Special Report: Partners and Peers - Sexual and Dating Violence Among NYC Youth : New York Teens Victimized at Rate Nearly Twice National Average The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault and Columbia University Center for Youth Violence Prevention just released results from a three-year survey on sexual and dating violence among New York City High School students. Information for the study was based on anonymous surveys of New York City high school students who were asked about their personal experience with sexual and dating violence. [Read more.] |
Meeting the Clinical Service Needs of NYC’s Sexual Violence Survivors:Looking at Research & AdvocacyThis forum examined how to map and measure the mental health services available to survivors of sexual violence in NYC. The practice component of this forum included a team of experts with experience instituting screening for sexual and intimate partner violence protocols that spoke about their experience and reflected on New York City’s capacity issues. (December 11, 2006)The Critical Importance of a Resource GuidePresenters: Debi Fry, MA MPH and Tamara Pollak, RN MPH, NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault.This presentation reviews what we do and don’t know about the mental health services available to sexual violence survivors in New York City. It focuses on the necessity of mapping resources, cultivating resources, and ensuring that providers in the many service sectors accessed by survivors have the capacity to address the health impact of sexual violence or make reliable referrals . 
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Mapping and Measuring the Mental Health Services Available to Survivors of Sexual Violence in NYCPresenters: Graduate Students from the New School UniversityA group of students pursuing coursework at the New School University’s Graduate Program of International Affairs partnered with the Alliance to pilot a survey that maps and measures the mental health resources available to survivors of sexual violence in New York City. The survey aimed to systematically catalogue the services offered by various rape crisis programs in New York City and to identify the training needs providers in community based mental health organizations have around sexual violence. In this presentation, graduate students from the New Schools presented on 1) their experience conducting this survey 2) their findings from the pilot project and 3) their recommendations for completing this citywide assessment.
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If you build it ... will they come?Panel presentation with Sarah Blust, MSW,MPH, Medical and Health Research Association of New York City, Inc (MHRA), Leslie Rottenberg, CSW, Planned Parenthood NYC and Lynne Stevens, CSW, BCD, Responding to Violence Against Women Program moderated by Leslie Davidson, MD, Columbia University Center for Youth Violence PreventionIncreasingly, NYC health providers are recognizing the importance of universally screening women and children for histories of intimate partner and sexual violence. However, many are reluctant to initiate broad-based screening without having an adequate referral system in place for patients who answer “Yes. I am experiencing sexual violence.” How do we determine if NYC has adequate mental health resources to initiate a universal screening process? Can these two systems be scaled-up simultaneously? Is it irresponsible to start screening before we have enough services in place, or does screening itself function as a beneficial intervention for women experiencing intimate partner or sexual violence? How do we balance our past experience with survivors not accessing referrals with our obligation to ensure that those who need services have access? In this presentation, a team of experts with experience instituting screening protocols spoke about their experience and reflect on New York City’s capacity issues.
MHRA’s Behavioral Risk Factor (BRF) Screening Program
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Universal IPV Screening at Planned Parenthood NYC
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Responding to VAW Program
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