Webinars
Safe and Secure: Providing Services for Incarcerated Youth Survivors
This webinar is the last in a three-part series of webinars on providing services to survivors of sexual abuse in juvenile detention.
“Safe and Secure: Providing Services for Incarcerated Youth Survivors” introduces advocates to exciting new opportunities to help incarcerated youth who have been sexually abused. Children and adolescents in detention suffer sexual abuse and harassment at alarming rates, and the effects of this abuse can last a lifetime. The good news is that the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards offer guidance for corrections facilities and pave the way for rape crisis counselors and other advocates who care about children to provide life-saving help to this underserved population.
During the webinar, experts in the fields of sexual abuse and youth detention discuss the range of services addressed in the PREA standards. Presenters review some of the challenges of providing care to this population, and to working in detention settings more broadly. Attendees learn ways to adapt crisis interventions to these settings, as well as other strategies to offer the community standard of care to youth detainees. This webinar will feature advocates who have worked in youth facilities and a survivor who has experienced this abuse.
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