Pueblo Rape Crisis Services

WHAT CAN YOU DO | ADVOCACY | SUPPORTING SURVIVORS | MEN'S PLEDGE

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
— Winston Churchill

Dear Friend:

Pueblo Rape Crisis Services serves your local community in a unique and necessary way. With the hard work of volunteer advocates, Rape Crisis offers advocacy and intervention to victims of sexual assault. We work closely with the local hospitals and local law enforcement, but our advocates work for the victims. Pueblo Rape Crisis provides advocates who are well trained in victim rights, sensitivity, rape kit procedure, crisis intervention and grief reactions.

Pueblo Rape Crisis Services currently provides a number of free services to the community, including:

volunteer victim advocates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. These volunteers provide immediate and well-trained care and advocacy to victims in hospital emergency rooms and doctors’ offices. We receive approximately 15 to 30 immediate crisis calls each month.
a 24-hour Helpline manned by well-trained volunteers. This line offers specialized help to victims of both recent trauma and prior assaults.
specialized and multi-faceted training to all victim advocates. Each volunteer must undergo a 56-hour training program before serving as a victim advocate or manning the Helpline.
follow-up services to connect victims with any legal, financial and therapeutic resources they need. If victims choose to pursue prosecution, our office offers assistance to the victim during the investigative and judicial processes. Regardless of a victim’s choice, we address each victim’s medical and emotional needs.
our advocacy and follow-up services are geared towards victims, their family members and their significant others.

While Pueblo Rape Crisis is very proud of the essential work we perform in the Pueblo area, we believe our work should be expanded. We successfully address the crisis period of rape victims, but we seek to do more on both sides of this problem. We hope to offer a more vigorous prevention program to the many different audiences in Pueblo -- from young women to women in domestic violence situations; from college students to men, who are also victims of sexual assault. On the other side, we hope to offer more intervention programs such as more thorough 1-on-1 crisis counseling and group sessions for both victims and their loved ones.

To both continue and expand our mission, we need your support. With your funding, we can grow our advocate pool through increased recruitment efforts and training opportunities. A larger volunteer team will decrease the burnout that comes with this difficult job. Your funding can help us to grow both our prevention and intervention programs, which enables us to serve more people and broader segments of the population. (Pueblo Rape Crisis Services, Inc. is a 501 c3, non-profit organization. Your contribution to Pueblo Rape Crisis is tax deductible.)

Please see the enclosed card for all the ways you can contribute to Pueblo Rape Crisis. We thank you in advance on behalf of all the people we serve.

Thank you,
Renee Elwell
Board President

P.S. Sexual assault is not uncommon in Colorado, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 17 men are victims of sexual assault. Your tax-deductible contribution to Pueblo Rape Crisis will have a direct impact on your local community, providing immediate victim advocacy, prevention programs and longer-term crisis intervention.

CLICK HERE FOR A DONOR CARD

WHAT CAN YOU DO \| ADVOCACY \| SUPPORTING SURVIVORS \| MEN'S PLEDGE “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill CLICK HERE FOR A DONOR CARD Dear Friend: Pueblo Rape Crisis Services serves your local community in a unique and necessary way. With the hard work of volunteer advocates, Rape Crisis offers advocacy and intervention to victims of sexual assault. We work closely with the local hospitals and local law enforcement, but our advocates work for the victims. Pueblo Rape Crisis provides advocates who are well trained in victim rights, sensitivity, rape kit procedure, crisis intervention and grief reactions. Pueblo Rape Crisis Services currently provides a number of free services to the community, including: volunteer victim advocates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. These volunteers provide immediate and well-trained care and advocacy to victims in hospital emergency rooms and doctors’ offices. We receive approximately 15 to 30 immediate crisis calls each month. a 24-hour Helpline manned by well-trained volunteers. This line offers specialized help to victims of both recent trauma and prior assaults. specialized and multi-faceted training to all victim advocates. Each volunteer must undergo a 56-hour training program before serving as a victim advocate or manning the Helpline. follow-up services to connect victims with any legal, financial and therapeutic resources they need. If victims choose to pursue prosecution, our office offers assistance to the victim during the investigative and judicial processes. Regardless of a victim’s choice, we address each victim’s medical and emotional needs. our advocacy and follow-up services are geared towards victims, their family members and their significant others. While Pueblo Rape Crisis is very proud of the essential work we perform in the Pueblo area, we believe our work should be expanded. We successfully address the crisis period of rape victims, but we seek to do more on both sides of this problem. We hope to offer a more vigorous prevention program to the many different audiences in Pueblo -- from young women to women in domestic violence situations; from college students to men, who are also victims of sexual assault. On the other side, we hope to offer more intervention programs such as more thorough 1-on-1 crisis counseling and group sessions for both victims and their loved ones. To both continue and expand our mission, we need your support. With your funding, we can grow our advocate pool through increased recruitment efforts and training opportunities. A larger volunteer team will decrease the burnout that comes with this difficult job. Your funding can help us to grow both our prevention and intervention programs, which enables us to serve more people and broader segments of the population. (Pueblo Rape Crisis Services, Inc. is a 501 c3, non-profit organization. Your contribution to Pueblo Rape Crisis is tax deductible.) Please see the enclosed card for all the ways you can contribute to Pueblo Rape Crisis. We thank you in advance on behalf of all the people we serve. Thank you, Renee Elwell Board President P.S. Sexual assault is not uncommon in Colorado, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 17 men are victims of sexual assault. Your tax-deductible contribution to Pueblo Rape Crisis will have a direct impact on your local community, providing immediate victim advocacy, prevention programs and longer-term crisis intervention. CLICK HERE FOR A DONOR CARD


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