Promising Practice Programs & Responses for Sexual Assault
ACSSA is developing a database of "promising practice" programs and approaches in responding to sexual assault. Once established the database will be available for searching. Currently, program details are available for browsing from the links below.
- Aboriginal Healing Project
This two-year project will provide healing services to Indigenous individuals and families affected by family and domestic violence, and sexual violence, with the goal of measurably increasing safety and reducing harm within families.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.17] - About Date Rape Website
The About Date Rape website provides non-judgmental and supportive information to young people seeking help or information about date rape and sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.6] - Another Layer of Trauma
This program is a full day workshop that focuses on the traumatic impact of sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - Anyone's
Story - Video and DVD
'Anyone's Story' is a contemporary teaching resource for health and police educators to deliver education to workers/members on responding to adult victims of sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.9] - 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
Community awareness campaign to promote understanding around adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. - BITSS
of Protective Play - A skill based workshop for family
and child workers
BITSS is a parent friendly, in-the-home, model of child sexual assault prevention. It is a play-based model that makes use of items that surround children in their daily life and that can act as positive triggers for remembering personal safety. - Celebrate don't
Violate
Health promotion and crime prevention strategy targeting school leavers. - Feeling Safe
Together
Providing safety programs in primary schools through training of staff, parents and children. - Forensic & Medical
Sexual Assault Care (FAMSAC)
FAMSAC provides high quality forensic and medical care to people who have experienced sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - Information Kit About Sexual Assault for the Deaf Community
Information brochure and DVD about sexual assault, specifically designed to meet the needs of the deaf community. - Jacaranda Project
The Northern Sydney Sexual Assault Service group work program for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. - Joint Springvale Monash Community Legal Service/South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault Clinic (SECASA)
Provision of legal representation to victim/survivors of sexual assault and training of law students in dealing with sexual assault matters. - Kids Quest Project
Community awareness/education program and a therapeutic-response program for child victim/survivors of sexual assault.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - Kinks and Bends: What's the go with relationships
An educational program to prevent sexual violence in young peoples lives. - Living Well
Living Well is a website that acts as a collection point for information and resources that are useful for men who have been subjected to sexual violence, as well as for partners, friends, family and service providers. - Medical Responses to Adults who have Experienced Sexual Assault: an interactive educational module for doctors
An interactive educational module for doctors including trainees in Emergency Medicine, General Practice, Surgery, Psychiatry and some components of Adult Medicine, as well as Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. - Preventing Prisoner Rape Project - Prisoner Rape Support Package
The Prisoner Rape Support Package has been developed by the Preventing Prisoner Rape Project to try to provide assistance to men who have been raped or sexually assaulted in prison. - Professional and Community Training in Sexuality and Disability
Training workshops and seminars for support workers, service providers and carers of people with disabilities in the area of sexuality. - Protocol: A coordinated approach to better respond to drug facilitated sexual assault, Darwin Urban.
A Protocol developed to ensure all victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault receive appropriate treatment and referrals, and to improve the current services provided to victims/survivors of drug-facilitated sexual assault by promoting a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of service providers. - Rape Crisis Online
Rape Crisis Online offers an alternate way for callers to access NSW Rape Crisis Centre counsellors by providing a real time, online, person to person crisis intervention service accessed via the Centre’s website. [Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - Respect - Day of action against sexual violence
'Respect' is a community education program conducted in the Shoalhaven region to coincide with the Day of Action Against Sexual Violence (DAASV). It has employed several strategies and targeted a range of population groups over it's five year life span. - Respect, Protect, Connect
School based peer educator program for years 7-12. - Respect Relate Stop Rape
Respect Relate Stop Rape is a four-session school-based program that empowers young people to break the silence around sexual violence. It gives participants the knowledge and skills to better understand sexual violence and to stay safe.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - 'Responding to sexual assault and promoting sexual safety' within Queensland Health inpatient mental health services
The responding to sexual assault and promoting sexual safety initiative has undertaken extensive Statewide consultation to develop local area policy and procedures for responding to victims of recent and past sexual assault and promoting sexual safety within Queensland Health inpatient mental health services for consumers aged 16 years and over.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.8] - SAMSSA - Service Assisting Male Survivors of Sexual Assault
SAMSSA is one of the few service providers that offer counselling and support for male victims/survivors. SAMSSA provides face to face counselling, telephone counselling, email-based assistance, referral, support for workers/carers/family members, education and training to the community sector. - SAPPSS - Sexual Assault Prevention Program for Secondary Schools
SAPPSS provides a multi-faceted model for secondary schools to engage in the prevention of sexual assault and promotion of respectful behaviours. In particular, the program meets the needs of school communities wishing to implement violence prevention and respectful relationships education into permanent curriculum - SEA Change Program
SEA Change is a structured group for women who meet once a week over an 8 week period.
The SEA Change Program is oriented to encouraging participants to socialise in order to break the isolation associated with violence/abuse and mental health and improving women's self-esteem and assertiveness. - Sexual Assault and Intellectual Disability Kit
Resource for teaching people with an intellectual disability about sexual assault. - Sexual assault - An information booklet for the Bosnian community
The aim of this booklet is to increase knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding sexual assault within the Bosnian Community and provide information about access and support.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.10] - Sexual Assault in Disability and Aged Care Action Strategy Project
This project aims to effectively prevent and respond to sexual assault of vulnerable women in disability and aged care residential settings.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.18] - Sexual Assault Resource
Centre - Education and Training Unit
The training program provides staff at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia with a greater understanding of the nature and impact of sexual violence on complainants. It hopes to increase their knowledge about the impact of sexual assault and abuse, and in turn, to increase their sensitivity in dealing with complainants. - Sexual Violence Services Tampon Card
Innovative method of distributing sexual assault information to women in a discreet, confidential manner.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.4] - SHAPES - Sexual Harassment and Assault Peer Education and Support Program
The SHAPES program trains select groups of tertiary students as SHAPES 'Reps'. 'Reps' are educated on what constitutes sexual harassment and assault and how to support fellow students who have been harassed or assaulted as well as how to educate peers about sexual violence. share share, stands for "sexual health and relationships education". It is a new project that aims to improve the sexual health, well-being and safety of young people by supporting school communities to deliver education in a safe, supportive environment. - Sharing Community
Education Campaigns: Bus Advertisements and
Postcard Advertisements
A two-part community awareness and education campaign on childhood sexual assault run by Women's Health Statewide and Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault Service. [Read profile ACSSA AWARE No.7] - Shredded
"Shredded" is a short video drama and education kit based on the stories of women from the Annie North Women's Refuge and Domestic Violence Service. It explores the murky and uncertain lines between what is normal couple conflict and what clearly becomes an unhealthy relationship of power and control which emotionally affects the whole family. - Southern Sexual Abuse Counselling and Prevention Program
Adolescent sex offender treatment program. - State wide Drink Spiking Community Education Campaign
The State-wide Drink Spiking Community Education Campaign, disseminates educational messages to patrons in over 130 selected licensed venues (hotels, nightclubs and bars), in metropolitan and regional Victoria on the dangers and other harms associated with drink spiking. - The Man who Stole my Mother's Face
'The Man who Stole my Mother's Face' is an award-winning documentary available on DVD, VHS and online. It explores the unsolved case of the rape of the filmmaker's own mother. - The Right to Party Safely
Research on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assaults occurring in and around licensed venues, and development of responses. - Understanding and Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence
A one day training program designed to increase the knowledge and skills of refuge and domestic violence workers in relation to Intimate Partner Sexual Assault (IPSA).
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.5] - Understanding and Teaching About Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse
This project aims to increase the competence and confidence of teachers and other people who work with young people, in the discussion of sexual violence. - Victorian CASA Forum Inc.
The Victorian CASA Forum Inc. is the peak body of the 15 Centres Against Sexual Assault, and the Victorian Sexual Assault Crisis Line (After Hours).
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7] - 'What the law says about sex' pamphlet
This brochure is aimed at educating and preventing child abuse in the remote Aboriginal communities of Western Australia.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.11] - Working with Older Women: Resources and Standards for Responding
to Current or Past Violence
Training and resource manual for sexual assault and domestic violence workers.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.3] - Working with Young Women Who Self Harm: A resource for workers
A resource book for counsellors and other sexual assault workers supporting young women who self-harm.
[Read profile ACSSA Aware No.7]
Information about promising practice programs and making a submission