Positions at Rappannock Council Against Sexual Assault

The Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault is seeking licensed therapists, case managers, and crisis responders to work with survivors of sexual assault/abuse and other traumatic crimes.

Licensed Therapist Positions:
Required: Licensed in Virginia (LPC, LCSW, LMFT)
Preferred: Board Certification in Art Therapy or other expressive therapy field, two years of experience, Experience in Expressive Therapy, CBT, CPT, ITR

These positions are part-time contract with the potential for more hours.

Case Manager Position:
Required: BA or BS in a Human Serivces Field, 2 years experience in working within a mental health field, truama victims, case management services
Preferred: MA in a Human Services field, bi-lingual in spanish-english, 2 years experience with victims of sexually violent crimes, sexual abuse, crisis response, advocacy
This position is full-time with benefits

Please email resume or requests for information to: Beth Parker, Director of Victims Services - counseling@rcasa.org 540-371-5502 or fax: 540-371-9803

Crisis Response Staff:
Preferred: BA or BS in Human Services Field, experience in crisis/hotline work, experience in working with trauma victims, data tracking and input,
other duties: data tracking, medical accompaniment, office duties

Please email resume or requests for information to: Janet Ison, Crisis Services Coordinator - janet@rcasa.org 540-371-5502 or fax: 540-371-9803

2nd Annual Poker Run to support sexual assault survivors

Annual Poker Run Fundraiser www.rcasa.org events
DATE: Saturday June 6, 2009

Check-in: 10:00AM – 4:00PM (last out 11:00AM)

Start: Dougherty’s Tavern

(Rt 1-2055 Jefferson Davis Hwy)

Finish: Mainstreet Bar & Grill (Rt 610)



$20 Per Person - Rider or

$10 Per Person - Passenger



50/50 raffle, high/low hand prizes -

donated from Jack Brown's Tattoo Revival, Dougherty's Tavern, Amy's, Tim's II, Firkin & Bulldog, Applebees



Contact Nicole Oxley 703-615-2105 or president@rcasa.org

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Anti-Racism Training

Anti-Racism Training in Charlottesville – Today was an interesting day. This group is addressing institutional racism, the negative effect of indifference to social justice and the power of racial memory. Of course, all of us are present because we want to be and so they are (or are they) just preaching to the choir. And they are only promoting change for the perceived power-people. They are not addressing the powers in the minority groups that benefit from the current status of inequality and don’t want to lose their position. Both will have to want the change and it frequently feels like the power people in both groups don’t really want this change. The people who want the change are really the hapless people in the middle, who really have no power. How to express this to the group, without starting an issue, without the minority group feeling blame? It’s the dynamic that is now created. Some people always benefit from groups being oppressed, some of the oppressed actually. If their cause is gone, who would they serve? What would their role be? Do they really want to give up their role as cause fighters and be just like everyone else? Somehow I don’t think so. I think its equal pressure form the powers of both worlds to keep conflict and segregation going. We remain the in-betweens just talking to each other and g. And where do we take this?

Coercive Control

“Coercive Control” by Evan Stark
What do we experience as providers: compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, headaches, sleeplessness, agitation, nightmares, hopelessness, and anger? This affects our ability to connect with people, put up barriers to those we are trying to help.
Questions:
1. What happened to her/him?
2. What are the barriers to follow through with treatment?
The retreat was nice, although I remain separated from the group as usual. It was interesting to meet people who work in this field. My presentations were uninteresting I think. I did get food responses from the second one overall. But I remained tense about the whole thing overall even after a couple of days.

Annual Retreat for the VSDVAA

Teen Dating Violence Prevention – this is more about intervention, programs in school in school about what to do if…
Analysis of case of a girl going to a party. Prevention would really have been parents checking up on where the child is going. This would really have prevented the scene. Prevention needs to start with us, our generation as parents teaching children from the beginning with consistent messages between school and home. This is the gap, a decrease in parenting skills. This is what needs to be addressed.
1. Perceived threat – ongoing
2. Management of daily activities – interrupts problem solving and decision making.
3. Altered identity
4. Entrapment
5. Disempowerment

Program Management Training Notes

Program Management Training in Williamsburg – presentations only somewhat interesting. I think I am burned out on these types of presentations. It always seems like the same old stuff. And do people, the attendees really change their programs to incorporate the new stuff they learn or is it just attending for the sake of attending?
Adverse childhood experiences relate to higher levels of depression for women, increased correlation with smoking and lung cancer, teen pregnancies, higher rates of sexual partners and therefore higher likelihood of STD’s and HIV. 4 or more adverse experiences spike the correlation of all above.
A presenter described a sexual assault as having a bad day. Amazing. Can someone really think trauma from violence is really just a bad day? That people/victims just go and say: “Oh well, bad day.” It shocked everyone in the room who heard her say it. She minimizes the very trauma she is serving in her job. But perhaps this is not her issue, just happened to get a job monitoring grants to serve sexual assault victims. I came to this field in a round-about way myself. So who knows?