Business Cares: April 2024

This Month’s Featured Nonprofit:

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and an opportunity to honor the resiliency and healing of survivors while highlighting this very important issue. Throughout the month, we invite you to learn more about this nationwide challenge, but especially as it relates to your local community and what you can do to support the efforts of important organizations like SAVA.

4812 South College Avenue | Fort Collins, CO 80525 | (970) 472-4204 | Fax (970) 674-7023

921 38th Avenue Court | Greeley, CO 80634 | (970) 506-4059

1570 West 1^st Street | Loveland, CO 80537 | (970) 775-2962

24-Hour Rape Crisis Hotline (970) 472-4200 |Toll-free 1-877-352-7273

Violence, especially sexual violence, is one of the most serious public health issues in America today with consequences including serious physical injury, post-traumatic stress syndrome, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and other long-term health problems. The impact of sexual violence permeates into the community through loss of worker productivity, changes in family functionality, lowered academic achievement in youth and young adults, high incarceration rates, and stress on the criminal justice and well-fare systems. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) reports that an estimated 734,630 people were raped (including threatened, attempted, or completed) in the U.S. in 2018, and these are only the incidents reported. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in 2019, in Colorado, there were 105 sexual assault victimizations per 100,000 persons; the rate was 4 times higher for juveniles (264.5) than for adults (59.4). 

The Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center is the only agency in northern Colorado explicitly serving victims of sexual violence and their loved ones through a 3-prong approach.  SAVA provides 4 stand-alone prevention education programs that work to raise awareness and knowledge about sexual violence, increasing support for survivors and creating a safer school culture.  The SAVA team also provides crisis intervention through our advocacy services and long-term healing through a multiple of therapeutic approaches.  SAVA’s Victim Service Coordinators provide medical, legal and personal advocacy as well as referrals and resources based on the individual’s needs of each survivor and/or their loved ones.  Coordinators can assist with Crime Victim Compensation applications and any Victims Rights Violations. SAVA’s clinical team provides several modalities to therapy clients including but not limited to play therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior (TF-CBT).  SAVA strives to reach our vison of ending sexual violence through cultural change by serving the community in a dualistic approach of early prevention education and direct services that impact survivors and their loved ones.

We work to eliminate barriers through creating an inclusive environment where victims are empowered to be the driver of their own solutions and to build resilience. SAVA continues to enhance our efforts of creating an inclusive environment through offering language services for non-English speaking individuals, specialized services for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, male identifying victims, veterans, seniors, those experiencing homelessness and youth. Each victim that accesses SAVA services, regardless of their identities, is met with the opportunity to lead their own journey and use their voice. Clients are encouraged to name their experience and although SAVA staff and volunteers can never truly understand the individual experience of our clients we can offer non-judgment, confidentiality, and the willingness to meet clients wherever they are on their path to healing from sexual violence. Learn More and Donate: https://www.savacenter.org

These local businesses graciously show support for this month’s cause. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center.

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