Excerpt from: Star News Online (click for full article)
The National Center for Victims of Crime reports that North Carolina residents with disabilities experience sexual assault at a rate five times greater than a non-disabled person.
Jessica Green, advocate for victims with disabilities at the Rape Crisis Center of Coastal Horizons Center Inc., said she has her hands full on a daily basis.
"No two days are the same, but I believe the state is catching on to the need for these types of services," Green said.
Serving both New Hanover and Brunswick counties, Green provides direct services to victims as well as sexual assault awareness education throughout the community.
Green implements an eight-week curriculum titled “Protecting Me” which can be adapted for audiences from school-age children to adults with any kind of disability. Green was recently asked to be a guest instructor at the Basic Law Enforcement Training in which she asked students to participate in scenarios designed to prepare them for victim interaction in a sexual assault investigation.
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