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sexual assault crisis & prevention services

 

Project Sister Family Services (PSFS) strives to reduce the trauma and the risk of sexual assault, child abuse, and child sexual abuse in the East San Gabriel and Inland Valleys of Southern California by providing a variety of crisis intervention services and outreach and prevention programs.

Resources and News

 

Online Resources

  • CALCASA - California Coalition Against Sexual Assault - statewide coalition of rape crisis centers and prevention programs with the mission to "provide leadership, vision and resources to rape crisis centers, individuals and other entities committed to ending sexual violence."

  • Parents for Megan's Law and the Crime Victims Center - community and victim's rights organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse through the provision of education, advocacy, counseling, victim services, policy and legislative support services. A New York State Certified Rape Crisis Center with a 24 Hour Local Hotline, they staff the Local and National Megan's Law Help lines. PFML has recently expanded its mission to include the new Crime Victims Center, a program designed to link all victims of violent crime with crime victim compensation and multi-agency referrals for support and assistance.

  • The Date Safe Project - "provides strong and positive voices for discussing sexual assault awareness, healthy dating, and specifically addressing consent" and produces weekly Podcasts.

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Women's Health Information Center provides information on sexual assault and prevention.

Test Your Safety IQ!

Do you know simple facts about personal safety? Take this quiz and find out!

True or false?

  1. Elderly women are more likely to be assaulted in their homes than in any other location.
  2. The majority of crimes committed in the home involve doors and windows that are unlocked.
  3. Carrying yourself with self-confidence helps to decrease one’s susceptibility for becoming a victim of crime.
  4. Seniors are incapable of protecting themselves.
  5. Rape happens when a man's sex drive gets out of control.
  6. Most rape and sexual assaults are committed by strangers.
  7. You should always carry your Social Security card with you.
  8. An oatmeal box in the pantry is a better place to store money and valuables than under your mattress. 
  9. It is a good idea to cover the pin pad when using a bank ATM or bank card during a transaction. 
  10. It is a good idea to sign the back of your credit cards with the statement “check for photo ID.” 

Answers - True: 1,2,3,8,9,10;   False: 4,5,6,7

Your Score

  • 10 correct: You’re a safety genius!
  • 6-9 correct: You should study safety matters harder.
  • 0-5 correct: Call (909) 623-1619 to sign up for the next class in Awareness and Personal Safety at Project Sister Family Services.

Services for adults molested as children

Many people assume that our sexual assault crisis services are only for adults who have been raped or children who have abused. In fact, nearly half of the work we do in our counseling department at Project Sister Family Services is working with adults who were sexually abused as children. A recent study found that as many as 27% of women and 16% of men had been sexually abused as children. Read more >>>

National news

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Teen Sexual Assault Survivors Seldom Complete HIV Prevention Therapy - "Fewer than one-half of adolescent sexual assault survivors who are prescribed medications to prevent contraction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may return for follow-up visits and only about 15 percent complete the therapy, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. " 06 July 2006

Sexual Assault Not Just 'Women's Issue,' Expert Says - "Sexual assault cannot be relegated to being regarded as a "women's issue," said Don McPherson, the keynote speaker at the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Awareness Month observance yesterday." 05 April 2006

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Sexual Violence Factsheet

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For immediate crisis assistance, please call our 24-hour Help Line. All other questions or comments can be directed to Project Sister Family Services Information. Questions and comments should be non-emergency in nature and will be answered within a week of receipt.

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