The District of Columbia’s Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is a multidisciplinary group composed of agencies and organizations that provide services to victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault with the purpose of providing a coordinated response to sexual assault in our community. The team meets bi-monthly as a full team and on alternating months a sub-committee meets and conducts sexual assault case reviews.

The SART charter includes representatives from the following agencies and organizations:

• D.C. Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
• Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
• Department of Forensic Sciences 
• D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiners
• United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
• United States Attorney’s Office Victim Witness Assistance Unit
• Metropolitan Police Department’s Victim Services Branch
• Metropolitan Police Department 
• Network for Victim Recovery of D.C.
• The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
• United States Park Police
• D.C. Rape Crisis Center
• Howard University
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center
• Children’s National Medical Center
• D.C. Child and Family Services Agency
• Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
• Safe Shores -The DC Children’s Advocacy Center
• D.C. Coalition to End Sexual Violence
• The D.C. Victim Hotline

The Mission of the D.C. SART is to:

• Ensure consistent, sensitive services for adults and youths over the age of 13 who have been sexually assaulted;
• Ensure a victim-centered, trauma-informed and offender-focused system to address sexual assault;
• Identify and remedy gaps in services;
• Increase engagement in the criminal justice system;
• Improve forensic evidence collection and processing of results; and
• Improve investigations and increase the ability to prosecute cases.