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National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (2018-2020) 

This project assess the untested sexual assault kit backlog in the City of Austin. The city was awarded a 3-year grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance enlisted the services of IDVSA. The goals of this project are to engage multi-disciplinary partners to improve service delivery and prevent future backlogs, and create a trauma-informed notification protocol for notifying victims of the results of their sexual assault kit.

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  • Noël Busch-Armendariz
  • Shetal Vohra-Gupta

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