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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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…
Using STOP Funding to Meaningfully Address Sexual Violence
The Services * Training * Officers * Prosecutors (STOP) Violence Against Women Formula Grant works to improve the legal response to violent crimes against women…
Moving Towards Meaningful: A STOP Administrator’s experience influencing change in the state’s response to sexual violence
The Violence Against Women Act reauthorization of 2013 directed state administrators of STOP funds to set aside 20 percent of their funds for programs or…
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.
IAFN Exam Reimbursement Resources
SANEs are educated in and can assist hospitals and victims in understanding the laws about billing, and the rights and resources available to victims. Services…
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…