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:
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
• 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
• George Washington University
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center
The mission of the D.C. SART is to:
• Ensure consistent, sensitive services for adults who have been sexually assaulted;
• 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 prosecutability of cases.
The DC SART accomplishes this by:
• Upholding national and District standards of practice to ensure consistent responses to all adults who have been sexually assaulted;
• Developing and maintaining professional relationships through respectful communication and cross-disciplinary training among team members;
• Facilitating a case review process to identify and improve services; and
• Providing outreach and education to the community regarding sexual assault.
For more information on the D.C. SART please visit http://dcsart.org/
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