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Trauma-informed Interpreting
Trauma-informed Interpreting
- Best Practices
- Advocacy
- Legal
- Medical
- Victim population
- Latin@
- Brochures/Booklets/Resource lists
A guide on how interpreters can adopt a trauma-informed approach to prevent further harm when working with clients who may have experienced trauma. More >
Trauma-informed Interpreting

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Engaging Learners in Active Online Training
Engaging Learners in Active Online Training
- Best Practices
- Technical assistance bulletins
By bringing together your existing facilitation skills, your creativity, and a bit of thoughtful planning, you can repurpose many of your favorite face-to-face training strategies to deliver engaging, interactive, hands-on learning in the virtual classroom. This Technical Assistance Bulletin offers some guiding principles, activity adaptations, and practical tips to help you actively engage your learners in real-time online learning. More >
Engaging Learners in Active Online Training

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Fostering Connection, Empowerment, and Safety in Online Learning
Fostering Connection, Empowerment, and Safety in Online Learning
- Best Practices
- Technical assistance bulletins
Whether training face-to-face or online, an important part of your role is making learners feel connected, empowered, and safe. However, the limitations of the virtual environment can make this more difficult to accomplish. This Technical Assistance Bulletin outlines strategies for fostering connection, empowerment, and safety in online learning. More >
Fostering Connection, Empowerment, and Safety in Online Learning

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Designing Effective Slides for Online Learning
Designing Effective Slides for Online Learning
- Best Practices
- Media
- Technical assistance bulletins
Online learning is a highly visual medium, making presentation slides an especially powerful tool for gaining learners’ interest, guiding their focus, and making training more memorable. This Technical Assistance Bulletin describes best practices for creating effective and accessible slides, with some specific considerations for online learning environments. More >
Designing Effective Slides for Online Learning

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Youth Activism: Engaging Teens in the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement
Youth Activism: Engaging Teens in the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement
- Best Practices
- Advocacy
- Communities of Faith
- Schools
- High school
- Middle school
- Prevention
- For children
- For teens
- Victim population
- Children
- Technical assistance bulletins
This Technical Assistance Bulletin explains how advocates can work with youth to empower and educate themselves and others, reaching more teens than by presenting prevention curricula alone. More >
Youth Activism: Engaging Teens in the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement

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COVID-19 Best Practices for Re-opening Rape Crisis Centers
COVID-19 Best Practices for Re-opening Rape Crisis Centers
- Best Practices
- Workplaces
- Technical assistance bulletins
PCAR’s priority with these suggestions is the well-being of our center staffs and community members. These steps are intended to re ect the best interests and greatest safeness of survivors of sexual harassment, abuse, and assault, and of center staff. Not only do these measures help to protect ourselves, they are also the best recommendations at this time to prevent transmitting the virus to or exposing the people around us, particularly those we serve and who are in our care. More >
COVID-19 Best Practices for Re-opening Rape Crisis Centers

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U-Visa Certification Factsheet
U-Visa Certification Factsheet
- Public Awareness
- Technical assistance bulletins
Two landmark pieces of federal legislation—the Violence Against Women Act and the Traffcking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act—include important protections for immigrant victims. Through these Acts, individuals have the right to apply for U- and T-visas that enable them to live and work within the U.S. and access critical safety and advocacy services. More >
U-Visa Certification Factsheet

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Cy Pres Awards to Help End Sexual Violence
Cy Pres Awards to Help End Sexual Violence
- Best Practices
- Legal
- Brochures/Booklets/Resource lists
Cy pres awards use residual funds from class action cases to help charitable organizations with a like-minded mission reduce future harm. We encourage legal counsel and jurists to consider PCAR for cy pres awards in cases involving sexual abuse, harassment, and assault. More >
Cy Pres Awards to Help End Sexual Violence

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Title IX Factsheet: 2020 Updated Guidance
Title IX Factsheet: 2020 Updated Guidance
- Best Practices
- Schools
- Public Awareness
- Technical assistance bulletins
This document provides a summary of the most recent rules associated with Title IX, issued in May 2020 and taking effect in mid-August 2020. More >
Title IX Factsheet: 2020 Updated Guidance

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Piramide de violencia racial y sexual
Piramide de violencia racial y sexual
- Public Awareness
- En Español
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Piramide de violencia racial y sexual

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Best Practices in Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Best Practices in Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
- Best Practices
- Prevention
- For children
- Victim population
- Children
- Technical assistance bulletins
Pennsylvania Rape Crisis Centers have been working to prevent child sexual abuse for over 40 years. Many of the original prevention programs were carefully created with the best of intentions: to give children information and tools to prevent child sexual abuse. Now, decades later we have additional research and information that informs our approach to child sexual abuse prevention. This technical assistance bulletin is an overview of themes in current best practices for child sexual abuse prevention. More >
Best Practices in Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

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Parameters of Privilege and Confidentiality when Collaborating with Community Partners
Parameters of Privilege and Confidentiality when Collaborating with Community Partners
- Best Practices
- Counseling/Therapy
- General
- Brochures/Booklets/Resource lists
Collaboration is essential to promoting a path of healing and wholeness. This resource is a guide to assist sexual assault counselor/advocates and members of multidisciplinary teams in working together to meet the needs of survivors of sexual abuse, harassment, and assault across Pennsylvania. More >
Parameters of Privilege and Confidentiality when Collaborating with Community Partners

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