I am excited to share CALCASA’s 2014 Legislative Agenda! Each year, we sponsor and support important legislation on a cross-section of issues that support our mission to serve survivors of sexual assault. This year we are pleased to be sponsoring four pieces of legislation, and supporting a fifth piece, that are extremely important to us. [...]

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
11 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time
(2 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern)

In February 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report, Intimate Partner Violence in the United States — 2010, describing the prevalence and context of intimate partner violence(IPV) victimization using data from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). Findings discuss IPV victimization, [...]

Yesterday, the White House announced funding in the FY 2015 Budget directed to eliminating the rape kit backlog and assisting in the prosecution of sexual assault cases. The Budget provides $35 million for a new grant program to inventory and test rape kits, develop “cold case” units to pursue new investigative leads, and support victims [...]

On Tuesday August 27, 2013 Alexis Marbach from the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence led a training for California RPE grantees. The training, entitled “Logic Models for Prevention Programming II” explored the basics of creating logic models for prevention programming. The materials from that training can be found here:

PowerPoint slides

Training [...]

July 23, 2013
2:00 - 3:30 pm

Hosts: Abby Sims and David Lee, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Presenter: Alexis Marbach, MPH, Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

This web conference provided the basics on developing logic models for prevention programs. Attending this web conference (or watching a recording) is required for the August Logic Model Training (see below [...]