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Campus Safety Awareness
September is not just back to school time, it is also Campus Safety Awareness Month. This offers us a great opportunity to engage schools in conversations about sexual violence. Here is a list of resources for both campus-based and community-based advocacy programs striving to effectively respond to and prevent sexual violence on campuses.
Recent WCSAP Materials
Additional Resources
We would love to hear more about your campus work and the events you have planned in your community!
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Help Vision Our Next Annual Conference
The WCSAP Annual Conference Steering Committee is looking for members! We encourage advocates at community sexual assault programs, trauma therapists and members of underrepresented communities to submit applications from across WA state. Help us create our goals, theme, topics, materials, desired workshops, etc. Are you up for the opportunity to be creative and contribute your input to the process?
APPLICATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 14th.
Click here to learn more about the committee and to submit your application.
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SAVE THE DATE
WCSAP's 2013 Lobby Day is Monday, February 11, 2013. Check out our WCSAP web page on Addressing Public Policy for more information on the legislative process, the work that we do on the hill, and how you can get involved. Your voice is crucial! Please join us!
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Tips provide quick, practical information on a variety of topics, tools and resources. Here are the latest!
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Special Collection: Men and Boys: Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence
This collection was developed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. It provides resources to increase capacity, explores the social construction of masculinity, and the impact that pro-feminist men can have on advancing the anti-violence movement.
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WashingTeenHelp.org
A website designed to connect pregnant and parenting teens to health information, state benefit programs, and community-specific support resources. This website offers valuable information and resources for all teens including topics such as relationships, dating violence, general and sexual health, pregnancy, parenting, legal resources, and planning for the future.
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URGENT UPDATE:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DREAMERS) Can Also Help Immigrant Survivors
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[Ending Violence] 
A new and innovative curriculum from Break the Cycle that will provide you with tools to:
- Help teens prevent and safely end abusive relationships
- Understand their legal rights and responsibilities
- Create a framework for building healthy relationships in the future
WCSAP maintains over 6,000 books, articles, videos, curricula, and other resources; all available for loan to our members via our Lending Library.
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Managers' Institute:
Organizational Approaches to Understanding and Managing Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue
In-Person
Friday, Oct. 19th in Port Angeles, WA
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Save the Date!
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Brain Development and Trauma, and Resilience
In-Person
Friday, Nov. 2nd in Yakima, WA
This training is for sexual assault advocates. Registration will be available mid-September
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Reflections from the
National Sexual Assault Conference
A number of WCSAP staff recently attended the 2012 National Sexual Assault Conference in Chicago. Logan co-presented a workshop entitled The Perfect Sexual Assault Case: Moving Beyond the Myth, which was based on her master's research regarding the factors influencing sexual assault case filing decisions in King County, WA. Following a discussion of the local and national research on the processing of sexual assault cases in the criminal justice system, participants were provided with advocacy strategies for closing the "justice gap" in their communities. As Andrea shared, "the conference keep us busy and reflective on the work we do and why. The theme, Revive, Rethink, Reclaim, to me spoke to a collective call to action. One that asked us to not only nourish ourselves in doing this work, but to be relevant, critical and to question the ways in which we have shaped our movement to meet survivors needs and to move forward with lessons at heart, homage, intention, fire in our bellies, and vision." We look forward to sharing what we have learned and furthering these conversations. |
 The Dan Hally Project
An update from Sara Kern
Last Fall, the Community Sexual Assault Program of Asotin County was approached by the Asotin County Sheriff's Office about teaming up for a project at Clarkston High School.
Captain Dan Hally was looking for a group of students to help him in his work as an Internet Crimes Against Children Investigator. This is how our Community Development Project was born. CSAP staff teamed with Captain Hally and a school counselor to select 10 students as our stakeholders.
The stakeholders took time to identify how sexual violence was perpetuated at their school and how this could be portrayed to the rest of the student body in a way that they would learn from. After identifying the problem and their goals, the students decided to create YouTube videos that could be shown at a school assembly. This group created videos that focused on sexting, bullying and on-line safety.
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While this prevention project had a few hiccups along the way, it was an overall success and the students hope this is something to continue for years to come. In fact, there have been talks with the school counselor about working towards making this an official club for students to join or a class that students can get credits for.
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Thank-you to Sara, and all the staff at the Asotin County Community Sexual Assault Program, for sharing this update and for all that you do!
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Congratulations to Lindsay Palmer, the 2012
Gail Burns-Smith Award Winner!
The award, jointly sponsored by ATSA and the NSVRC, is named in honor of Gail Burns-Smith who committed her life to strengthening the partnership between advocates in the sexual violence prevention field and those working in the area of sex offender management and treatment.
Lindsay is the Director of Prevention at the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) in Renton, Wash. In addition, she is the founder of the annual Interfaith Symposium and project coordinator for a grant through the Department of Justice's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART). Working with SMART, Palmer assists state and local jurisdictions in establishing comprehensive strategies to manage sex offenders under community supervision.
Congrats!
Read the full press release by clicking here.
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In Solidarity,
WCSAP
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