The Facts
True or False: Most sexual assaults are committed by strangers.
What is false
Who can a survivor talk to after an assault?
What is a trusted friend, counselor, or sexual assault hotline?
In what year did U.S. women gain the right to vote?
What is 1920?
Which law, passed in 1994, aimed to improve criminal justice response to violence against women?
What is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?
Name one long-term effect sexual assault can have on survivors.
What is PTSD, anxiety, depression, or substance abuse?
What is a rape kit used for?
What is collecting forensic evidence after an assault?
Which Supreme Court case in 1973 gave women legal access to abortion, impacting bodily autonomy conversations?
What is Roe v. Wade?
Federal law that protects students from sexual harassment and assault in schools and colleges
Title IX
What age group faces the highest risk of sexual assault?
What is 18–24 years old?
Name one type of professional support available to survivors.
What is therapy, legal advocacy, or medical services?
Marital rape became illegal in all 50 U.S. states by what year?
What is 1993?
This act requires colleges/universities to report campus crime data
What is the Clery Act?
What percentage of sexual assaults are reported to the police?
What is less than 40%?
What is the number for the National Sexual Assault Hotline?
What is 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
Which major feminist event in 2017 brought millions of people together worldwide to protest gender-based violence and inequality?
What is the Women’s March?
This act prevents, detects, and responds to sexual abuse in prisons and jails
What is the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)?
The percentages of women that will experience sexual assault in their lifetime
What is 1 in 3? (33%)
What is the role of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)?
What is a nurse trained to provide care and collect forensic evidence after an assault?
Who is the activist known for launching the #MeToo movement in 2006?
Who is Tarana Burke?
This 2016 federal law guarantees survivors the right to access their rape kit results, be informed before the kit is destroyed, and obtain information about their case
What is the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act?