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Self Care and Mental Health This Holiday Season
The holiday season can be an exciting time to gather together with family and friends, but it can also be a stressful time of year for many survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones. Self care is important year-round, but especially during the holiday season, when some survivors experience anxiety, fear, stress, tension, pressure, or fatigue.
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RAINN has released the new PSA, Wait, in collaboration with Smuggler, to show the experience many survivors have while waiting to receive receive a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam, more commonly referred to as a Rape Kit. After someone is sexually assaulted, every minute counts to collect the evidence needed to bring perpetrators to justice. Stay up to date with our policy team's work to ensure survivors don't have to wait.
Learn MoreBarriers to Reporting in Indigenous Communities
Indigenous people in the U.S. face higher rates of sexual violence than the general population, and the majority of these sexual assaults are perpetrated by individuals outside of indigenous communities. During Native American History Month this November, RAINN is looking at some of the barriers to reporting sexual assault that survivors in indigenous communities—which consist of 6.8 million people and hundreds of individual communities—in the U.S. may face if they experience sexual violence.
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