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July 2020 Newsletter
COVID-19 Update SSAIC’s main office phone line hours and intake services have been expanded back to our regular hours of 9am-noon and 1pm-5pm, Monday to Friday. While our office has remained closed to walk-ins, counsellors have resumed some face-to-face counselling on a limited basis by appointment only (priority for limited face to face counselling will…
Can I Report a Sexual Assault Years Later?
And other questions survivors ask us about the reporting process It is not uncommon to have mixed feelings or fear about making a police report after a sexual assault, and the popular information can be confusing, or frankly, misleading. Many clients of ours ask our counselling team the same questions about the legal system. Most…
Teachings from “Know My Name” by Chanel Miller
You may not know her name yet, but you sure won’t forget it after reading her story. For the last five years, Chanel Miller was better known as “Emily Doe”, or even more objectively, as “Brock Turner’s victim”. I say objectively because she was no longer talked about as an individual human. She was associated…
December 2020 Newsletter
Happy December, and end of 2020! Here’s to ending more attitudes and beliefs of rape culture and seeing more survivors thrive in 2021. COVID-19 Update It’s with heavy hearts that we’ve made the difficult decision to pull back our in-person appointments to keep our staff, clients, and community safe. But rest assured; we are still…
What have we learned from one year of VACR?
We’re one year into the Violence Against Women Advocate Case Review (VACR), and what have we learned? What’s next for this project and the work that came from it? And most importantly – what does this project mean for survivors? Police services across Canada faced country-wide scrutiny after an investigation by the Globe and Mail…
February Reading List
Decisions That Matter An interactive graphic novel that lets you simulate a day in the life of a college student, where in the end your decisions on how to intervene as a bystander can help prevent a sexual assault from happening. *Contains some strong language The Nature of Things examines PTSD New research…
