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September 19, 2023
Best Practice Recommendations for
Sexual Assault Response Teams
 The Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of Crime Victim Services and the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) have released a compilation of best practice recommendations for SARTs. With excellent collaboration from multidisciplinary subject matter experts around the state, and consideration of existing national resources, the best practice recommendations provide a roadmap to ensure a consistent victim-centered, offender-focused response to sexual assault resulting in a safer Wisconsin for all.
A SART can minimize the potential for re-traumatization to a survivor when engaging with the criminal justice system by initiating a victim-centered, collaborative response to provide advocacy, support, information, options, and resources. Victim-centered SARTs maintain continuous training and discussion on cultural diversity and how discrimination impacts the lives of victims and creates unique barriers to reporting and prosecuting sexual assault crimes. The new compilation of best practice recommendations provides guidance on how teams can prioritize the safety, privacy, self-determination, and wellbeing of every victim. It also recognizes that there may be a difference between obtaining a criminal conviction and what the victim defines as having achieved justice.
The compilation of best practice recommendations for Sexual Assault Response Team was funded by a grant awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.
Best Practices Recommendations for Sexual Assault Response Teams.pdf
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