The Collegiate Sexual Assault Online Resource Guide is a living collection of reports, best practices, articles, and resources for students, advocates, and college administrators.
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The Collegiate Sexual Assault Online Resource Guide is a living collection of reports, best practices, articles, and resources for students, advocates, and college administrators.
Expand the topic categories below for more information.
Enough Is Enough Program
Enough Is Enough Onboarding Resources for New Advocates (click here to access full playlist)
Clery Act
Title IX
This PDF is a 31-page guide detailing the statistics and importance of addressing campus sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking, along with information for institutions and individuals about how to handle these crimes on campus.
The Culture of Respect CORE Blueprint Program
The Core Blueprint was designed to engage students, parents, faculty, administrators, health professionals, athletes, and other campus stakeholders in implementing practices and policies that shift the culture to one free from sexual violence
Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting 2016 Edition, US Department of Education
This 265-page document published by the United States Department of Education covers the guidelines for higher education institutions for collecting and reporting data to comply with federal regulations and laws.
Sample Memorandum of Understanding between a University and a Rape Crisis Program/Advocacy Center
This page provides a template for a document outlining an agreement between a college and an organization to form a partnership handling incidents of sexual violence.
This page on the Office for Victims of Crime website provides information for implementing sexual assault response teams.
https://www.ovcttac.gov/saneguide/multidisciplinary-response-and-the-community/
This Office for Victims of Crime website details the benefits and processes for developing and practicing a multidisciplinary approach when responding to sexual assault in the community.
‘The Science of Preventing Sexual Assaults on College Campuses’, Live Science, July 2016
This article provides statistics on college sexual assault, discusses the effectiveness of certain prevention efforts, and theorizes about the reasons behind the prevalence of campus sexual assault.
This 120-page government publication assesses how colleges and universities report, investigate, and adjudicate sexual violence.
SUNY’s Toolkit to Aid Colleges in Building an Online Resource for Students
This is a list of all sexual assault and rape crisis centers in New York State.
The CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found for LGB people:
Within the LGBTQ community, transgender people and bisexual women face the most alarming rates of sexual violence. Among both of these populations, sexual violence begins early, often during childhood.
Resources
‘Self-Care and Social Justice Work’, The Body is Not an Apology, April 2015
This blog article discusses the importance of self care as to avoid burn out.
‘Tips for Survivors on Consuming Media’, RAINN
This article gives tips for survivors on how to deal with triggers when consuming media in print, on television, and online.
A Toolkit for Survivors During COVID-19
Survivors of sexual assault are experiencing the deep impact of this moment in ways we could never have imagined. Those of us in abusive situations and those who are seeking therapy are struggling to get the support they need. Conditions that were already challenging are now exacerbated, and the needs of sexual assault survivors are being left out of the national dialogue in more ways than one. Click here to access A Toolkit for Survivors During COVID-19, created by the ‘me too.’ Movement.
Who Do I Tell? How Do I Tell? Toolkit
For individuals who have experienced or know someone who has experienced sexual assault, this toolkit provides question prompts and tips for deciding who to disclose to, and how. Click here to access the toolkit, created by the ‘me too.’ Movement.
Coping with Triggers
A “trigger” is a trauma reminder. It can be a feeling, a smell, a place, a topic, anything that engages our nervous system and prompts a survival response. It is a surprise emotion, a memory that our body holds, one that may feel like it comes out of nowhere. Click here to access the Coping with Triggers toolkit, created by the ‘me too.’ Movement.
Healing Justice Practice Spaces Toolkit
This “how-to” guide from Autumn Brown & Maryse Mitchell-Brody explains how to create an intentional healing justice practice space. The authors offer that a Healing Justice Practice Space (HJPS) is an all-gender, all-bodied, inclusive and accessible space for practicing and receiving healing that is built in partnership with social justice movement work and sites of political action. These spaces typically offer a wide variety of health and healing services, including (but not limited to) first aid, counseling and crisis support, mediation services, massage therapy, acupuncture, energy work, herbal therapy, divination, art therapy, nutritional counseling, and yoga. This thoughtful guide walks through the what, the who, and the how so that you might create your own HJPS within your community. Click here to access the toolkit, created by the ‘me too.’ Movement.
Books to Support Healing from Sexual Violence
Healing Honestly recently put together a list of books to support survivors’ healing from sexual violence. NYSCASA has sent some of these books to member rape crisis programs, including Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement, and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Check out the full book list here.
Grounding and Self-Soothing Techniques
There are a great number of tools and resources to assist survivors with grounding and self-soothing as they move through their healing journey. Here are some resources recommended by NYSCASA staff:
International toll free crisis hot line: 866-USWOMEN
A 24/7 live chat on their website: www.866uswomen.org
There is also a crisis email: [email protected]
The New York State Training and Technical Assistance Center provides training and technical assistance for rape crisis and sexual violence programs who work with victims and survivors of sexual violence in New York State, with a focus on providing support on “Enough is Enough” programming. The Center is a joint partnership between the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA) and the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault (the Alliance) to support the NYS Department of Health Rape Crisis and Enough is Enough Programs.
Resources from the Training and Technical Assistance Center:
Athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young men, often serving as a parent or mentor to the boys they coach. Because of these special relationships, coaches are uniquely poised to positively influence how young men think and behave both on, and off, the field. FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE’s Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program facilitates these connections by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault. For more than a decade, the program has been implemented in communities across the U.S. and around the world. From Sacramento and Dallas, to India and South Africa, the program’s messages have proven universal. The CBIM curriculum consists of a series of coach-to-athlete trainings that illustrate ways to model respect and promote healthy relationships.
Resources for advocates:
The goals of this virtual series are to:
Webinar recordings: