服务

夏普为谁服务?

SHARPP is a 免费的 and confidential resource for UNH 教师, 工作人员, and students who have been impacted by interpersonal violence (sexual assault, 虐待的关系, 跟踪, 和性骚扰), regardless of whether that experienced happened during their time at UNH or not. 我们的服务对象包括直接经历过人际暴力的个人和家庭, 朋友, and loved ones who are supporting them. SHARPP致力于为所有身份的个人提供文化响应服务,包括性别认同/表达, 性取向, 比赛, 种族, 宗教, 能力状态, 和年龄. 我们知道人际暴力会对不同身份的人产生不同的影响,并努力从交集中发挥作用, power-conscious, 以及以赋权为基础的框架,以确保我们的服务从整体上支持个人,无论他们身在何处.

夏普如何帮助我?

Reaching out for help can be challenging and takes a lot of courage. It can be helpful to know some of the reasons why others have reached out to SHARPP for help. Please know that the below list is not exhaustive, but rather serves to provide some examples. If you are unsure, please 永利app新版本官网地址 and we can explore ways we can be supportive, including connecting you to any additional or external resources.

  • You had an experience that didn't feel good or was harmful, even if you aren't sure if it was assault or abuse, and want to talk with someone about it.
  • 你已经确定你的经历是侵犯或虐待,并希望了解更多可用的资源,而不必报告它.
  • 你认为你可能想要向学校或警察报告你的经历,并想更多地了解这些过程是什么样的.
  • 在你的生活中有人经历过人际暴力,你想知道更多永利app新版本官网地址如何帮助他们.
  • 你担心你的朋友处于一段受虐待的关系中,想知道更多永利app新版本官网地址如何帮助他们的信息.

SHARPP服务

倡导者是SHARPP的保密工作人员和志愿者,他们与幸存者会面,提供广泛的服务. 所有倡导者都完成了至少30小时的永利app新版本官网地址人际暴力和幸存者可能遇到的系统的培训. 倡导者的目标是通过提供信息、工具、资源和机会来帮助幸存者. They are trained to work with survivors respectfully, 认识到系统可能会令人困惑和不堪重负,并且有些系统可能比其他系统更容易受到某些系统的攻击.

性侵犯, 虐待的关系, 跟踪, and sexual harassment can happen to anyone regardless of identity. 我们在UNH知道这一点, 我们的社区有独特的需求,他们可能会处理一些其他人没有经历过的问题. SHARPP认识到这些差异,并致力于为所有UNH社区成员提供无障碍的服务, 免费的, 社会justice-informed, and confidential services to all survivors and their allies. 

倡导者可以帮助确定选择,并帮助个人以非评判的方式探索最能满足他们特定需求的选择. Survivors are encouraged to make decisions about what is best for them, and are not required to take any options provided by the advocate.

危机是一个人可能会因为他们所处的环境或具有挑战性的情感经历而感到不知所措的时刻. This can be common for individuals who have experienced interpersonal violence. Crises may happen in the moments, 小时, and days after violence occurs, and can happen repeatedly throughout someone's life due to various factors, such as memories of their experience being reactivated.

SHARPP的倡导者可以在危机时刻支持幸存者,旨在帮助他们重新获得控制感和平衡感. In these moments an advocate can provide space to sort through feelings, 的想法, 和情感, as well as helping to identify or strengthen coping skills and discuss options.

Through the 24-hour support line, 办公室访问, and text/online chat services, SHARPP strives to provide support whenever a survivor needs it.

经历人际暴力会影响一个人的情感和身体安全感. SHARPP advocates can help survivors identify what would help them feel safer, and to connect to resources to help make these happen. 倡导将安全规划作为一种个性化的对话来解决每个人独特的安全需求. 安全规划是一个探索可能的选择和结果,并支持幸存者制定对他们来说最安全的计划的过程. 安全计划 may look like exploring current housing arrangements, 上课或工作时间表, support available from family, 朋友或伙伴, and resources available in the community. 夏普将安全规划视为我们提供的所有服务的一个组成部分,而不是一项单独的服务, which  means that as advocates provide advocacy and support in other areas, 他们经常会谈论这些选择如何影响个体幸存者的安全感.

辩护律师可以在遭受性侵犯后陪同遭受性侵犯的人前往医院接受医疗护理(包括强奸工具包)。. This generally happens one of two ways:

  • 个人拨打求助热线或来到夏普办公室,并决定去医院.
  • A survivor is at the hospital and discloses the assault. The hospital is required to call SHARPP to come to the hospital. The survivor can then accept or decline to speak with the advocate. If the survivor declines SHARPP services at that time, the advocate will remain nearby in case the survivor changes their mind at any time.

Undergoing a medical examination, especially one as extensive as a rape kit, can be very difficult and possibly re-traumatizing. 倡导者可以提供情感支持,并回答在整个过程中可能出现的问题. 辩护人的存在完全是为了幸存者,可以帮助他们更好地理解和驾驭可能是压倒性的程序.

An advocate can assist survivors in navigating judicial processes, whether that is criminal, 民事, or the University’s administrative process.

刑事

辩护人可以帮助幸存者决定向警方报案是否是他们的正确选择, and can accompany a survivor who wishes to make a police report. 辩护人也可以出席与此过程相关的任何后续会议或访谈.

民事

An advocate can assist a survivor who is interested in filing a restraining order. The advocate can accompany the survivor to the courthouse, help work through paperwork, 并提供支持 & safety planning for the outcome. Additionally, the advocate can accompany the survivor to the court hearing.

大学的过程

香港大学学生, 教师, and 工作人员 who have experienced violence perpetrated by another UNH community member, SHARPP advocates can help make sense of and pursue options through the University. This may include connecting them with the 民事 Rights and Equity Office 申请支持措施,如学术住宿或追求正式的大学程序. SHARPP倡导者可以提供有关这些过程可能是什么样子的信息,并可以陪同幸存者参加会议, 面试, 和听证会.

从性暴力或关系暴力等创伤性事件中幸存下来会影响我们生活的许多方面, including academic success.

如果幸存者发现他们在跟上课程方面有困难,SHARPP可能会提供帮助, 为考试学习, or completing assignments on time. SHARPP can coordinate with the Dean of Students to request a Dean's Letter. This is a general letter that communicates a student is experiencing challenging circumstances, without identifying what happened. 通过信件, professors will be asked to give consideration to students in their coursework, 但重要的是要知道,这并不能成为缺勤或迟交作业的借口. 这封信的目的是在对学生学业成绩影响最小的情况下,帮助幸存者恢复健康. After the letters have been sent, 鼓励学生直接与他们的教授合作,以解决他们的个人需求.

While every survivor’s story is different, 在整个UNH和沿海社区有许多资源可以帮助个人愈合过程. SHARPP对人际暴力的关注为社区提供了倡导者,他们意识到幸存者可以获得的许多资源可能有人想要利用. 倡导者可以帮助人们联系到他们需要的资源,但可能还没有意识到.