Funded Programs Sample Clauses

Funded Programs. With 50 funded programs providing services in 72 sites, NYSDOH-funded Rape Crisis and Sexual Violence Prevention (RCSVPP) programs offer a variety of activities designed to prevent rape and sexual assault. The programs ensure that quality crisis intervention and counseling services, as well as a full range of indicated medical, forensic and support services, are available to victims of rape and sexual assault. RCSVP programs ensure the provision of crisis intervention services to help eliminate the long- term effects that rape can have on an individual. These services include: • 24-hour crisis hotline services • client counseling • medical and criminal justice accompaniment and advocacy • referral for supports and services and confidentiality assurances to meet the needs of victims of rape and sexual assault • training of professionals, including the medical and criminal justice professions • sexual assault prevention and education programs. In 2009-2010, RCSVP programs responded to 27,802 hotline contacts; provided an array of direct services (including hotline, counseling, advocacy and accompaniment) to more than 30,000 clients; and, provided counseling to 37,226 individuals, including 9,731 who were reported as new clients. RCSVP programs also provided 4,001 multi-session educational programs to 58,834 individuals. In addition to rape crisis programs, beginning in 2010, the Department funded two Centers of Excellence, the NYS Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA) and NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault (the Alliance). These Centers provide training, technical assistance and expertise to NYSDOH-funded RCSVP programs and partner with the NYSDOH and other state agencies to improve direct services for victims of rape/sexual assault, and develop and implement primary prevention strategies that include sexual violence prevention and/or community mobilization activities. In November 2006, the CDC implemented a new requirement that Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) funds that support rape crisis program contracts be used exclusively to support primary prevention education and the operation of hotlines, instead of the secondary or tertiary interventions to victims or one time outreach activities that many RCSVP programs previously provided to schools and community organizations. This led to a complete restructuring of the way prevention education services were delivered in New York State. The NYSDOH facilitated training and technical assistance for the RC...