Sexual Assault Resources

List of State Sexual Assault Coalitions
This is a complete list of the contact information for each state's sexual assault coalition. Contact your coalition or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for information on local services for victims of sexual assault.

National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations for Adults and Adolescents
This first National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations provides detailed guidelines for criminal justice and health care practitioners in responding to the immediate needs of sexual assault victims.

National training standards for sexual assault medical forensic examinations for Adults and Adolescents
The National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations for Adults and Adolescents provides details on the roles of responders to sexual assault as part of a coordinated community response. National Training Standards for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiners is a companion to the protocol and includes recommendations for training objectives and topics that will enable an examiner to carry out the recommendations.

Collaboration for Victims’ Rights and Services, By Anne Seymour
This chapter explores the concept of collaboration and recommended strategies for successful collaborative efforts to enhance public safety and improve victim services by examining types of working relationships, challenges to successful working relationships, moving beyond “traditional” stakeholders for collaborative initiatives, the community as a partner in collaboration, the relationships among national, state, and local victim services, and providing a checklist for successful collaborative efforts. Office for Victims of Crime, National Victim Assistance Academy 2000, Chapter 19.

Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey, November 2000
This NIJ Research Report presents findings on the prevalence and incidence of rape, physical assault, and stalking; the rate of injury among rape and physical assault victims; and injured victims' use of medical devices. Findings in this report, which are based on the National Violence Against Women Survey, show that violence is more widespread and injurious to women's and men's health than previously thought.

Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge's Role in Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault Cases
The National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts announces an important new resource for education about rape that is focused on judges but is relevant also to probation departments, prosecutors, defense attorneys, victim advocates, medical personnel, and police. Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judge's Role in Stranger and Non-stranger Rape and Sexual Assault Cases is a self-directed video version of NJEP's highly regarded model judicial education curriculum, Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judicial Response to Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault. The video/self-study guide version will enable judges to access critical information on an as-needed basis and on their own time schedules. The curriculum focuses on learning to deal fairly with sexual assault cases, especially nonstranger rapes, without undermining defendants' constitutional rights. This flyer provides a summary of the curriculum and ordering instructions.