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SALI provides legal services to adult and child sexual assault survivors. Our attorneys conduct a legal review of survivors' needs and rights and provide expert representation. Visit us online or call 877-496-7254.
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Dear Ning ,
As the debate over the Violence Against Women Act moves to the House, we are reminded daily about what's at stake -- the care and well-being of tens of thousands of sexual assault survivors across our state. We salute the state's 17 rape crisis and recovery centers and each of you working in the field for your work -- providing compassionate, quality care to the survivors that you serve. The articles offered in this quarter's edition of Frontline, focus on caring for survivors of sexual assault -- from legal, systemic and very personal points of view.
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Caring for Survivors' Legal Needs | | MCASA's Sexual Assault Legal Institute (SALI) opened its doors in January 2004 in Silver Spring, Maryland. While working at House of Ruth, founding director Lisae C. Jordan saw many victims that needed help, but did not qualify because the violence against them was not perpetuated by an intimate partner or the case involved child sexual abuse. It became clear there was a gap in services, and SALI was created to help care for the legal needs of those survivors.
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| Systemic Support: How SARTS Can Benefit Survivors |
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The first SART (Sexual Assault Response Team) was created in California in 1987. Since then, this model of multidisciplinary teams of individuals working collaboratively to address sexual assault has been recognized as a national best practice and has stimulated a blossoming of teams across cities, campuses, tribes, and counties. While the formation of such teams is a significant step, their mere presence does not guarantee change. The discriminating and essential question then is: does the work of your SART filter down to the experience of the victim?
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The Power of the Unknown
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The following questions are not rhetorical, they are meant to be answered thoughtfully and intentionally. How do we take care of our erotic selves? Do we nurture them or do we walk in constant fear that our erotic selves will be stolen and abused? Do we talk with our erotic selves to understand her likes and dislikes, or know her favorite color? Do we know the potential of our erotic selves or do we only gauge that potential by the adversity and abuse she has had to overcome?
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We hope that the articles featured in this edition of Frontline inform your efforts to care for the survivors that you serve. Thank you, also, for all that you are doing to end sexual violence across our state.
We know that it is often easy to become overwhelemd with the scope of the problem and the depth of its impact. But we remain, like you, committed to putting survivors first.
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Warm regards,
Jennie Boden
Executive Director
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