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Connecticut advocates detail survivor supports and say Paid Leave eases access to care
Summary
Leaders from the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence and the Rowan Center describe crisis hotlines, trauma therapy and prevention programs, and say Connecticut Paid Leave’s 12-day safe-leave benefit helps survivors attend exams, therapy and court without losing pay or jobs.
Nancy Barrow interviewed Beth Hamilton, Executive Director of the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence, and Sharon Walker Epps, Chief Executive Officer of the Rowan Center, about survivor services and prevention programs in Connecticut.
Hamilton described the Alliance’s statewide role: "We have nine community-based sexual assault crisis programs," she said, and the coalition passes through state and federal grants to member centers, operates a team of attorneys who represent survivors in civil and criminal court, and staffs postconviction advocates in supervision units. Hamilton said the Alliance also focuses on culture change and long-term support for…
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