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 SART IN ACTION!Georgia Southern's Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is involved with the following activities:
SAPASexual Assault Prevention Advocates is a student organization at Georgia Southern University whose mission is to promote discussion among peers regarding the issues of sexual violence. The main goal of these discussions is to increase awareness and sensitivity regading sexual assault, improve communication between women and men around sexual issues, to educate students about sexual assault risk factors, and to reduce the incidence of sexual violence. SAPA fulfills its mission by providing a Women's Program: Men's Program Mixed-Gender Program to students and the Georgia Southern University Community. SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTHFor one month during March or April of each year, SART sponsors the following events...
Click here to see photos of last year's event. SEX SIGNALS!
SART works to bring this nationally acclaimed educational performance to campus each year. While our target audience is the freshman class, all students are welcome to attend. In 2005, SEX SIGNALS! performed 5 times between August 30th and 31st. Over 2,000 Georgia Southern students attended. Using a combination of improvisational comedy, education, and audience participation, SEX SIGNALS provided a provocative look at the issues of dating, sex, and ultimately, date rape on college campuses. See the SEX SIGNALS web site for more information about this program. See photos of the performance. COLLABORATION WITH THE STATESBORO REGIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER, INC. (SR-SAC)Serving Bulloch, Screven and Jenkins Counties, the Statesboro Regional Sexual Assault Center (SR-SAC) provides:
SR-SAC is a 501(c)3 community based non-profity agency. All contributions are tax deductible.
SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE ADVOCATES (SANE)Georgia Southern students now have five SANE nurses available at the Health Services Center. This will enable students who have been victimized to bypass the local Emergency Room and have evidence collected, statements taken, and medical attention received in the more familiar and affordable setting of the Georgia Southern campus. Currently, SANE is available on campus during operating hours of 8am - 5pm. Students needing SANE services outside of business house should contact the University Police Department at 912.478.5234 and request contact with the on-call SANE provider. Read more about the SANE program.
LOBBYING EFFORTSIn 2006 SART created the Georgia College SART list-serve, which was subsumed by the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault (GNESA) in 2007. This list-serve was developed to allow Sexual Assault Addvocates throughout the state to begin to dialogue about needed legislative reforms. In 2008 SART representatives joined advocates at the State Capital in Atlanta, Georgia for "A Day to End Violence Against Women." This large scale lobbying effort highlighted for legislators some of the problematic issues with Georgia's current legal codes. SART returned to Atlanta for the 2009 Day to End Sexual Violence, bringing along 9 SAPA students who were selected from among all Georgia state university students to perform at the event's press conference! RAPE AGGRESSION DEFENSE (R.A.D.) TRAININGSART is a strong supporter of the Rape Aggression Defense System, or R.A.D., which is a national program that teaches realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. At GSU, the R.A.D. program is sponsored by Public Safety. More information can be found at http://welcome.georgiasouthern.edu/publicsafety/rad.htm.CONSULTATIONSART has worked with professionals at other universities to assist in the development and implementation of their own SARTs. Universities mentored include Armstrong Atlantic University and Savannah State University.POSTER CAMPAIGNSART purchases and distributes a wide variety of awareness raising posters which are placed throughout the university community. In addition, through the support of local proprietors, we are able to place posters in many of the bars, restaurants, and establishments frequented by our students. Examples of these posters can be found at www.MenCanStopRape.org and www.911rape.org/request. See our Thank You page for participating businesses. COLLABORATION WITH AMETHYST INTERNATIONALIn 2006, SART co-sponsored the Walk for Living, an event of "Statesboro Cares," which is a week of activities aimed at enhancing awareness about HIV-AIDS in the Georgia Southern and Statesboro communities. OTHER RESOURCES
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