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A community-based response to sexual assault provides victims with services that include medical care, legal response, and advocacy. This message from a sexual assault survivor informs stakeholders in sexual assault reform about the importance of involving a survivor to achieve a community-based response and provide needed support to victims.
Engaging Victims, Multidisciplinary Response
Creating a Strong Multidisciplinary Team and/or Sexual Assault Response Team, Victim Notification
Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative aims to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases. Through this program, funding is provided to support multidisciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits.