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NSVRC is partnering with Phoenix Gender-Based Violence Lab to conduct research for a trauma-informed needs assessment that addresses the needs, experiences, and priorities of survivors and their communities.

The Gail Burns-Smith Award honors two advocates who are bridging support for survivors with treatment for those who cause sexual harm.

Mo Lewis, NSVRC Prevention Coordinator, contemplates AI and its ethical and functional place in the sexual violence prevention movement.

Each April, communities across the country come together to recognize Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s a time to raise our voices, support survivors, and take meaningful steps toward prevention. We are deeply grateful for every person who showed up this April. Survivors, advocates, educators, students, organizers, and community members all played a role in making SAAM 2025 a powerful example of care, resilience, and action.

Growing up in Maine, I often heard the words “You can’t get there from here.” Working in the field of prevention, these words often echo in my mind.

This new tool offers strategies for engaging communities around health equity by aligning messages with the values of specific audiences. It includes clear examples of how to talk about health equity in plain, accessible language.

With much anticipation, registration is open for the National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in Anaheim, California on August 26-28, 2025. The newly-established Sexual Assault Capacity Building Centers (SACBCs), created by Respect Together and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, are collaborating to provide opportunities for learning at the conference.

Tuesday April 29, 2025: Stand With Survivors. Support Prevention. 

April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)— a time to raise awareness, support survivors, and take action to prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. This year’s theme is “Together We Act, United We Change.” It’s a reminder that we all have a role to play in creating safer communities and ending sexual violence.

Each April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) offers a powerful opportunity to not only affirm our efforts to prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment alongside our partners and fellow advocates—but also to to educate and welcome new voices to the movement. 

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of March of 2021 provided millions of dollars in funding for rape crisis centers to help support sexual assault survivors and continued delivery of victim support services. The funds allocated by ARP are intended to provide much-needed assistance including: counseling, mobile advocacy, telehealth, teletherapy, peer support,temporary housing, rental assistance, nominal relocation expenses, equipment, software to assist in carrying out virtual services, and supplies required to meet the emergency needs of survivors.