Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP) Content Topic Results

This document provides a list of statutes by state on the use of interpreters in civil proceedings.

This article discusses the gap in services for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence and how both sexual assault and domestic violence service providers can help fill that gap.

This issue focuses on the intersection between sexual victimization and homeless youth, and provides an overview of research on this topic area.

This article offers insight into how we might tailor sexual violence prevention programs to specifically address issues of re-victimization.

Compilation of resources and tools from a gathering of students, campus program coordinators, campus police, and local rape crisis centers in WA State to share ideas and learn about campus initiatives to address sexual assault.

An interreligious resource produced by the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. Designed to build partnerships between community organizations and faith-based communities and to involve faith groups in the prevention of sexual violence.

Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'

Advocates working on college campuses or with college students should understand their local colleges sexual assault policy. This will help them be prepared to advocate for a survivor-centered approach when issues arise. This paper outlines some of the most common missteps to watch out for, then identifies promising practices used by campuses in our region, and finally provides tips and resources for advocates.

This edition abstacts reasearh that describes some promising approaches being used when victims present for a medical exam; how traumatic events predict drug severity; a model progam being used in Canada to treat drug addicted child sexual assault survivors; substance abuse among pregnant and perinatal women; and outlines the relationship of alcohol abuse and sexual assault amongst two Native American tribes, African American women, and differences between heterosexual and lesbian women.

This issue provides articles on the intersections of feminism and the anti-sexual violence movement. Articles include:

This issue also explores articles that discuss effects of victimization as risk factors, rather than inevitable damage.

Articles include: