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September 2016 Community Education E-bulletin

8/31/2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of Hope House's Community Education E-bulletin!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. New Support Group in Mauston
2. Join Our Team of Volunteers
3. "Suppporting Families Affected by Violence" Luncheon
4. Domestic Violence Awareness Month
5. Hope House Donation Needs
6. 2016 Rio Olympics
7. Sexual Assault
8. Domestic Violence

9. Children and Youth
10. Human Trafficking
11. Miscellaneous News
12. Local News
13. Parents' and Youth Service Providers' Section
14. Faith Communities' Section
15. Resources

New Support Group Starting in Mauston
Has domestic or sexual abuse touched your life in some way? Do you seek connections with supportive individuals who have similar life experiences as you? Hope House is starting a new support group at the Mile Bluff Medical Center, 2nd Floor Hess Conference Room, in Mauston. Group sessions will take place on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month from 6-7 pm. For more information, please contact Katie Fluger, Outreach Advocate, at 608-356-9123.

Please Join Our Team of Volunteers!
As seen pictured above, Carter is one of our volunteers who worked at our front desk once a week over the summer. Hope House’s most needed volunteers are ones like Carter who can work a minimum of one 4-hour shift between M-F 8 am and 4:30 pm and answer the phone, let people in and out of our secure facility, and accept donations. If interested in volunteering or interning at Hope House, please call 608-356-9123 or click here for more information.

Supporting Families Affected by Violence: A Community Resources Luncheon
Join us on October 11 from 11:30 am-1 pm at Trappers Turn in Wisconsin Dells to learn about resources available to families experiencing domestic violence and sexual assault:

Meet service providers
Learn more about critical resources
Find out how you can connect people in need to the right resources and
Enjoy lunch and networking.

We hope you will join us for lunch and will walk away with a richer range of resources to help the families you serve. Please order your ticket/register by clicking here. When you land on this page, click on the green TICKETS button and reserve your spot by September 30th to ensure a place at the October Luncheon. We look forward to seeing you there! Lunch will be provided and includes a clubhouse sandwich and pub chips.

Be sure to check out other Hope House events under our Upcoming Events page.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is quickly approaching, and we're working with community partners to create radio PSAs, displays, and posters for our communities for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). We're also asking community members to wear purple on October 20 for #PurpleThursday as part of the National Network to End Domestic Violence's National Week of Action. Click here for more information.

Stay tuned to our Upcoming Events page for DVAM updates.

Hope House Donation Needs
Monetary donations are most needed. Individuals have the option of donating online. Please note that a portion of your online donation will go towards PayPal fees. Donations can be mailed to Hope House, P.O. Box 557, Baraboo, WI 53913. We also appreciate gas cards, gift cards (Walmart, Kwik Trip, Walgreens, Kohl’s), taxi vouchers from Baraboo Taxi, and used cell phones, iPods and iPads. Please note that we are not accepting stuffed animals/plush toys, used toys, clothes (except for new sweatshirts and sweatpants), shoes, used books, furniture, TVs, bar soap, hats, scarves or travel-size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, or body wash. Current needs include

Bathrooms: Liquid hand soap, Full-size bottles of shampoo and body wash and shaving cream, Toilet bowl cleaner, Toilet paper, Deodorant, Disposable razors, Small garbage cans with bags, Nail clippers, Cleaning supplies such as Lysol disinfecting spray, Windex, and floor cleaner, Clorox wipes, Hairspray, Bleach, Bathroom rugs
Kitchen: Coffee, Paper towels, Ziploc bags, Strainer/Colander, Silverware, Tupperware, Dishwasher soap, 13-Gallon garbage bags, Brush for cleaning bottles, Sip cups, Saran wrap, Aluminum foil
Food and Beverages: Cereal, Fruit juice, Meat, Fresh fruit and vegetables, Yogurt, Cheese, Canned soup, Snack items (crackers, granola bars, etc.), Eggs, Milk, Coffee
Laundry: Laundry detergent
Clothing for Women and Kids: New socks, New women’s underwear, New medium-large size pajamas, New sweatshirts and sweatpants,
Misc: Alarm clock, D batteries, Swiffer mop, New pillows, New full-sized fitted white sheets, Diapers (especially sizes 4-6) and pull-ups, Journals, Vacuum, Double stroller, Baby wipes, Band-Aids, Pocket-sized calendars, Baby bottles, Umbrellas, Exercise balls, Relaxation CDs, Baby thermometer, CD players, Regular light bulbs

Special Note about Travel-Size Items: We encourage those looking to donate travel-size items to donate them to the Backpack Project. The Backpack Project strives to provide Baraboo School District students who are financially challenged to enter the school doors on the first day ‘just like everyone else’ and to show these children the community supports and encourages them to learn and do their best. If interested in donating towards this project, please contact Becky Hovde at 608-963-8230 or hivebiz@centurytel.net.

News
2016 Rio Olympics

Dear Olympic Media: Do Better by Women Athletes: “I want you to remember that your work matters. Your words matter. Your editorial choices matter. Because my daughter is watching. My nephew is watching. Young people all over the country are watching. And when they see and hear that, even after a woman wins an Olympic medal, she is really just another famous person’s wife, they are learning about gender roles. When they see Michael Phelps receive medal after medal on a podium and they don’t see Simone Manuel live, standing on a podium, they are learning that women don’t matter as much, that their time in the moment of glory can wait, that their achievements are not as great”…Read more
Top 10 Most Sexist Things To Occur At The 2016 Rio Olympics So Far: “Nothing like the Olympics to remind the world how a woman can’t accomplish anything without either being compared to a man who does the same thing, being labeled as a ‘wife’ or ‘mother’ above anything else, or being blatantly patronized on national television”…Read more
An Olympic Gold Medalist Opens Up About Her Domestic Abuse: “‘He was my first love. I loved him. Even today, I am not telling my story to bash him. That’s not my goal. My goal is to raise awareness. Be careful when you ask a victim, 'Why don’t you just leave?' As a victim, you still want to protect your partner. And the more others try to bash them, the more you cling to them…I never attempted to fight back at all — I saw that as disrespectful. I just attempted to protect myself by holding my hands up...It was just a situation I had to get through. In my mind, if I didn’t fight back, it would be over sooner’”…Read more

Kayla Harrison Won Judo Gold for the USA. For Sexual Abuse Victims, Her Triumph Is Twofold: “For these women and other survivors of sexual abuse, 26-year-old judoka Kayla Harrison provides a glimmer of hope. The Olympic gold medalist won two national judo championships by age 15, all while training in Ohio under Daniel Doyle, a coach who sexually abused her from the time she was 13…Harrison is now a motivational speaker with a line of workout clothes branded with the word 'fearless.' Her Fearless Foundation is designing a program to help sexual-abuse survivors find healing and strength through judo practice”…Read more
A Blind Eye to Sex Abuse: How USA Gymnastics Failed to Report Cases: “Top executives at one of America’s most prominent Olympic organizations failed to alert authorities to many allegations of sexual abuse by coaches — relying on a policy that enabled predators to abuse gymnasts long after USA Gymnastics had received warnings”…Read more

Sexual Assault

Victim in New Hampshire Prep School ‘Senior Salute’ Case Speaks Out: “A female student at an elite prep school in New Hampshire who accused a male senior of rape in 2014 only for him to be convicted of misdemeanor charges revealed her identity on Tuesday in an interview with NBC, saying she hoped to support other victims by discussing the difficulties she has faced, including being shunned when she returned to the school...‘It’s been two years now since the whole ordeal, and I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and make sure other people, other girls and boys, don’t need to be ashamed, either,’”…Read more
Some Women Won’t ‘Ever Again’ Report a Rape in Baltimore: “Baltimore officers sometimes humiliated women who tried to report sexual assault, often failed to gather basic evidence, and disregarded some complaints filed by prostitutes. Some officers blamed victims or discouraged them from identifying their assailants, asking questions like, ‘Why are you messing that guy’s life up?’ And the culture seemed to extend to prosecutors, investigators found. In one email exchange, a prosecutor referred to a woman who had reported a sexual assault as a ‘conniving little whore’”…Read more…Read related article $1M Pledged to Help Baltimore Victims After Scathing Report and And People Ask Why Rape Victims Don’t Report To Police
UC Sexual Assault Victim: 'My life has been ruined': “In conclusion, the rapist CHOSE to ruin his life. But like the sexual assault itself, my life has been ruined without my consent”…Read more of the victim’s statement
No Prison For Colorado Student Who Raped Helpless Freshman: “Wilkerson, 22, convicted of sexual assault of a helpless victim and unlawful sexual contact, faced a possible prison sentence of four years to life for the March 2014 attack on the freshman woman. But a judge in Boulder, Colorado, on Wednesday sentenced him to two years on work release and 20 years’ probation”…Read more
18-Year-Old Athlete Charged With Rape Gets Probation So He Can Attend College: “If Becker meets the judge’s terms, the case will then be dismissed. Terms include staying drug and alcohol free, undergoing a sex offender evaluation and following any recommended treatment, staying away from the victims, and writing a letter of apology. Jail time would have been ‘appropriate and fair’ in the case, a spokesman for the Hampden District Attorney’s office told BuzzFeed News”…Read more
Asking for an Apology: “Students who say colleges have mishandled sexual assault complaints demand on social media that colleges #JustSaySorry. Colleges have long been hesitant to apologize, even when found to be at fault”…Read more
Judge In Stanford Sex Assault Case Will No Longer Hear Criminal Cases

Sexual Assault Survivors Shouldn’t Have to Leave the Hospital Wearing a Sheet: “What do they wear home from the hospital? If the facility doesn’t have a specialized sexual assault unit, it may not have clothing to provide—forcing them to leave in a hospital gown. Thankfully, activist organizations are stepping up to right this wrong”…Read more
Justice Isn’t Always Done for Child Sexual Abuse – I Know Firsthand: “If you look up his arrest record, it does show that he originally was charged with a felony for aggravated sexual battery. And his mug shot does turn up in an internet search. But he never was put on the sex offender registry, and he’s free to work with kids again…When Dodd told her school counselor about Youssefi, I hadn’t started taking gymnastics yet. If the prosecutor then had decided to charge Youssefi, maybe he never would have become my coach”…Read more
Stanford’s New Alcohol Policy Protects Campus Rapists: “It also echoes the June defense of Brock Turner, a Stanford freshman who blamed ‘party culture’ for his decision to sexual assault a fellow student and whose lenient sentence sent ripples of outrage across campus and the country. The policy does not apply to graduate students or staff events, insinuating that sexual assault is only a problem among younger students…Dauber said she thinks the ban on large bottles of alcohol on campus will actually put students in even more danger. ‘It’s going to drive it underground … and encourage this super quick consumption not in a public area,’”…Read more
Nate Parker and the Limits of Empathy: “‘The Birth of a Nation’ is being billed as an important movie — something we must see, a story that demands to be heard. I have not yet seen the movie, and now I won’t. Just as I cannot compartmentalize the various markers of my identity, I cannot value a movie, no matter how good or ‘important’ it might be, over the dignity of a woman whose story should be seen as just as important, a woman who is no longer alive to speak for herself, or benefit from any measure of justice. No amount of empathy could make that possible”…Read more

Domestic Violence

A 27-Year Police Veteran on Why Domestic Violence Calls Pose the Greatest Danger for Cops: “Domestic violence is about one person’s desire to control another. The police officer who arrives at the scene is taking away some of that control…And if you’re a police officer, you need to understand why victims stay, why they may not tell the same story later on that they initially told you…Victims may lie, they may go back to the person, but it doesn’t mean they’re liars. It doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate what you did. It just means they’re doing what they think is best for them in that moment”…Read more
Domestic Violence is a Workplace Issue: “What can you do to make sure your workplace is a safe space for those who are victims or survivors? You can be flexible, for starters. If you suspect or are certain that someone you work with is a victim of DV or IPV, cut them some slack. Even if they don't want to admit it themselves (it took me much longer than it should have to admit what was happening and even more time to work out the logistics of leaving). Give them time off if they need it, whether it's to nurse injuries or to go to court or to search for a shelter or a new apartment. You also can accommodate requests for varied working hours, or a different office space, or a new phone number or email address. You can make sure your security is tight so that an abuser can't get to them physically or virtually. And you can enshrine these policies in your code of conduct or your official workplace rules”…Read more
Lawyers Use Victim-Blaming Language in Domestic Violence Cases, Says Report: “The team was established in 2010 to review domestic-violence-related deaths and to make recommendations about how to prevent or reduce the likelihood of such deaths by improving the way they are examined in the judicial system. Their report found in some of the cases reviewed judicial staff ‘used mutualising language such as ‘volatile relationship’ or ‘stormy relationship’ to describe cases where a domestic violence abuser had a long history of using violence against the victim’. ‘Variations of this terminology were evident in a number of cases, and served to minimise perpetrator accountability for violent behaviours,’”…Read more
Video of Silicon Valley Mogul Kicking His Girlfriend 117 Times Could Send Him to Jail: “In a brilliant move, the district attorney’s office asked the judge if the video from the first case could be admitted to establish that the second assault was essentially a repeat offense. The judge ruled that it could. The prosecution also had a recording of the 911 call made by the second girlfriend. That and the video convinced the judge, who ruled on July 22 that Chahal had indeed violated his probation. The sentencing is set for Aug. 12, three years and one week after Chahal assaulted his first girlfriend”…Read more…Read related article: Tech Mogul Who Allegedly Hit and Kicked His Girlfriend 117 Times Sentenced to One Year in Prison

This Popular Female Wrestler Is Shattering The Silence Around The Domestic Abuse She Endured: “‘Women athletes, CEOs, those in power, we feel this pressure to be a role model to other women, to be strong, that we don’t want to let them know our struggle. I didn’t want to be known as a ‘victim.’ I was also trying to get on TV, so if I tell my story, would this mess up my career?’ And so she stayed quiet for a long time. But behind closed doors, Jade says the abuse was escalating”…Read more
Why We Should Be Talking More About Lindsay Lohan's Abuse Allegations: “Silence surrounding the topic of domestic abuse is not limited to the media. Women often choose to stay silent about the trauma they suffer at home for fear that speaking out will only make things worse. They fear they will be evicted from their homes, that they won't be believed, or that the abuse will turn fatal. Many women — Lohan even touched on this in her interview with The Daily Mail —believe that admitting they have an abusive partner is a reflection on their own character”…Read more
Amy Schumer Reveals Disturbing Extent of Abuse in New Memoir: “I was sure he was going to kill me”
Domestic Abuse Victims Suffer the Same Brain Injuries As Football Players: “And injuries from domestic abuse can result in brain damage in 60 percent of survivors, according to research published in the journal Family & Community Health. Researchers frequently choose to study football players or veterans over domestic abuse survivors; not knowing the lasting effects of concussions on survivors can make them more vulnerable to conditions like degenerative brain disease down the line”…Read more
The Hidden Impact Of Domestic Violence On The Gender Wage Gap: “The Power of Parity: Advancing Women’s Equality in the United States, finds that closing the wage gap could add up to $4.3 trillion annually to the GDP by 2025. But violence against women is one of the six factors impacting pay equity in the United States”…Read more

Children and Youth

Lesbian, Gay and Bi High School Students Face Staggering Amount of Violence: “LGB students are more likely to experience being physically forced to have sex (18% LGB vs. 5% heterosexual), sexual dating violence (23% LGB vs. 9% heterosexual), physical dating violence (18% LGB vs. 8% heterosexual) or being bullied at school or online (34% LGB vs. 19% heterosexual in school, 28% LGB vs. 14% heterosexual online)”…Read more…Read CDC Report

Human Trafficking

Demand Fuels Sex Trafficking along I-41: “‘It's just a matter of you're shuffled around so much and if you…have a trafficker that's using drugs and keeping you drugged up, you're not going to be orientated to your environment or where you're at,’ said Liz Hoffman, a sexual assault nurse at Aurora and a survivor of sex trafficking. ‘You're sent all over the place, to wherever the money is at.’ Moving around helps pimps evade law enforcement, and they may consider customers to be more affluent in the Fox Valley”…Read more…Read related article: State Leaders Unveil Poster Aimed at Raising Awareness about Human Trafficking
Schimel: Human Trafficking Tough Fight for State: “‘And this is going to be one of our toughest social services and criminal justice challenges.’ He said part of the problem is that traffickers do such extensive emotional manipulation of their victims. ‘Our biggest challenge is just getting victims to agree to be rescued,’ Schimel said. His comments come as City of Milwaukee officials are calling for more help addressing Milwaukee's human trafficking problems”…Read more
Homeless Women Are Being Exploited for Sex in Return for Shelter: “‘Homelessness and violence against women are inextricably linked,’ explains Maeve McGoldrick of the homeless charity Crisis. 2011 figures show 28 percent of homeless women have formed an unwanted sexual partnership, and 20 percent have engaged in sex work to get a roof over their heads. And many women become homeless in the first place as a result of sexual or domestic violence”…Read more

Miscellaneous News

End Abuse Partners with Wisconsin Air National Guard: “To better address violence against women in the military, the Wisconsin Air National Guard has recently stepped up to increase the number of victim advocates within its ranks. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been a partner in this effort by providing expert training to these advocates as they learn to give emergency counseling, referrals, information and on-going support when a member of the Guard is assaulted”…Read more
Comment Sections Are Cesspools Of Rape Culture, Research Finds: “One-fourth of all online comments at the end of news articles about sexual assault and rape include victim-blaming statements, new research out of the University of Southern California shows. The study examined 52 articles and found that only one did not contain comments offering support for the accused perpetrator”…Read more
WHO Releases New Infographic on Elder Abuse: “WHO is launching a new infographic on the issue which highlights the magnitude of the problem and known prevention strategies”…View the infographic here

7 #RelationshipGoals You Should Really Want: Check out this Futures Without Violence blog post that shows what healthy relationships look like.

Local News

Juan Walker, 32, of Baraboo, charged with second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim…Read more
Zacharie Bauer, 30, of Oxford, charged with repeated sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl…Read more
Brett Klawitter, 39, of North Freedom, who previously worked as a clinical substance abuse counselor for St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo, will serve 30 days in jail and two years on probation as part of a plea deal for sexually exploiting a patient…Read more
Raul Reynosa, 26, of Baraboo, arrested for striking a woman in the face several times with a loaded gun…Read more
Robert Frier, 59, who sexually assaulted two children in 1986 has been released from prison and will be living in the Baraboo area…Read more

Parents' and Youth Service Providers' Section

Get KnowBullying, the Free App from SAMHSA that Can Prevent Bullying: The app features include “Conversation Starters: Start easy, meaningful conversations with your children. Tips: Learn strategies to prevent bullying for ages 3—6, 7—13, and teens. Warning Signs: Recognize if your child is engaging in bullying, being bullied, or witnessing bullying. Reminders: Talk with your child when the time feels right: a quiet moment on the way to school or a game, during dinner, or relaxing outside. Social Media: Share successful strategies and useful advice via Facebook, Twitter, email, and text messages. Section for Educators: Prevent bullying in the classroom and support children who are being bullied”…Learn more
Everyday Magic: 16 Ways Adults Can Support Children Exposed to Violence and Trauma: Futures Without Violence’s “policy paper offers sixteen ways that adults can support children exposed to violence and trauma to heal and grow. These recommendations are for advocates, educators, and health care providers to help improve their response to children who have experienced violence or trauma”…Check out the guide here
Resources to Help Students Cope with Trauma: “We imagine that as school-based health professionals, you’re grappling with how to have difficult—but necessary—conversations about race, structural oppression, and inequity with your young patients. We reached out to our partners to assemble resources to lend you a hand in this endeavor”…Read more
New Article Outlines How School Nurses Can Help Teens Experiencing Digital Dating Abuse: ’Most importantly, school nurses can engage in conversations with students about digital dating abuse, safe Internet use and healthy relationships, letting students know that they can come to them if they encounter online or offline dating violence’”…Read more

Unity Day Together Against Bullying: On October 19, PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center invites you to wear orange as a "message of support, hope, and unity to show that we are together against bullying and united for kindness, acceptance and inclusion”…Learn more
Relationship Goals or Relationship No’s?: “I know this movie is fictional and it has a lot of extreme characters and situations. But, as we’ve talked about before, the messages we get from movies, music, television and ads can influence how we think and feel about our relationships. The relationship between Harley and the Joker may be romanticized in Suicide Squad, but abuse and manipulation are not #relationshipgoals. We think it’s important to think hard about the messages we’re getting and whether they’re healthy for us or not”…Read more
NetSmartz's New Elementary School Presentations: NetSmartz has released brand new interactive presentations for students in grades K-2 and 3-5, which allow presenters to engage more directly with students around important digital safety topics. Download them for free here.
Audrie & Daisy: New Film on Netflix on Sept 23: “Audrie & Daisy tells the story of two teenage girls who went to parties, drank alcohol, passed out, and were sexually assaulted by guys they thought were their friends. In the aftermath, both girls discovered that the crimes were documented on cell phones. Video and pictures were passed around. Their lives were changed forever.” “Check back for updates about our community outreach, coming soon. We are partnering with Futures Without Violence, SafeBAE, PAVE, Know Your IX, Women, Action, Media!, and The Audrie Pott Foundation to bring the film and the issues it addresses to communities across the country"...Learn more and watch the trailer here
Mix It Up Day on October 25: "A national campaign launched by Teaching Tolerance in 2002, Mix It Up at Lunch Day encourages students to identify, question and cross social boundaries. And we ask schools to participate on the last Tuesday in October each school year! In our surveys, students have identified the cafeteria as the place where divisions are most clearly drawn. So for just a day, we ask students to move out of their comfort zones and connect with someone new over lunch. It’s a simple act with profound implications. Studies have shown that interactions across group lines can help reduce prejudice. When students interact with those who are different from them, biases and misperceptions can fall away"...Read more

Faith Communities' Section
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM): Check out Faith Trust Institute’s website for a list of resources, webinars, articles, and more related to Domestic Violence Awareness Month for faith communities.

Resources
Futures Without Violence’s LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence Materials: “The Caring Relationships, Healthy You safety cards and poster are survivor-centered tools that are useful conversation starters for health care providers who are doing universal education around healthy relationships and assessing for intimate partner violence. Because queer and trans people experience violence at similar, and in some instances higher, rates as heterosexual people, it is critical that health care and other providers ensure that their practice is culturally inclusive for queer and trans people and that they are talking to all of their patients about the effects that intimate partner violence can have on health”…Read more

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August 2016 Community Education E-bulletin

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Welcome to the August 2016 edition of Hope House's Community Education E-bulletin!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Seeking CASA Volunteers
2. Hope House Donation Needs
3. Sexual Assault
4. Domestic Violence
5. Children and Youth

6. #BlackLivesMatter
7. Miscellaneous News
8. Local News
9. Parents' & Youth Service Providers' Section
10. Faith Communities' Section

Seeking CASA Volunteers
Hope House is excited to announce that in conjunction with Sauk County, we are establishing a new CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) program to serve abused and neglected children and youth of Sauk County. Sauk County CASA is the voice for abused and neglected children and youth in Sauk County, seeking to protect and ensure them safe, permanent homes.

Often referred to as the “eyes and ears of the court,” CASA Volunteers are assigned by judges to advocate exclusively on behalf of a single child or sibling group. CASAs conduct face-to-face visits with their child (or children), make independent, objective observations about the child’s safety and well-being, and submit a written summary report to the appointing judge each month to help that judge make decisions about the child’s future. Most importantly, CASA Volunteers are often the only consistent adult presence in the lives of abused and neglected children.

Hope House is currently screening and recruiting everyday men and women from the community to advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children until the court case is closed, and they have found safe and permanent homes. Training will begin in the fall, and volunteers will be sworn in by the end of the year. Become a CASA. The Voice for a Child. For more information visit saukcountycasa.org or contact Mary Jo Elert, 608-356-9123 | mjelert@hopehousescw.org.

Bathrooms: Liquid hand soap, Full-size bottles of shampoo and body wash, Toilet bowl cleaner, Toilet paper, Deodorant, Disposable razors, Body spray and makeup, Small garbage cans with bags, Nail clippers, Cleaning supplies such as Lysol disinfecting spray, Windex, and floor cleaner, Clorox wipes, Hairspray, Bleach, Bathroom rugs
Kitchen: Coffee, Paper towels, Ziploc bags, Strainer/Colander, Silverware, Tupperware, Dishwasher soap, 13-Gallon garbage bags, Brush for cleaning bottles, Sip cups, Saran wrap, Aluminum foil
Food and Beverages: Cereal, Fruit juice, Meat, Fresh fruit and vegetables, Yogurt, Cheese, Canned soup, Snack items (crackers, granola bars, etc.), Milk
Laundry: Laundry detergent
Clothing for Women and Kids: New socks, New women’s underwear, New medium-large size pajamas, New sweatshirts and sweatpants
Misc: New pillows, New full-sized fitted white sheets, Diapers (especially sizes 4-6) and pull-ups, Journals, Vacuum, Double stroller, Baby wipes, Band-Aids, Pocket-sized calendars, Baby bottles, Umbrellas, Hangers, Exercise balls, Yoga/exercise DVDs, Relaxation CDs, Baby thermometer, CD players, Regular light bulbs

News
Sexual Assault

Football Player, Co-Worker Intervene in Alleged Rape Behind Bar: “Then, Garcia recalled what he had learned from a Gainesville prosecutor who spoke to the UF football team about sexual assault. ‘I distinctly remember him saying if a woman is drugged or intoxicated then she cannot give consent and therefore you cannot have any sexual relations with her,’ Garcia told CNN. The girl's body was pretty much limp so I knew I had to step in and do something’”…Read more
Texas Rape Victim Was Jailed for Fear She Would Not Testify, Lawsuit Says: “The decision raises questions about the treatment of people with mental health disorders in the Texas justice system and about the wisdom of jailing someone already victimized and traumatized by a suspect the district attorney called ‘a serial rapist’...Advocates for sexual assault survivors said they feared that the Texas case could have a chilling effect on other victims’ willingness to speak up”…Read more
Bars Are Learning How To Stop Sexual Assault, And The NFL Is Helping: “The bartenders checked with the woman while he was in the bathroom. She said she ‘was not really interested but didn’t know how to get out of the situation,’ according to the manager. The staff helped her go out the back door and get a cab before he came back. She called later to thank them…The organization had trained the ChurchKey bartenders through their Safe Bars program”…Read more
Truckers Take The Wheel In Effort To Halt Sex Trafficking: “TAT teaches drivers to try to spot sullen, hopeless-looking children, teens and young adults. Perhaps they're wearing revealing clothing, or maybe have tattoos like bar codes or men's names that might indicate ownership. The group also promotes a hotline to report trafficking…Trucking companies and law enforcement are enthusiastically on board, helping to reach nearly 250,000 drivers, whose calls to the hotline have freed hundreds of trafficking victims”…Read more
Government Reminds Colleges That They’re Responsible for Rapes at Frats: “In 2014, the Department of Education sent out a reminder, in which it explicitly mentioned off-campus fraternities as places that are ‘clearly covered’ under Title IX...Last year, a study into universities’ reporting practices found that the majority of schools also failed to disclose off-campus sexual assaults—even though they’re legally required to attempt to work with law enforcement to obtain that data”…Read more

Read The Vanderbilt Gang Rape Survivor’s Letter To Her Attackers: “What happened to me that night has been compounded by the live-streaming, tweeting, and international dissemination of every detail of how I was degraded and humiliated for all posterity. In this age of technology, anyone I ever meet in my personal or professional life can learn I am a rape victim and the details of the case before I’ve even fully introduced myself to them”…Read more”…Read more…Read related article: Here’s The Awful Reality Of Being A Rape Victim In Criminal Trials
Report on Physician Sexual Abuse Stirs Alarm: “A yearlong investigation conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, published last week, uncovered thousands of cases of physician sexual abuse spread across every state in America…‘The sad reality is, whenever there's a difference in power and authority, some people exploit that, and in our culture, we venerate doctors -- we're not trained to question them’”…Read more
New Court Documents Suggest Others at Penn State Knew of Jerry Sandusky Abuse: “The allegations suggest that Paterno may have been made aware of Sandusky’s actions far earlier than has previously been reported, and that knowledge of Sandusky’s behavior may have been far more widespread among the Penn State football staff than previously known”…Read more
High Court Fractures on Issue Involving Sex Assault Victims: “Sexual assault victims in Wisconsin can still be barred from testifying against their accused assailants if they refuse to let a judge see their mental health treatment records, after the state Supreme Court divided three ways on the issue Wednesday. It took the court 135 pages to reach its virtual nondecision, which means the prior ruling of the Court of Appeals, upholding the current law, stands”…Read more

Domestic Violence

[WI] Advocates Alarmed as Domestic Violence Death Toll Reaches New High in First Half of 2016: “End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin is calling attention to the disturbing number of domestic violence homicides that occurred during the first six months of this year. The agency says the preliminary count of domestic violence-related deaths for the first half of 2016, 39 deaths, is almost 70-percent higher than average, and it represents a one-third increase over the previous high, which occurred from January to June of 2009”…Read more
Why Is It So Hard to Recognize Domestic Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships?: “Beyond individual isolation, the LGBTQ community can often feel cut off from mainstream society, putting solidarity above all else and making it harder to seek help. ‘When you are a member of a community that is already harshly judged and oppressed, there is a feeling of disloyalty’ when speaking about problems, Krukiel says. Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer people feel a pressure to have their relationships appear perfect so as to avoid criticism from those outside the community”…Read more

Background Checks Miss 7% of Gun Buyers with Domestic Violence Records, Protective Orders: “While 89,000 sales were blocked, nearly 6,800 were cleared despite the buyer’s record, said the Government Accountability Office, partly blaming the complexities of domestic violence cases in determining whether they rise to the level that would land someone on the no-buy list”…Read more
What Mass Killers Really Have in Common: “Early reports suggest that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove a rented truck through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers on Thursday night, killing more than 80 including at least ten children, may not have been devout, but he did have a criminal record of domestic violence”…Read more
‘Face Down’ Turns 10: Why the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s Domestic-Abuse Anthem Still Resonates: “Even so, ‘Face Down’ is much more than a hook-heavy relic from a previous era of alt-rock: It’s a song that details the experience of domestic abuse in a way that hadn’t really happened in pop-punk before 2006 — and still doesn’t happen nearly enough a decade later”…Read more

Children and Youth

Young and Trapped: Homeless Youth and Young Adults Ensnared in Human Sex Trafficking: “The men let the girls stay in their hotel room and give them cash, food and clothes, Krajcinovic said. Soon, they want sex for their provisions. Then, they persuade the girls to have sex with others for cash and initially let them keep the money. After a few tricks, the men demand the money. There are threats and beatings. The girls, she said, are brainwashed, trapped. ‘They're doing this to survive and don't know how to get out of it’”…Read more
Experts Say Schools Must Do More to Address Early Signs of Sexual Harassment: “A new California law requiring 7th- through 12th-grade students to be educated about sexual harassment and assault will enter its first full year of implementation this fall, and experts and advocates say schools have the opportunity to address troubling attitudes about gender and power that they say can contribute to sexual harassment and even assaults on college campuses”…Read more
To Stop Sexual Assault in the Juvenile System, Close Youth Prisons: “The BJS report shows that higher sexual victimization rates tend to be concentrated in youth prisons and juvenile detention facilities, as compared to other facilities such as group homes. Especially troubling is that youth facilities holding 25 or more youths report much higher rates of sexual misconduct by staff members…By investing in community-based alternatives to incarceration and dismantling the youth prison approach to juvenile justice, we can keep youths and communities safe”…Read more

Closing the Gaps in Sexual Education for People with Disabilities: “‘They see only the deafness and forget that there is a young person there too,’ said Kvitvaer who works on a special project aimed at improving sexual education in sign language and is herself deaf. Parents and caregivers can forget that young people with disabilities also have questions about their bodies and thinks about sex, just like any other teenager…‘Young people with disabilities are at higher risk of experiencing sexual violence and face greater barriers when accessing sexual and reproductive health services and education’”…Read more
The CDC and WHO are Teaming up to End the ‘Contagious Disease’ of Child Violence: “On Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced the first coordinated plan to end violence against children. It includes a seven-point strategy that consists of many practical measures, such as implementing and enforcing laws that limit young people's access to firearms; changing beliefs and values around gender roles, which would presumably target countries where girls have fewer rights and less freedom; creating safe environments by doing things like improving housing; increasing parent and caregiver support; strengthening economies; shoring up support services such as treatment programs for juvenile offenders; and educating children in life and social skills”…Read more

#BlackLivesMatter

What Police Violence & Rape Culture Have In Common: “As a black woman, it is both interesting and horrific how much the victim blaming of murdered black people parallels the victim blaming of female rape victims. Some rhetoric surrounding the extrajudicial murder of black men, women, and children essentially says that if they had been more respectful, dressed better, or were less intimidating, they would not have been killed…Rape culture says that victims were ‘asking’ to be raped if they wore short skirts. The media says that black people were asking to be murdered if we wore hoodies. Alcohol is to blame for a victim being raped, but it excuses their rapist if they were also drinking. Black victims are expected to have superhuman self-control when screamed at with a gun in our faces, and mind-reading abilities to know whether a cop finds us particularly dangerous. The police who kill us can get by with the excuse of not being well-trained enough, or saying that they didn't know what our intentions were”…Read more
WCSAP Responds: Why Not #AllLivesMatter?: “WCSAP continues to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement because its function is to remind us that black lives matter—that they are important. It is not an exclusionary statement. It does not mean that other lives matter less. It is about making black lives equal in how they matter to the world. It is about centering a community that is experiencing great loss and great injustice. In essence it is saying ‘black lives matter, too.’ Additionally, #BlackLivesMatter is often used as not only a call for justice but as a way to mourn those in the black community that have been killed. It is not helpful to tell those in mourning that their feelings of fear and grief are irrelevant because of others’ personal experiences of loss. For example, you would not attend the funeral of a friend’s grandmother and then tell your friend ‘all deaths matter’”…Read more

Demanding Justice #BlackLivesMatter: “We cannot achieve safety for all when our neighbors are being killed in the streets by those who have sworn to serve and protect. How can a victim of domestic violence reach out to the police for help and safety from an abuser when the headlines consistently report the deaths of people of color at the hands of law enforcement officers?”…Read more

Miscellaneous News

Why Cleaning a Hotel Room Makes You a Target for Sexual Harassment: “Cleaners can be especially susceptible to sexual abuse on the job. They’re often isolated, working in hotel rooms by themselves. And they’re often low-wage immigrant workers, worried about the repercussions of speaking up. These are conditions we’ve previously detailed for female farmworkers and night-shift janitors”…Read more
NYC Mayor Signs Free Tampons For Schools, Jails, Shelters Into Law
Street Harassment of Women Just Became a Hate Crime in this County: “A community in central England has become the first in the country to label misogyny a hate crime. Street harassment, unwanted sexual advances, physical or verbal assault, and using mobile devices to send unwanted messages or take photographs without consent are all examples of a hate crime, Nottinghamshire police announced”…Read more

Local News

Walter Cline, 59, of Baraboo, convicted in 1994 of sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman 14 times over a three-year period, will be released from prison this month…Read more
Alexander Aaron Raymond, 24, of Baraboo sent threatening text messages to an ex-girlfriend and then went to her house, charged with battery, false imprisonment, and disorderly conduct…Read more

Parents' and Youth Service Providers' Section

Insights from the Hotline Room: Talking to Teens: “RAINN support specialists who staff the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline (online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) are trained to respond to teens who are looking for support following sexual assault. They’ve shared the following tips, phrases, and small actions that parents and caretakers can take when working with teens who may have experienced sexual assault”…Read more
No Means No When Boys Say It Too: “Women gravitate toward him, tousling his hair and kissing his cheeks and claiming what a smart and handsome boy he is. And while he’s tolerant—to a point—I have seen the look of panic in his eyes when an adult he doesn’t know well touches him”…Read more
Training Opportunity: Mental Health & Behavior Summit: On September 19-20, 2016 at the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells is this 2 day conference, which provides strategies and techniques to assist with behavior management and mental health needs in the school setting. The event also creates opportunities for educators to network and collaborate around the behavioral and mental health needs of their students. To learn more, click here.

Faith Communities' Section

Faith Trust Institute's Upcoming Free Webinars include Medical Chaplaincy: Serving the Needs of Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence, Pastoral Care Issues: Addressing the End-of-Life Needs of Survivors of Sexual Assault / Domestic Violence, and Creating a Trauma-Informed Faith Community. To learn more and to register, click here.
Training Opportunity: Engaging Men of Faith in Domestic Violence Prevention: "Join A CALL TO MEN for a FREE one-day conference designed to engage men of faith in domestic violence prevention. Conference topics include: Law Enforcement and Clergy: Working Together in Domestic Violence Prevention, The Experience of Young Women and Girls, The Role of Men’s and Women’s Ministries in Domestic Violence Prevention, Addressing LGBTQ and Gender Non-Conforming Communities within the Church, Faith Leaders: Developing and Implementing Prevention Policies, and Working with Young Men and Boys. The conference will take place on October 14 in North Carolina. For more information, click here.

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