New Phoenix crisis center will offer a wide range of services

New Life Center, a home violence shelter based mostly within the West Valley, opened its first sexual assault crisis center in Phoenix on Tuesday for victims of rape, sexual violence and human trafficking.

“Unfortunately, sexual violence has no boundaries when we are talking about social economics, genders,” stated Myriah Mhoon, CEO of New Life Center. “This center is truly for anyone and everyone over the age of 18 that has experienced sexual violence, meaning men, women.”

New Life Center obtained a $25,000 grant from the Arizona Republic-sponsored Season for Sharing marketing campaign final year to help the group’s work with home violence survivors.

According to New Life Center, the brand new location will offer assist from advocates who work on behalf of survivors of sexual assault, violence, and human trafficking. Prevention and coaching departments will additionally function on the Sexual Violence Healing Services Center.

A partnership with La Frontera Empact will enable the center to carry on a trauma therapeutic therapist, who will be accessible for behavioral well being wants for 20 to 40 hours per week.

The New Life Center Sexual Violence Healing Services Center will function out of 3826 N. third Street, a standalone constructing in Phoenix with its personal car parking zone.

“Arizona does not have a standalone community-based service provider serving survivors of sexual violence,” stated Mhoon. “If someone wants to go to law enforcement and get an exam, we want to champion and help them get to law enforcement, but if they don’t or if they are not ready, we want to make sure that they have a really comfortable trauma-informed environment that they can come and present at and talk to an advocate or a therapist.”

Data from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network estimates that somebody within the United States is sexually assaulted each 68 seconds.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015, 43.6% of girls and 24.8% of males within the United States have skilled some type of contact with sexual violence of their lifetimes.

Based on these statistics, the New Life Center estimates that 757,000 girls and 420,380 males in Maricopa County have been victims of sexual assault of their lifetime.

“Our research shows that three out of four sexual violence crimes are never reported to the police,” stated Amy Scanlon, outreach director of New Life Center in a assertion.

“With so few sexual assaults being charged, and successfully prosecuted, there leaves a large swatch of survivors who likely never engage with formal systems (police, prosecution, medical, etc.) for services, and this is the population gap that Sexual Violence Healing Services Center aims to address,” Scanlon added.

Scanlon will be managing the Sexual Violence Healing Services Center, which will function with 4 full-time staff.

“There, you can talk to an advocate or we also have also have a therapist on-site to provide services to anyone that has experienced sexual violence and that needs to be believed, needs to be listened to, and needs that person as an advocate to be able to share resources, to make sure that they start the healing journey in a trauma-informed way,” stated Mhoon.