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How Friends and Family Can Support Survivors of Sexual Assault
We recently spoke with Michele Paolella, LMSW, director of social services and training at Day One (a New York-based nonprofit organization focused on domestic violence and sexual assault among young people), about ways to support victims of sexual assault and trauma—and avoid re-traumatizing them.
How To Teach Your Kids Consent (& Still Get Them In The Damn Tub)
“It can feel challenging to balance the desire to send young children positive messages around consent and their body autonomy with the fact that they still need adult guidance and assistance with many daily tasks and survival,” Bachman says. “If a child is being asked to do something but doesn’t want to, it is important that adults take their reservations/refusals seriously, ask about/listen to their concerns, and explain why exactly it is important that they do what is being asked of them.”
Jacobi Medical Center identifies growing cyber domestic abuse
Caitlin Prior, Day One training supervisor and staff attorney, who facilitated the training at Jacobi, said she believes that technology is just another “tool in the abuser’s toolbox.”
Trailblazers in the Prevention of Domestic Violence Honored at the ‘Mary Kay Ash Heart of Courage Awards’
The Mary Kay Ash Heart of Courage Awards Steering Committee, which is comprised of leaders from the National Network to End Domestic Violence Hotline, Break the Cycle, Futures Without Violence, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, voted to honor the following individuals and/or organizations in five categories:
Writing On The Wall 4thU Artivists Benefit Performances for Day One and 1 Billion Rising, October 13th & 14th, New York City
4thU Artivists, a NYC-based creative nonprofit, will produce two staged readings of Writing on the Wall to raise funds and awareness to help end violence against women and girls. To date, 4thU Artivists have raised over $110,000 for numerous organizations. Proceeds from the October 13th and 14th performances will benefit Day One and One Billion Rising.
Yes, “Stealthing” Is Sexual Assault — & Survivors Can Take Legal Action
“The stealthing partner has unilaterally decided what kind of sexual act will be participated in by both parties,” says Caitlin Prior, a staff attorney and training supervisor at Day One, an NYC-based organization that works to end dating abuse. “The stealthing partner has made decisions about the other partner’s health, well-being, future, family plans, emotional and physical well-being without a care for the other partner’s position.” That’s sexual assault.