CrossRoads Sexual Assault Response & Resource Center

05/27/2026

You can help us fill an upcoming vacancy among our medical staff. Know a pediatrician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant who would love to work part time for a Child Advocacy Center? Details in the comment below.

05/23/2026

05/06/2026

When community members recognize the work that we do by dropping off sweet treats, it makes our day! !

05/06/2026

At Woodlawn Middle School reinforcing what this poster on their wall says. Teaching internet safety is a high priority at CrossRoads. Groomers often use online access to recruit victims. We are giving these students the tools to recognize and report red flags.

05/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who made our event so special. And to student journalist Kate Gray who captured its essence so well in this story.

On April 29, over 200 attendees filled the Ramada Inn Convention Center for CrossRoads’ annual Denim Day dinner and fashion show. The event was primarily a fundraiser for CrossRoads Sexual Assault Response & Resource Center, with sponsors, raffles and on-site donations encouraged, bu...

04/30/2026

A powerful night as we gathered to honor the work of creating safety for our community. Our sponsors, our families, our staff and community attendees all came together to create space for hope and healing.

04/23/2026

We are less than a week away from Denim Day. Here is how it started:

In 1992, an 18-year old girl is picked up by her married 45-year old driving instructor for her very first lesson. He takes her to an isolated road, pulls her out of the car, wrestles her out of one leg of her jeans and forcefully r**es her. Threatened with death if she tells anyone, he makes her drive the car home. Later that night she tells her parents, and they help and support her to press charges. The perpetrator is arrested and prosecuted. He is convicted of r**e and sentenced to jail.

He appeals the sentence. The case makes it all the way to the Italian Supreme Court. Within a matter of days the case against the driving instructor is overturned, dismissed, and the perpetrator released. In a statement by the Chief Judge, he argued, “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer r**e but consensual sex.”

Enraged by the verdict, within a matter of hours the women in the Italian Parliament launched into immediate action and protested by wearing jeans to work. This call to action motivated and emboldened others to do the same. The first Denim Day in the US was in April 1999, and has continued every year since. Join us April 29th with wearing denim in support of victims everywhere and in opposition to harmful victim-blaming myths.

04/20/2026

Teal ribbons promote awareness about sexual assault. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.