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Services include confidential comprehensive forensic medical evaluations, exams, treatment, and advocacy services for survivors of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, intimate partner domestic violence and intimate partner strangulation. This includes emergency and delayed disclosures.
Patients can be referred to Victim Services by TCRHCC clinics and departments, other hospitals, programs, agencies and/or on their own. When receiving referrals, Victim Services works with both tribal and non-tribal members, entities, and agencies – within and outside the Western Agency Service Area.
Note: “Patient”, “victim”, and “survivor” are synonymous identifiers as to who is receiving services. This includes adults, adolescents, and children.
Sexual assault refers to sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the victim. Some forms of sexual assault include attempted rape; fondling or unwanted sexual touching; forcing a victim to perform sexual acts, such as oral sex or penetrating the perpetrator’s body; penetration of the victim’s body, also known as rape (www.rainn.org).
Any contact of a child’s/teen’s (17 years and younger) private body parts with the intension other than caretaking or hygiene. Private body parts are parts of the body that is under a bathing suit. CSA actions that do not involve contact are when someone exposes themselves to the child/teen; someone shows the child/teen pornography; someone who watches a child/teen during a moment that should be private; and/or someone who communicates in a sexual manner by phone or internet with the child/teen. (Dr. Renee Ornelas, Family Advocacy Center)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm, including acts of aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviors. This definition covers violence by both current and former spouses and partners. (https://apps.who.int/violence-info/intimate-partner-violence/)
Strangulation is defined as the obstruction of blood vessels and/or airflow in the neck resulting in asphyxia. And just like you can’t be “a little pregnant,” victims can’t be “choked just a little bit” by their attackers and not have serious, significant, permanent, or even fatal damage to their throats or brains (www.scvanw.org/strangulation/). Intimate Partner Strangulation is when strangulation occurs by a current or former spouse and partner.
SANE stands for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. They are also known as Forensic Nurse Examiners. The nurse examiners conduct medical forensic examinations to children, adolescents, and adults and can serve as an expert witness in court. Nurse examiners work with police, prosecutors, child/adult protective services, and advocates to provide the best and most appropriate care for patients experiencing trauma from domestic violence and sexual violence.
SART stands for Sexual Assault Response Team. The team consists of, but is not limited to, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, law enforcement, prosecution, emergency department providers, victim advocates, family/social services, school representatives and counseling/behavioral health services. The overall goal of SART is to assist and support survivors with the medical, investigative, legal, and healing processes. Healing and empowerment are important elements for survivors to attain who are in a current state of trauma, in the processes to come and to continue living their lives in a healthy way. SART meets monthly to coordinate, review and update cases and services to ensure each survivor and their support system is benefiting from each respective area of focus.
Victim Advocate
928-283-2900
Director of Trauma/Victim Services, SANE
928-283-2829
Program Coordinator/Victim Advocate
928-283-2934
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167 North Main St.
PO Box 600
Tuba City, Arizona 86045
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