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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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A Guide to Trauma-Informed Supervision
A Guide to Trauma-Informed Supervision
- Best Practices
- Toolkit/Manuals/Information Packets/Surveys
Working with trauma can affect advocates in many ways. Sometimes they are so focused on a survivor’s healing journey, they neglect their own well-being. This is why organizations must take responsibility for encouraging organizational trauma prevention and vicarious trauma prevention. More >
A Guide to Trauma-Informed Supervision

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Racial & Sexual Violence Pyramid
Racial & Sexual Violence Pyramid
- Public Awareness
- Brochures/Booklets/Resource lists
This graphic depicts the connection and overlap between racial and sexual violence. The left side of the pyramid shows examples of sexual violence, and the right side shows examples of racial violence in five different categories: attitudes and beliefs, individual acts of prejudice, institutional discrimination, violence, and death. The examples outside the pyramid show where there is overlap between racial and sexual violence in these same categories. Attitudes and beliefs are the foundation that continue to uphold both individual acts of prejudice, and institutional and systemic discrimination, that contribute to violence and death. This is not an exhaustive list of examples, but is a starting point to help others understand the connection. More >
Racial & Sexual Violence Pyramid

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Legal Advocate Checklist
Legal Advocate Checklist
- Best Practices
- Legal
- Toolkit/Manuals/Information Packets/Surveys
This checklist may be used by rape crisis center staff legal advocates when providing accompaniment for survivors. More >
Legal Advocate Checklist

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Sexual Assault Testing and Evidence Collection Act Factsheet
Sexual Assault Testing and Evidence Collection Act Factsheet
- Best Practices
- Advocacy
- Legal
- Medical
- Forensic rape exam
- SANE/SAFE nurses
- Public Awareness
- Technical assistance bulletins
An overview of the Sexual Assault Testing and Evidence Collection Act of 2019. More >
Sexual Assault Testing and Evidence Collection Act Factsheet

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