With funding from the Office for Victims of Crime and assistance from a national advisory committee, the NSVRC is creating a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Toolkit to promote the development and implementation of a coordinated, multidisciplinary, and victim-centered first response to victims of sexual assault in communities across the United States and U.S. Territories. The Toolkit Project will provide resources that will help communities customize their outreach and expand services to underserved communities.

The Toolkit will specifically address the needs of rural, tribal, campus and military settings in an effort to promote victim centered responses in multi-jurisdictional venues.
The toolkit includes:

• Compilation of evidence-based model protocols and policies and a bibliography of scientific literature
• Compendium of promising practices, especially those that serve populations in rural, remote, tribal, military, institutional or campus settings
• Operational guide that includes information on such topics as program sustainability; expanding outreach for diverse and underserved victim populations; legal and jurisdictional issues; SART member roles/ responsibilities
• SART Educational Video
• Multidisciplinary training workshop

National Needs Assessment Results
Training and Technical Assistance
National SART Listserv
This project is supported by grant number 2004-VF-GX-K007 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U. S. Department of Justice