Sexual Assault Awareness Month – April 2022 In April, Rape Response commemorated Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence. Staff wore teal outfits and ribbons to recognize the month’s liturgical color. Staff also took part in a […]
America Ferrera – Survivor Spotlight! America Ferrera is a widely-recognized Honduran-American actress best known for her roles in Real Women Have Curves, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and most famously as Betty Suarez on the ABC’s comedy-drama television series Ugly Betty. An LA native and youngest of 6, many know that she began as a […]
Welcome new RRI Campus Advocate, Sarah Marin! Sarah will be serving as Rape Response’s Campus Advocate & Outreach Coordinator. Sarah recently obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with a minor in Education from Brenau University. She began volunteering with RRI in February of 2021 as a way to help survivors in her community. In her […]
March is Women’s History Month, and this March, we are highlighting many amazing women who have made a tremendous impact on our world! Daisy Coleman Daisy was a sexual assault advocate who starred in the 2016 documentary, Audrie and Daisy. This powerful documentary explores Daisy’s experience of sexual assault at a party when she was […]
Empathy is an important trait that is absolutely crucial not just for victim advocates to possess, but for anyone trying to be supportive towards their friends, family, or loved ones who are going through tough times or experiencing some form of hardship. So what exactly is empathy? Empathy can be described as the ability to […]
There is no arguing that COVID has created numerous challenges for us as a nation, as an agency, and as individuals. Many of the survivors we serve have especially felt the impact of COVID in their own lives and families. Many families who (prior to COVID) struggled to pay their bills and put food on […]
Nadie puede discutir que la llegada de COVID-19 ha creado numerosos problemas en el mundo, nuestro país, y la comunidad en general. Muchísimos de nuestros clientes, al igual que sus familias, han sentido el impacto de COVID-19 en sus vidas. Antes de COVID-19, muchas familias ya estaban esforzándose pagar las cuentas mensuales, y poner comida […]
In our nation today, teen dating violence is more common than people suspect. According to the Love is Respect Teen Hotline, “One in three teens in the US will experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse from someone they’re in a relationship with before they become adults, and nearly half (43%) of college women report experiencing […]
Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecrafts during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program. Her work helped send astronauts to the Moon. When she was a small child, it became apparent that she had a brilliant intelligence and amazing skill […]
Medical Accompaniment for a SANE exam Rape Response Advocates support sexual assault survivors in the hospital emergency department. Survivors living within our six county service area (Habersham, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Dawson, Hall, and White) can receive a Forensic Medical Exam at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center-Gainesville. During this exam, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) collects […]
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