As sexual assault advocates, we serve anyone who seeks services, including children, adults, people in later life, and youth. Certain age groups across the lifespan can be challenging for advocates to work with for a range of reasons outside the survivor’s control.
This manual provides a brief overview on the unique issues young people who are sexual violence survivors face. Also included are tip sheets on working with teen survivors, information on confidentiality and mandated reporting laws, information on the teen brain, an annotated bibliography of recent research, and more.
Publish Date
2018
We reached out to you, our partners and community members, to learn about your work in the movement.
This guide was developed for local rape crisis advocates who may be asked to work with a survivor with autism. It is a brief primer on autism, how persons who have autism may respond to a traumatic event and the importance of working with disability providers in a collaborative fashion. There are resource lists for advocates as well as organizational tools designed to assist programs who want to better serve the disability communities.
Publish Date
September 2018
Stories can be powerful, and sometimes it takes just one person to tell their story so others are empowered to come forward.
