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…
Tools & Resources
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…
Putting Action into Words: A Practical Guide to Protocol Development
Protocol development can be a daunting yet exciting time for SART coordinators and their teams. Some teams have never had written protocols; others have been…
What Do Sexual Assault Cases Look Like in Our Community? A Sexual Assault Response Team’s Workbook for Case File Review
The task of ensuring safety, justice, and healing as it relates to sexual violence is daunting. A team’s success rests on its ability to build…
Becoming Victim‐Centered
Victim‐centered means something different to agencies and teams. Victim‐centered means that all responders have designed their practices, policies, and protocols to reflect best practices that…
Team and Meeting Planning Tool
A worksheet to assist team leaders in developing a set of concrete goals and outcomes for meetings.
Mission Vision Goal Setting Builders Spanish
Uso para equipos multidisciplinarios…
Readiness Assessment Survey
A step-by-step guide to learn about what your potential team might need to support collaborative work.
Phases of Systems Change
SVJI’s Model for Continuous Improvement of the Sexual Violence Response…
Sexual Assault Response Teams & Systems Change
What is a SART? A Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is one strategy a community can use to improve their systems response to sexual violence.
SVJI Core Intervention Principles
Sexual Assault Response Teams work to improve a community’s response to sexual violence by designing multidisciplinary, victim-centered interventions. Through various tools and training, these teams…
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.