Forensic Interview Guide For Parents and Caregivers
Discovering that a child or teen in your life may have been abused or may have witnessed a traumatic event is likely to be a stressful experience. This information may help answer some of your questions about how the CAC and forensic interview process works.
NM Survivor’s Bill of Rights
As a survivor, under NM Statutes you have specific rights. This brochure summarizes the rights of survivors under NMSA 30-9-21.
Community Conversations: Sexual Violence Prevention Strategies for New Mexico
The New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc. conducted a Primary Prevention Capacity Assessment of readiness to plan and implement equity-focused strategies, devolop recommendation based on assessment findings to promote health equity, and advance primary prevention in future work.
The Debunking Handbook
Unless great care is taken, any effort to debunk misinformation can inadvertently reinforce the very myths one seeks to correct. This handbook offers tools to understand the psychology behind debunking and to effectively dispel myths.
Hope Behind Bars: An Advocate’s Guide to Helping Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention
This manual aims to help rape crisis advocates and other victim services providers to support survivors of sexual abuse in detention.
Model Guidelines: Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals in Domestic Violence Programs and Shelters
This document will help support Advocates and others in making better informed decisions regarding service animals and emotional support animals by providing an informed framework for addressing conflicts and embracing complications as an integral part of advocacy services.
Disability Etiquette Top 10 Tips
When disability etiquette is used, everyone feels more comfortable and interacts more effectively. The United Spine Association offers 10 quick tips for how to respectfully support people with disabilities.
Communicating With and About People With Disabilities
Disability is part of the human experience, but sometimes people use words or phrases that are insensitive and do not promote understanding, dignity, and respect for people with disabilities. This resource by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities offers simple tips for language that can increase belonging and respect.
ADA Checklist for Readily Achievable Barriers Removal
This checklist will help you identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet your obligations under the ADA. The goal of the survey process is to plan how to make an existing facility more usable for people with disabilities.
Quick Tips: Trans Inclusion
Providers can ensure transgender survivors feel seen, supported, and safe through the language they use, the policies they have, and other simple actions. This resource, created by Forge, outlines tips for programs to make their services for inclusive for trans survivors.