Educational Tools/Resources

• ACOG’s Drawing the Line: A Guide to Developing Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Programs for Middle School Students (2000)
  This guide is designed to help adults who routinely come in contact with middle school students to design sexual assault prevention programs. It includes some promising programs and a list of resources.
• ACOG’s Violence Against Women - Screening Tools
  A brief statement and set of questions to use to screen patients for domestic violence, or sexual assault.
• CDC’s Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Guide to Training Materials and Programs for Health Care Providers (1998)
  This guide describes 36 training materials/programs by target audience, medium, and contact for information.
• CSAP’s Silence Hurts: Alcohol Abuse and Violence Against Women
  This web-based course for professionals provides information about alcohol abuse and several forms of violence against women, screening and assessment tools, prevention and intervention strategies, and legal issues.
• MDH’s A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence
  This resource kit is for communities, service providers and others, and provides information, strategies and tools for the prevention of sexual violence.
• OVC’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Development & Operation Guide (1999)
  This guide describes the SANE program for responding to victims of sexual assault in a systematic format, and includes many samples of essential forms and policies.

Reports/Publications

• Directory of Projects Working to Eliminate Sexual Violence: A Directory of National Organizations and Projects (2002)
  This National Sexual Violence Resource Center directory includes national organizations and projects which significantly address some aspect of sexual violence.
• Drug-Facilitated Rape: Looking for the Missing Pieces (2000)
  This National Institute of Justice report summarizes findings about drug-facilitated rape learned by researchers at the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Perspectives on Acquaintance Rape (1997)
  This American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress article reviews the prevalence, characteristics, effects, and prevention of acquaintance rape.
• Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention, 1992-2000 (2002)
  This Bureau of Justice Statistics report provides the percentages of completed rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of females that were reported to the police in 1992-2000 and the percentage of these victims who were injured and treated.
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs: Improving the Community Response to Sexual Assault Victims (2001)
  This Office of Victims of Crime bulletin examines the impact of SANE programs on victims and communities.
• Sexual Victimization of College Women (2000)
  This research report from the Bureau of Justice explores the prevalence and nature of sexual assault at colleges.
• Sexual Violence: Fact Sheet
  This CDC fact sheet provides an overview of sexual violence.
• Victim Reaction to Sexual Assault
  This National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center handout describes typical victim reactions to sexual assault. Available in English and in Spanish.
• Violence Against Women Prevention Programming: Report of What is in Use
  This National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center report presents 2001 survey information on the nature and type of community programs in use to assist women and their families who are victims.

National Sexual Violence Resource Center

1-877-739-3895 or 717-909-0715 (TTY). (M-F 9am-5pm EST, to 8pm T & W; offering information, resources, and research regarding sexual assault.) Complete a request for information form online at: http://www.nsvrc.org

Links to Other Resources

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Violence Against Women
  Provides information and resources for providers and consumers that address violence against women.
• Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI)
  Provides information, training, education, and program evaluation for agencies, practitioners, and organizations on family violence and sexual assault.
• Male Survivor
  Offers information and resources to survivors and others to prevent and heal male sexual victimization.
• MEDLINEplus: Rape
  Provides information on rape from the National Library of Medicine.
• Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA)
  Offers a database of organizations addressing violence, and an electronic clearinghouse of educational resources on all types of violence.
• National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
  Offers training, consultation, and advocacy to end domestic and sexual violence, and a resource library.
• National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women (VAWnet)
  Provides online resources on domestic violence and sexual assault, an electronic library, links to other sources, and information on finding help for victims.
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
  Offers information, statistics, and resources related to sexual violence; provides an online calendar of conferences and a searchable library database.
• National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center (NVAWPRC)
  Offers training materials, consultation to advocacy groups, literature reviews on violence-related topics, and a For Survivors section on resources for victims.
• Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Dept. Justice
  Offers information on federal laws, state hotlines and advocacy groups; the VAW Online Resources link provides research and promising practices on issues such as domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Sexual Assault Response Team (SANE-SART)
  Offers information and assistance to develop/improve a SANE -SART program, a SANE program locator for locating local programs, and other resources.

National Sexual Assault Hotline

1-800-656-HOPE (1-800-656-4673). (24-hour resource offering free, confidential counseling and support to survivors of sexual assault.) Search for a local rape counseling center or request information online at the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) Web site at: http://www.rainn.org.