RIGHT TO - YWCA USA

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Highlights:
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SART’s 40 active volunteers provided more than 1,100 hours of direct
crisis intervention to victims in local emergency departments. SART
maintained its 100 percent response rate to requests for services.
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In 2010, support groups increased from one group to four and are as
follows: Rape Survivors; Adolescent, in collaboration with St. Louis
Circuit Attorney’s Office; Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Sexual
Assault Support group, in collaboration with Women’s Place.
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Fifty nurses and nine police officers and social service professionals
attended the 40-hour Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training,
a collaborative with St. Mary’s Hospital. Nurses were from St. Anthony’s,
St. Mary’s, DePaul, Barnes, SLU, Jefferson Regional, Mineral Area Medical
Center, St. Luke’s, St. Joseph, Barnes-Jewish, St. John’s Mercy, Cardinal
Glennon and Iron County Medical Center.
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Center associates were sought-after expert presenters for trainings and
conferences. Four associates were featured presenters at the Missouri
Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence Annual Conference,
where more than 250 service providers from across the state attended in
Columbia, Mo.; in November, the center offered professional training for
SANE trainees and police officers in Phelps County, Mo.; an associate was
a panelist and group facilitator at the National Women of Color Violence
Against Women Network national conference in New Orleans and associates
served as trainers at the First Responder’s Training, sponsored by
the St. Louis Metropolitan Hospital Council Sexual Assault Committee
and St. Anthony’s Medical Center.
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to recognize and celebrate
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