Module 2: What Is Sexual Assault Advocacy/Counseling?
Use this module to help your participants understand their roles and responsibilities as advocates and the roles of others with whom they will work. The module also will help participants determine if the advocate role is appropriate for them.
Time Required: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Lessons
Basic Tenets of Advocacy (5 minutes)
Overview of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (20 minutes)
Roles of the Advocate (10 minutes)
Maintaining Confidentiality (40 minutes)
Is Advocacy the Right Choice? (20 minutes)
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module, participants will be able to
Describe the composition of a SART.
Identify the major roles of an advocate.
Make appropriate decisions based on state confidentiality laws.
Describe personal issues that might affect their ability to be effective advocates.
Important! Read the trainer's materials available at right well before presenting the course to your audience. These materials contain preparation instructions essential to an effective training. (All other module-specific materials and tools also are available at right.)
Create a folder for SAACT on your computer and download all the files you'll need in that folder rather than using the SAACT Web site during the training. Note: Vignettes are closed-captioned; click on the "cc" button in the download version to view captioning.
To download files, right click on the file and select "save target as."
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