MS Rural Services Advocacy Forensics / Faith-based Enhanced Response (SAFER)
MSCASA conducts site visits to rural hospitals/clinics to promote SANE/SART education and “Boutique” SANE courses to smaller hospitals to offset travel costs due to staffing shortages to cover 5-day shifts. These site visits include 4-hour training in emergent care for sexual assault victims, and 6-hour advanced training includes strangulation and human trafficking. In addition, MSCASA:
- Promote travel assistance to 10 healthcare providers to attend regional 40-hour Adult SANE or 40-hour Pediatric SANE trainings and assists in formation of SARTs,
- Implements PREA standards in working with incarcerated victims and family members,
- Provides emotional support to survivors in confinement,
- Increases Outreach Advocates to engage, promote, connect survivors to services and be culturally responsive to the needs of rural community,
- Provides short and long-term holistic services that address a survivor’s physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual health
- Conducts 36 series of faith-based trainings statewide,
- Provides culturally specific healing services to provide long-term and short-term needs of sexual violence survivors when traditional services are not available, and
- Offers training related to responding to the holistic and healing needs of rural survivors of sexual violence.