The numbers are staggering and the impact even worse. More than half of women have experienced sexual violence during their lifetime, and nearly half of rape victims were raped before their 18th birthdays, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
April is sexual assault awareness month. We had an opportunity to sit down with Alana Sacks, board president of Haven Box, a relatively new organization whose mission is to provide immediate and long-term services to survivors of sexual assault.
While the organization is just three years old, Sacks has been working with sexual survival victims for more than a decade and currently is associate director for Response Services in the Department of BWell Health Promotion at Brown University.
Haven Box provides sexual assault victims with more than the materials in the boxes, but also a sense of dignity and realization that they are not alone.
Haven Box works with a number of local hospitals and colleges and universities.
In this podcast, Sacks tells the Haven Box story, the trauma experienced by sexual assault victims, and talks about the resources available for victims of sexual assault.
