For women and children who are living through Hurricane Harvey, reaching a place of safety from the storm often means exposure to another danger: sexual violence. As Hurricanes Rita and Katrina demonstrated in 2005, natural disasters often create environments ripe for sexual exploitation, with many sexual assaults occurring at crowded evacuation sites and shelters.
The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund
sexual assault resources
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Helping Sexual Assault Victims Navigate the Criminal Justice System: Effective Use of a Multidisciplinary ApproachThis webinar was originally presented on December 15, 2016 to OVW Legal Assistance for Victims grantees and others interested in this topic.
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Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge's Role - DVD Fl
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This flyer describes available training materials and resources on adult victim sexual assault which NJEP can provide to judges, court personnel, and other multidisciplinary audiences. National Judicial Education Program Resources and Materials on Adult VIctim Sexual Assault
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Surviving Campus Sexual Assault: An Overview of Your Rights as a Student
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Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judicial Response to Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual AssaultA two-day model curriculum that focuses on dealing fairly with sexual assault cases, especially nonstranger rapes. It provides interdisciplinary research from law, medicine, and the social sciences about adult victim sexual assault and invites judges to consider how this information relates to their responsibilities in the pre-trial, trial, and sentencing phases of sexual assault trials, and as leaders in the criminal justice system and the community.