Reposted from Amnesty International USA Women's Human Rights NetworkA strong, new resource from The Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC): "What To Do When You Are Raped, An ABC Handbook For Native Girls." Please share widely!
NEW! Today, The Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC) published What To Do When You Are Raped, An ABC Handbook For Native Girls. This book is a resource aimed at answering the questions women face following a sexual assault, from thinking through buying emergency contraception, to getting tested for STDS, to who to turn to for support.
Native Americans are raped at a rate nearly double that any other race annually – 34.1 percent. More than 1 in 3 Native American women will be raped in their lifetime, and three-fourths have experienced some type of sexual assault in their lives. In an effort to help communities better respond, NAWHERC created this illustrated handbook with the assistance of Lucy Bonner, a Design and Technology graduate student and research assistant at PETLab at Parsons School of Design. The project was funded by the Ms. Foundation for Women.
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Click here for a pdf of this important handbook.
