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April marks Sexual Assault Awareness month

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April marks Sexual Assault Awareness month
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness month

From July 2018 to June 2019, One Safe Place served more than 1800 domestic violence clients, 186 sexual assault clients, saw 685 crisis hotlines and had more than 7000 visits for service.

This month is sexual assault awareness month.

Action news now reporter ana torrea is live in redding and looks into how we can assist victims of sexual assualt.

Advocates tell me how we can victims who've experienced sexual assault, it to listen to them and believe them.

April marks sexual assault awareness month.

Stephen campbell one safe place interim executive director this is a much more common problem.

That most of us actually realize.

I asked stephen campbell why it's such a common problem here at home.

Stephen campbell one safe place interim executive director here in shasta county we have some of the highest aces scores in any of the counties in california.

// the other thing that's kind of unique about where we are as well is because we're here in northern california and right on the i-5 corridor, there's just a significant amount of human trafficking that happens through our area as well.

From july 2018 - june 2019, one safe place served: more than 18- hundred domestic violence clients... 186 sexual assault clients... saw 685 crisis hotlines calls... and had more than 7000 visits for services... ana torrea atorreanews campbell says there are signs identify if someone is a victim of sexual assault or abuse.

The biggest sign is a change in behavior.

They begin to withdraw or start to lash out.

Jessie ballard works at shasta college.

Where she works on the college's "shasta cares" program.

That helps its students who've experienced sexual assault or forms other sexual violence.

Jessie ballard shasta cares program director prior to covid, we would see students coming in and a lot of times there was a lot of stalking cases that we would see our students coming in for but the best way to help victims of sexual assualt.... jessie ballard shasta cares program director the biggest thing we can do is listen and believe and have non-judgement in our hearts to show survivors that we are there to support stephen campbell one safe place interim executive director it's so critical that if somebody comes to you and tells you that they've been assaulted that you believe them one safe place says, because of the pandemic it saw an increase in its crisis hotlines, but a decrease of in-person services.

Reporting live in redding, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.

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