported sexual assault case files can open many doors of opportunity for your SART to explore in order to make meaningful change.
The Foundation and Preparation Steps for Case File Review
Case File Review can be a long process for teams wanting to assess the response to victims of sexual assault; however, each piece of this…
Evaluation Information at Your Fingertips
Conducting an evaluation of your SART’s activities can feel like a momentous task, but it doesn’t have to be! In this webinar we will identify…
Are We Making a Difference? Sexual Assault Response Teams Assessing Systems Change
This resource includes stories from the field, tools, templates, and evaluation basics to get your team started in assessing its impact on sexual assault response…
Questions for Teams to Consider During Protocol Writing
Protocol writing is a significant task for teams to take on and can often feel overwhelming. It is a task that should not be taken…
Sexual Assault Team Protocol Template
Throughout the years, the Sexual Violence Justice Institute (SVJI) at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault has provided guidance and support to sexual violence response…