Our Voice

Crisis Services Our VOICE provided crisis support, case management, and court advocacy to 586 survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking in 2021-2022. These services included general advocacy both in-person and over the phone, counseling, calls to our 24/7 crisis line, hospital accompaniment, advocacy around shelter, medical support, protective orders, victim impact statements, and support during law enforcement interviews and trial.

Prevention Our VOICE provided prevention education programming to 1,289 youth and 1,240 adults through a variety of curriculum. Adult programs include the research-based Bar Outreach Project, 86 It (Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry), Bystander Intervention, and Human Trafficking 101. Youth programs were taught primarily to middle school age students and included Consent is Everything, Shifting Boundaries, and Teach 2 Reach. All Our VOICE education programs are evidence-based and evidence-informed and approach prevention with a public health lens as a community responsibility towards ending rape culture and sexual violence.

Counseling Through our Counseling Department, Our VOICE Counselors provided 2,194 individual and group counseling sessions to primary and secondary survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking. This short-term, trauma-focused therapy was provided in a variety of modalities including EMDR, DBT, CBT, and ART. Counseling groups focused on specific survivor demographics or experiences.