Promising Practice Programs & Responses for Sexual Assault
ACSSA is developing a database of "promising practice" programs and approaches in responding to sexual assault. Once established the database will be available for searching. Currently, program details are available for browsing from the links below.
Aboriginal Healing Project
This two-year project will provide healing
services to Indigenous individuals and families
affected by family and domestic violence, and
sexual violence, with the goal of measurably
increasing safety and reducing harm within families.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.17]
About Date Rape Website
The About Date Rape website provides non-judgmental and supportive information to young people seeking help or information about date rape and sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.6]
Another Layer of Trauma
This
program is a full day workshop that focuses on
the traumatic impact of sexual abuse in Aboriginal
communities.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
Anyone's
Story - Video and DVD
'Anyone's Story' is a
contemporary teaching resource for health and
police educators to deliver education to workers/members
on responding to adult victims of sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.9]
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
Community awareness campaign to promote understanding
around adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
BITSS
of Protective Play - A skill based workshop for family
and child workers
BITSS is a parent friendly,
in-the-home, model of child sexual assault prevention.
It is a play-based model that makes use of items
that surround children in their daily life and that
can act as positive triggers for remembering
personal safety.
Celebrate don't
Violate
Health promotion and crime prevention
strategy targeting school leavers.
Feeling Safe
Together
Providing safety programs in primary
schools through training of staff, parents and
children.
Forensic & Medical
Sexual Assault Care (FAMSAC)
FAMSAC provides
high quality forensic and medical care to people
who have experienced sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
Information Kit About Sexual Assault for the Deaf Community
Information
brochure and DVD about sexual assault, specifically
designed to meet the needs of the deaf community.
Jacaranda Project
The Northern Sydney Sexual Assault Service group work program for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Joint Springvale Monash Community Legal Service/South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault Clinic (SECASA)
Provision of legal representation to victim/survivors of sexual assault and training of law
students in dealing with sexual assault matters.
Kids Quest Project
Community
awareness/education program and a therapeutic-response
program for child victim/survivors of sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
Kinks and Bends: What's the go with relationships
An
educational program to prevent sexual violence
in young peoples lives.
Medical Responses to Adults who have Experienced Sexual Assault: an interactive educational module for doctors
An interactive educational module for doctors
including trainees in Emergency Medicine, General
Practice, Surgery, Psychiatry and some components
of Adult Medicine, as well as Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists.
Preventing Prisoner Rape Project - Prisoner Rape Support Package
The Prisoner Rape Support Package has
been developed by the Preventing Prisoner Rape Project to
try to provide assistance to men who have been
raped or sexually assaulted in prison.
Professional and Community Training in Sexuality and Disability
Training
workshops and seminars for support workers,
service providers and carers of people with
disabilities in the area of sexuality.
Protocol: A coordinated approach to better respond to drug facilitated sexual assault, Darwin Urban.
A
Protocol developed to ensure all victims of
drug-facilitated sexual assault receive appropriate
treatment and referrals, and to improve the
current services provided to victims/survivors
of drug-facilitated sexual assault by promoting
a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities
of service providers.
Rape Crisis Online
Rape
Crisis Online offers an alternate way for callers
to access NSW Rape Crisis Centre counsellors
by providing a real time, online, person to
person crisis intervention service accessed via
the Centre’s
website. [Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
Respect - Day of action against sexual violence
'Respect' is a community education program conducted in the Shoalhaven region to coincide with the Day of Action Against Sexual Violence (DAASV). It has employed several strategies and targeted a range of population groups over it's five year life span.
Respect, Protect, Connect
School
based peer educator program for years 7-12.
Respect Relate Stop Rape
Respect
Relate Stop Rape is a four-session school-based
program that empowers young people to break the
silence around sexual violence.
It gives participants the knowledge and skills
to better understand sexual violence and to stay
safe.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
'Responding to sexual assault and promoting sexual safety' within Queensland Health inpatient mental health services
The responding to sexual assault and promoting sexual safety initiative
has undertaken extensive Statewide consultation
to develop local area policy and procedures for
responding to victims of recent and past sexual
assault and promoting sexual safety within Queensland
Health inpatient mental health services for consumers
aged 16 years and over.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.8]
SAMSSA - Service Assisting Male Survivors of Sexual Assault
SAMSSA
is one of the few service providers that offer
counselling and support for male victims/survivors.
SAMSSA provides face to face counselling, telephone
counselling, email-based assistance, referral, support
for workers/carers/family members, education and
training to the community sector.
SEA Change Program
SEA
Change is a structured group for women who meet
once a week over an 8 week period.
The SEA Change Program is oriented to encouraging
participants to socialise in order to break the
isolation associated with violence/abuse and
mental health and improving women's self-esteem
and assertiveness.
Sexual Assault and Intellectual Disability Kit
Resource for teaching people with an intellectual disability about sexual assault.
Sexual assault - An information booklet for the Bosnian community
The
aim of this booklet is to increase knowledge and
understanding of the issues surrounding sexual assault
within the Bosnian Community and provide information
about access and support.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.10]
Sexual Assault in Disability and Aged Care Action Strategy Project
This project aims to effectively prevent and respond to sexual assault of vulnerable women in
disability and aged care residential settings.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.18]
Sexual Assault Resource
Centre - Education and Training Unit
The
training program provides staff at the Office
of the Director of Public Prosecutions for
Western Australia with a greater understanding
of the nature and impact of sexual violence
on complainants. It hopes to increase their
knowledge about the impact of sexual assault
and abuse, and in turn, to increase their sensitivity
in dealing with complainants.
Sexual Violence Services Tampon Card
Innovative
method of distributing sexual assault information
to women in a discreet, confidential manner.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.4]
SHAPES - Sexual Harassment and Assault Peer Education and Support Program
The
SHAPES program trains select groups of tertiary
students as SHAPES 'Reps'. 'Reps' are educated
on what constitutes sexual harassment and
assault and how to support fellow students
who have been harassed or assaulted as well
as how to educate peers about sexual violence. share
share, stands for "sexual health and relationships education".
It is a new project that aims to improve the
sexual health, well-being and safety of young people
by supporting school communities to deliver education
in a safe, supportive environment.
Sharing Community
Education Campaigns: Bus Advertisements and
Postcard Advertisements
A
two-part community awareness and education campaign
on childhood sexual assault run by Women's Health
Statewide and Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault
Service. [Read
profile ACSSA AWARE No.7]
Shredded
"Shredded" is
a short video drama and education kit based on
the stories of women from the Annie North Women's
Refuge and Domestic Violence Service. It explores
the murky and uncertain lines between what is
normal couple conflict and what clearly becomes
an unhealthy relationship of power and control which
emotionally affects the whole family.
Southern Sexual Abuse Counselling and Prevention Program
Adolescent
sex offender treatment program.
State wide Drink Spiking Community Education Campaign
The
State-wide Drink Spiking Community Education
Campaign, disseminates educational messages to
patrons in over 130 selected licensed venues
(hotels, nightclubs and bars), in metropolitan
and regional Victoria on the dangers and other
harms associated with drink spiking.
The Man who Stole my Mother's Face
'The
Man who Stole my Mother's Face' is an award-winning
documentary available on DVD, VHS and online.
It explores the unsolved case of the rape of
the filmmaker's own mother.
The Right to Party Safely
Research
on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assaults
occurring in and around licensed venues, and
development of responses.
Understanding and Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence
A
one day training program designed to increase
the knowledge and skills of refuge and domestic
violence workers in relation to Intimate Partner
Sexual Assault (IPSA).
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.5]
Understanding and Teaching About Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse
This project aims to increase the competence and confidence of teachers and other people who work with young people, in the discussion of sexual violence.
Victorian CASA Forum Inc.
The
Victorian CASA Forum Inc. is the peak body of
the 15 Centres Against Sexual Assault, and the
Victorian Sexual Assault Crisis Line (After Hours).
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
'What the law says about sex' pamphlet
This
brochure is aimed at educating and preventing
child abuse in the remote Aboriginal communities
of Western Australia.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.11]
Working with Older Women: Resources and Standards for Responding
to Current or Past Violence
Training and resource
manual for sexual assault and domestic violence
workers.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.3]
Working with Young Women Who Self Harm: A resource for workers
A
resource book for counsellors and other sexual
assault workers supporting young women who self-harm.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
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