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Provides therapy, crisis services, and education to victims of sexual assault and teens through a range of services:

• Telephone crisis response

• Short-term counseling

• Responds to local hospital emergency rooms

• Legal advocacy

• Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality

• Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process.

• Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

• Workshops and Education: Offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Provides the following services:

• Community Education: Offers presentations and facilitated dialogs to community groups and individuals on the basics of domestic and/or sexual violence, signs, intervention and awareness. Participating groups have included faith-based groups, civic and service clubs, and social justice-oriented organizations.

• Community Events and Resource Fairs: Participates in numerous resource and wellness fairs throughout the metro area every year. Organizations can contact Alexandra House if they are organizing an event or fair and would like to have Alexandra House represented.

• Professional Trainings and Collaborations: Offers a variety of trainings tailored for various professional groups to respond to and prevent domestic and sexual violence

• Student and Youth Education: Provides a tailored learning experience for youth and students in grades 3rd and above about domestic or sexual abuse

Offers an array of services in-person and virtually:

• Adult assessment/psychological testing

• Individual and group therapy

• Prevention consultation on policies and procedures to reduce risk of sexual abuse of children

• Psycho-educational sexual prevention/diversion program

• Sexual abuse prevention workshops for teachers, parents, and youth-serving organizations

• Specialized sex offender treatment for adults

• Women's support group

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include:

• Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments

• Community education and professional training

• Confidentiality

• Crisis line

• Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc.

• Individual and group support

• Safety planning

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include:

• Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments

• Community education and professional training

• Confidentiality

• Crisis line

• Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc.

• Individual and group support

• Safety planning

Offers an array of services in-person and virtually:

• Adult assessment/psychological testing

• Individual and group therapy

• Prevention consultation on policies and procedures to reduce risk of sexual abuse of children

• Psycho-educational sexual prevention/diversion program

• Sexual abuse prevention workshops for teachers, parents, and youth-serving organizations

• Specialized sex offender treatment for adults

• Women's support group

Just Ask by Safe House Project (formerly Anti-Trafficking International) "Just Ask" provides evidence-based lessons for 6th-10th grade students with the tools and skills to recognize sexual violence, teen trafficking, and unhealthy relationships, as well as how to access resources when needed. Lessons are two 45-minute sessions but can be adapted as needed. Topics by grade level:

• 6th: Teen trafficking, abuse, and neglect

• 7th: Teen trafficking and online safety

• 8th: Trafficking, exploitation, and healthy relationships

• 9th: Sexual violence, exploitation, and sex trafficking

• 10th: Healthy relationships, exploitation, and sex trafficking

One Love Workshops "One Love's interactive skills-based workshops creates opportunities for participants to practice the language of healthy and unhealthy relationships, actively explore and express their ideas with peers, and to reflect on their experiences. One Love's workshops utilize relatable films that allow participants to explore the complicated dynamics of relationships." (joinonelove.org) Workshops are available for middle school through college audiences. Most workshops are about an hour. Coaching Boys Into Men by Futures Without Violence "FUTURES' Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program leverages the power of sports by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault. The CBIM curriculum consists of a series of coach-to-athlete trainings that illustrate ways to model respect and promote healthy relationships. The CBIM card series instructs coaches on how to incorporate themes associated with teamwork, integrity, fair play, and respect into their daily practice and routine." (futureswithoutviolence.org) Coaches attend a two-hour training clinic with Victim Services to learn the CBIM curriculum and then facilitate one 15-minute discussion with their athletes once a week throughout the season. Safe Dates by Hazelden Safe Dates helps young people recognize the difference between healthy, caring, and supportive relationships, and controlling, manipulative, and abusive dating relationships. Program incorporates updated facts and statistics about teen dating violence, scenarios that now reflect a more diverse population, and information regarding dating abuse via technology. This evidence-based curriculum gets young people thinking about:

• How they want to be treated by a dating partner

• How they want to treat a girlfriend or boyfriend

• What abusive dating relationships look like

• Why dating abuse happens and its causes and consequences

• How to tell if they are in an abusive relationship

• What to do about feelings of anger and jealousy

• How to help a friend who might be in an abusive relationship

This program addresses perpetrators of violence as well as victims. It works as both a prevention and intervention tool, with case studies and activities that are relevant for teens who have not started dating as well as those who have been "going out" for a long time." (impactpublications.com) Safe Dates is delivered in 10 one-hour sessions. Not A Number by Love146 Not A Number "is an interactive, five-module prevention curriculum. It is designed to teach youth how to protect themselves from human trafficking and exploitation through information, critical thinking, and skill development. The content of Not A Number is presented in a manner that inspires youth to make safe choices and utilize healthy support systems by not focusing on one particular aspect of the issue, but instead taking a holistic approach focusing on respect, empathy, individual strengths, and the relationship between personal and societal pressures that create or increase vulnerabilities." (love146.org) Not A Number caregiver training is also available for parents, guardians, and other caregivers of youth 12-18. Stewards of Children by Darkness to Light Darkness to Light's® Stewards of Children is a sexual abuse prevention training program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The program teaches that child safety is an adult's job. Stewards of Children is designed for organizations that serve children and youth. (childrensadvocacyproject.org) Stewards of Children is a 2.5-hour training. And Then It Changed: Child Sexual Abuse is Preventable And Then It Changed is a prevention program created especially for 5th grade students and their families as a tool to prevent child sexual abuse. This one-hour presentation and its activities demonstrate simple changes each of us can make to help end the sexual abuse of children.

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Offers an array of services in-person and virtually:

• Adult assessment/psychological testing

• Individual and group therapy

• Prevention consultation on policies and procedures to reduce risk of sexual abuse of children

• Psycho-educational sexual prevention/diversion program

• Sexual abuse prevention workshops for teachers, parents, and youth-serving organizations

• Specialized sex offender treatment for adults

• Women's support group

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include:

• Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments

• Community education and professional training

• Confidentiality

• Crisis line

• Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc.

• Individual and group support

• Safety planning

Provides assistance and support to member programs and training to allied professionals throughout Minnesota by offering services such as:

• Advocacy Support: Assists in developing practical tools and resources to support advocates. Supports advocates through technical assistance including, training, resources, sharing of information, expertise, and making connections.

• Medical Forensic Compliance: Aims to improve consistency regarding medical forensic exam access, quality, and payment processes for sexual assault victims across the state of Minnesota

• Prevention: Works with communities, organizations, and individuals throughout Minnesota to eliminate the root causes of sexual violence, including the norms, behaviors, and environments that contribute to a person causing harm

• Public Policy: Works towards identifying and strengthening sexual violence prevention approaches, supporting adequate funding for victim service advocacy programs, and building a strong justice system response to sexual violence through effective laws and policies

• Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking: Leadership in statewide Safe Harbor initiatives and legislation

• Sexual Violence Justice Institute: Works with communities to create a comprehensive, victim-centered response through multidisciplinary collaborations, leadership development, training, and technical assistance

NOTE: MNCASA does not provide direct advocacy services, and cannot guarantee confidentiality. Individuals seeking free and confidential advocacy services can find one using a locator tool online at rapehelpmn.org.

Uses culturally based training, technical assistance, strategies, resources, tools, and a wide range of events and activities to engage and support survivors of sexual violence, advocates, service providers, community, and allies that are working to end sexual violence and sex trafficking across Minnesota's 11 federally recognized Tribal Nations, urban Native bases, and Tribal communities across the country. Services are provided through educational trainings, policy forums, and public awareness.

Provides therapy, crisis services, and education to victims of sexual assault and teens through a range of services:

• Telephone crisis response

• Short-term counseling

• Responds to local hospital emergency rooms

• Legal advocacy

• Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality

• Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process.

• Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

• Workshops and Education: Offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Drop-in center for those whose lives have been affected by sexual or domestic violence:

• 24-hour support and advocacy

• Community education, violence prevention, and protection planning

• Connections to temporary emergency safe housing

• Information and resource materials to help navigate options

• Legal advocacy and assistance with Orders for Protection or Harassment Restraining Orders

• Safety planning and resource referrals

• Supportive counseling and accompaniment to court or medical appointments

Just Ask by Safe House Project (formerly Anti-Trafficking International) "Just Ask" provides evidence-based lessons for 6th-10th grade students with the tools and skills to recognize sexual violence, teen trafficking, and unhealthy relationships, as well as how to access resources when needed. Lessons are two 45-minute sessions but can be adapted as needed. Topics by grade level:

• 6th: Teen trafficking, abuse, and neglect

• 7th: Teen trafficking and online safety

• 8th: Trafficking, exploitation, and healthy relationships

• 9th: Sexual violence, exploitation, and sex trafficking

• 10th: Healthy relationships, exploitation, and sex trafficking

One Love Workshops "One Love's interactive skills-based workshops creates opportunities for participants to practice the language of healthy and unhealthy relationships, actively explore and express their ideas with peers, and to reflect on their experiences. One Love's workshops utilize relatable films that allow participants to explore the complicated dynamics of relationships." (joinonelove.org) Workshops are available for middle school through college audiences. Most workshops are about an hour. Coaching Boys Into Men by Futures Without Violence "FUTURES' Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program leverages the power of sports by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault. The CBIM curriculum consists of a series of coach-to-athlete trainings that illustrate ways to model respect and promote healthy relationships. The CBIM card series instructs coaches on how to incorporate themes associated with teamwork, integrity, fair play, and respect into their daily practice and routine." (futureswithoutviolence.org) Coaches attend a two-hour training clinic with Victim Services to learn the CBIM curriculum and then facilitate one 15-minute discussion with their athletes once a week throughout the season. Safe Dates by Hazelden Safe Dates helps young people recognize the difference between healthy, caring, and supportive relationships, and controlling, manipulative, and abusive dating relationships. Program incorporates updated facts and statistics about teen dating violence, scenarios that now reflect a more diverse population, and information regarding dating abuse via technology. This evidence-based curriculum gets young people thinking about:

• How they want to be treated by a dating partner

• How they want to treat a girlfriend or boyfriend

• What abusive dating relationships look like

• Why dating abuse happens and its causes and consequences

• How to tell if they are in an abusive relationship

• What to do about feelings of anger and jealousy

• How to help a friend who might be in an abusive relationship

This program addresses perpetrators of violence as well as victims. It works as both a prevention and intervention tool, with case studies and activities that are relevant for teens who have not started dating as well as those who have been "going out" for a long time." (impactpublications.com) Safe Dates is delivered in 10 one-hour sessions. Not A Number by Love146 Not A Number "is an interactive, five-module prevention curriculum. It is designed to teach youth how to protect themselves from human trafficking and exploitation through information, critical thinking, and skill development. The content of Not A Number is presented in a manner that inspires youth to make safe choices and utilize healthy support systems by not focusing on one particular aspect of the issue, but instead taking a holistic approach focusing on respect, empathy, individual strengths, and the relationship between personal and societal pressures that create or increase vulnerabilities." (love146.org) Not A Number caregiver training is also available for parents, guardians, and other caregivers of youth 12-18. Stewards of Children by Darkness to Light Darkness to Light's® Stewards of Children is a sexual abuse prevention training program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The program teaches that child safety is an adult's job. Stewards of Children is designed for organizations that serve children and youth. (childrensadvocacyproject.org) Stewards of Children is a 2.5-hour training. And Then It Changed: Child Sexual Abuse is Preventable And Then It Changed is a prevention program created especially for 5th grade students and their families as a tool to prevent child sexual abuse. This one-hour presentation and its activities demonstrate simple changes each of us can make to help end the sexual abuse of children.

• Division of community outreach provides presentations to companies, civic and nonprofit groups, professional and faith-based organizations, community events, schools, and parent groups

• Bullying and cyberbullying prevention and education

• Resource library of videotapes and printed materials concerning the issue of online safety, personal safety, non-family abductions, and sexual exploitation

• Participates at Community Notification meetings in partnership with law enforcement and other organizations

Provides therapy, crisis services, and education to victims of sexual assault and teens through a range of services:

• Telephone crisis response

• Short-term counseling

• Responds to local hospital emergency rooms

• Legal advocacy

• Safe at Home application assistance for address confidentiality

• Support group for individuals who have experienced sexual abuse designed to help people begin to recover from the effects of trauma and to help them find ways to grow, flourish and enjoy healthy relationships and happier lives. Individuals receive support from peers and advocates. Individuals learn about dynamics and the culture surrounding sexual violence, common reactions and feelings, as well as coping skills that may aid in the healing process.

• Works with victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

• Workshops and Education: Offers community education speakers on a range of topics such as bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, healthy relationships, impact of domestic violence on child witnesses, media violence, sexual assault awareness and prevention, and teen dating violence

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Provides a variety of individual, group, and organizational training to help educate and raise awareness about various topics. Services include:

• Community awareness opportunities to provide information at community events, public spaces, and resource fairs

• Educational presentations to fit the needs of community partners regarding abuse, body safety, domestic violence, exploitation, healthy relationships, human trafficking, and sexual violence

• Professional training topics on child abuse, domestic violence, roles of an advocate, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and victims' rights

Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention: An intervention and healing program for Native women, girls, and Two Spirit people who have experienced intimate partner violence, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or commercial sexual exploitation. Offers counseling and community-based education activities to clients that encourage healing, build resilience, reduce risk of repeat traumas, etc. Healing Journey: A structured peer support group for adult American Indian women ages 18 and over who are challenged by chronic mental health, substance use, and trauma histories. ?Safe Harbor Initiative: A supportive program for youth ages 24 and under who have experienced sexual exploitation or are at risk of sexual exploitation. ?Sexual Assault Advocacy: Provides crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, forensic examination support, and court advocacy for American Indian survivors of sexual violence. Street Outreach: A collaborative street outreach program designed to facilitate a path towards a healthier life for people who are ready to make a positive change. Wawokiye: Provides outreach and services for youth and adults who are experiencing sex trafficking, unsheltered relatives, and those who need services realted to opioid addictions.

Description ADDITIONAL PHONE NUMBERS: DISTRICT 316 - Greenway - DaNae Rutherford (218)245-2622 DISTRICT 318 - Grand Rapids - Kasie Maeder (218)327-5727 x45708 Bigfork - Sue Meyers (218)743-3444 DISTRICT 317 - Deer River - Pat Rendle (218)246-2420 DISTRICT 319 - Nashwauk/Keewatin - Kasie Maeder (218)327-5727 x45708 DISTRICT 2 - Hill City - (218)697-2394 DISTRICT 118 - Northland Community (Remer) - Lin Benson (218)566-2351 DISTRICT 698 - Floodwood - Dr. Rae Villebrun (218)476-2285 ext. 70102 ?- Schools are now mandated by law to have a sexual harassment policy, and most have a sexual harassment reporting form. - After receiving a report, they must notify the District Human Rights Officer with 24 hours. - An investigation is begun by School Officials or a 3rd party. - If the complaint is found to be valid, the school must take action and show a written action plan to the victim. - For legal action to be taken, all Administrative actions must have been exhausted. - This includes having the victim confront the harasser. - Charges must be filed with the Human Rights Commission within 1 ear of the last incident of harassment or with the EEOC within 300 days of the last incident of harassment. - Steps to take in handling a sexual harassment case in the schools are: - Confront the harasser and tell him/her to stop - Document every incident, noting time, place, what happened, witnesses, etc. - Report to the Principal, Counselor, Teacher, Interventionist or Human Rights Officer - Take legal action.

Provides supportive services working in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Health's Safe Harbor and other federal agencies for youth aged 28 and under in the Twin Cities metro area and surrounding suburbs who are at risk of or already experiencing sexual violence or trauma.

• Provides prevention, intervention, and aftercare supportive services for any young person aged 28 and under in the seven-county metro area who has experienced or is at risk of experiencing various levels of violence and trauma, focusing on sexual exploitation/sex trafficking.

• Gender-specific services for female/femme/trans youth age 17 and under in Ramsey, Hennepin, and Anoka counties offering one-on-one supportive services to young people who are justice system involved, experiencing sexual exploitation/human trafficking, or who are at high risk.

• Provides one-on-one life coaching and mentoring support aimed at helping assess and meet basic needs and goals, including strength-based, harm reduction, non-judgmental, and trauma-informed best practices

• Provides group-based education aimed at decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors/resilience to prevent human trafficking and other forms of sexual trauma or domestic violence, and promotes healthy relationships

• Provides opportunities for youth to safely engage in pro-social activities with peers, such as camping and outdoor activities, field trips, and skill-building workshops

• Culturally specific services for Native youth aged 24 and under in the seven county metro area who have experienced exploitation or trafficking including one-on-one supportive services, opportunities to connect or reconnect to traditional healing and cutural practices, and to engaged in culturally specific pro-social activities, events, and workshops.