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How puppets can stop vulnerable children from becoming sex offenders

Emily Dugan

October 16, 2015 |

The Independent |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

Be Safe uses tools like puppets to teach young children who are showing early signs of harmful sexual behavior how to control their sexual urges and what behavior is and isn’t appropriate. The goal is to intervene early to stop the behavior from developing into something more serious. So far, all but one child who graduated from Be Safe’s program has shown a reduction or total elimination of their behavior.

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We Know One Way To Stop Sexual Assault, But Students Aren't Doing It

Tyler Kingkade

September 23, 2015 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

A national survey showed that few college students intervene when witnessing a sexual assault. The school with the highest rate of student intervention was Dartmouth College, where students receive bystander prevention training.

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It's More Than a Church Parking Lot. It's a Safe Zone for Homeless Women and Families

J. Gabriel Ware

September 15, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Kirkland, Washington

Homeless individuals who sleep in their car are often ticketed or woken in the middle of the night, it can also be an especially dangerous sleep setup for women. Lake Washington United Methodist Church started a Safe Parking Program that allows women to park overnight in their parking lot, use the bathroom and kitchen, and enjoy a sense of safety and community.

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Unique Program Delivers Emergency Care In Person To Native Victims Of Sexual Assault

Melodie Edwards

August 28, 2015 |

Wyoming Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

By some estimates, sexual assault on U.S. Indian reservations is the worst in the world with one in three Native women assaulted during their lifetime. But nine courageous women at Wind River Reservation are trying a totally new approach. They deliver emergency care in person.

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The University Of Texas Makes Major Investment To Address Deficits In Campus Sexual Assault Research

Tyler Kingkade

August 19, 2015 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

2014 was a year marked nationwide by activism and unprecedented federal attention to the issue of campus sexual assault. The University of Texas system is putting $1.7 million into a comprehensive, multi-year effort to combat sexual assault on campus.

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7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

Bernice Yeung

June 30, 2015 |

Reveal |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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Teaching women to fight today could stop rapes tomorrow

Tamara Straus

June 11, 2015 |

Quartz |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

“Empowerment self-defense” teaches women how to defend themselves against sexual assault, psychological awareness, and how to be verbally assertive. A study showed that women who took empowerment self defense classes saw a “46% reduction in completed rape and a 63% reduction in attempted sexual assault.”

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Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study

Erin Anderssen

June 10, 2015 |

The Globe and Mail |

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Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

In the debate over how to reduce sexual assault on university campuses, proposing self-defense classes for women is controversial. But, according to new landmark Canadian research, it works.

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College Rape Prevention Program Proves a Rare Success

Jan Hoffman

June 10, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

Sexual violence is a serious hazard on college campuses - by some estimates, one in five female students are raped, and women tend to be at the greatest risk during their first year on campus. But a program that trained first-year female college students at various Canadian colleges to avoid rape substantially lowered their risk of being sexually assaulted, a rare success against a problem that has been resistant to many prevention efforts.

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In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

Vivan Wang

April 13, 2015 |

Yale Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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