SHARP

02/07/2024

Free Youth Self-Defense Class!
Youth Ages 11 to 18 💛

Class led by Rubie and Carlos Navarro of Navarro's Martial Arts Academy

In this hands-on session, you will learn how to

☑️ Walk with awareness of surroundings and people

☑️ Creating distance

☑️ React quickly and get to safety

Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
4pm - 6pm
The Women’s Building
Audre Lorde Room
3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA 94110

REGISTRATION REQUIRED, FOOD PROVIDED
tinyurl.com/YSD2024

Co-Sponsored by

San Francisco Youth Commission

Project Survive

Community Youth Center

01/18/2023

Company Description: The roots of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) go back to 1964, when the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in theaters, and automobile showrooms that discriminated against African...

01/13/2023

WE ARE HIRING A PROGRAM ASSISTANT! Please share widely.

https://bit.ly/SHARP-ProgramAssistant

The Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP)

The SHARP office is the gender-based violence prevention division of the SF Human Rights Commission. We work to ensure that survivors of sexual violence are believed, responded to, and treated with dignity when navigating city government to voice their experience of sexual violence. We do this work by centering the experiences of those most impacted by sexual violence and prioritizing community-led solutions towards healing and justice.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
The SHARP Office is seeking to hire a Program Assistant to interact directly with individual survivors of gender-based violence, their advocates and community organizations. The Program Assistant will be responsible for managing intake scheduling and record keeping and will work with SHARP staff to help navigate survivors through government and community processes. This position, along with other SHARP staff, will have an important opportunity to lead policy initiatives and drive conversations on accountability and responsiveness, with the potential to have national influence on institutional and societal responses to sexual assault and harassment, and the resulting trauma. This position will be supervised by the Director of SHARP and will receive guidance from community-based organizations working to end gender-based violence.

Yearly Salary Range: $71,448 - $86,892

For more information on Duties, Desired Qualifications, and application process, please visit:
https://bit.ly/SHARP-ProgramAssistant

Deadline is Feb 1st.

Company Description: The roots of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) go back to 1964, when the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in theaters, and automobile showrooms that discriminated against African...

11/18/2022

Youth Town Hall on Sexual Violence and Gender-Based Violence!

This Youth Town Hall will focus on the needs of youth/students at SFUSD regarding safety and healing from all forms of sexual violence. If you have any questions please contact [email protected]

Date: Thursday Dec 1, 2022

Time: 4-6pm, Dinner provided

Location: S. F. City Hall, Room 201 (1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, CA 94102)

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/SFYouth22

06/02/2022

SHARP is concerned with the verdict of the The Johnny Depp - Amber Heard trial. In addition to the deep misunderstanding of the cycles of violence within abusive relationships, this verdict dangerously sets a legal precedent to silence survivors from speaking out. The verdict sends a message to survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) that if they share their experience they not only risk not being believed but will be shut out of their communities and blamed for the violence they experience.

At SHARP we believe all survivors. The livestreaming of this trial has forced many of us to relive the violence we have survived and we encourage all survivors to take care of themselves. Please reach out to your local Domestic Violence Shelter or R**e Crisis Center. In the San Francisco Bay Area you can reach out to:

- Woman Inc. (877) 384-3578

- SFWAR 415-647-7273

- CUAV

- La Casa de las Madres

- Asian Women’s Shelter

- National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (9233)

- RAINN - National Sexual Assault Hotline 800-656-4673

Art by frizzkidart in Toronto

Image Description: There is white text in the center of the image that reads "We Believe Survivors" surrounded by a circle of yellow flowers with an overall pink background.

05/19/2022

Dear Community partners. The Human Rights Commission invites you to the Everybody Reads | Beyond the Books Workshop. Great opportunity for youth program leaders looking for culturally reflective books.

Join Everybody Reads for a workshop highlighting culturally affirming and relevant BIPOC books and curriculum - space for the young reader to reimagine themselves, set their goals, and follow their dreams.

In this workshop for service providers and summer educators in San Francisco, you will learn more about how to use the materials in an intentional way that encourages youth in their reading. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everybody-reads-beyond-the-books-workshops-tickets-340002134537

Our first workshop will be held on May 19, at the San Francisco Main Public Library - Creative Center (sfpl.org | 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102). Space is extremely limited for this session.

Our second workshop will be held on May 23 at the historic Bayview Opera House (bvoh.org | 4705 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94124) The training will be limited to 25 participants. Covid protocols will be followed. Boxed lunch will be provided.

Both workshops will be available via Zoom webinar.

Signup details will be linked from this event page soonest.

Please contact us at [email protected] or 415-252-2500 with questions.

Everybody Reads Workshop for Summer Educators

05/13/2022

We wrote a statement in response to the leaked SCOTUS opinion about overturning Roe v. Wade. Read our statement on Medium here and please share widely.

We hope you can join us at the Reproductive Justice March this Saturday (details within article).

https://medium.com//our-body-autonomy-is-being-threatened-take-action-35c6eeebb49c

Art by Micah Bazant

04/07/2022

Please join San Francisco Youth and the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) for a powerful, youth-led Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) webinar-panel! Please spread the word to your networks.

Our Future, Our Voices: A conversation between SF youth on the impacts of gender-based violence
Join us for a deep and vibrant conversation with SF youth on how gender-based violence impacts our lives, changes we are demanding, and the futures we imagine without violence. We invite all youth to join in on the conversation, and for parents, teachers, and providers to listen in on how you can support youth visions.

April 21, 2022
5:30-7pm
Register at bit.ly/OurFutureSAAM2022

This event is sponsored by the Human Rights Commission, the Department on the Status of Women, Mission High School Public Health Pathway Youth Outreach Workers, Chinese Progressive Association, Project SURVIVE, Expect Respect Collaborative, San Francisco Women Against R**e, Trauma Recovery Center, HYPE Center, Community Youth Center of SF.

For more information contact the Office of SHARP at [email protected]
www.sharp-sf.org

11/12/2021

Dear Community, please join us for the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault, Response and Prevention's annual virtual Open House where we will share our accomplishments from the past year and our goals for the future. We will have opening remarks by Director Dr. Sheryl Davis, and guest speakers: Dominique Cowling of CUAV and our Advisory Committee, and Samuel Gray from the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Collective.

Date: Thursday November 18th, 12-1pm
RSVP: bit.ly/OpenHouseSHARP

06/03/2021

Know Your Youth Labor Rights!
Thursday June 10, 2021 @ 1:00pm
Come learn about a young person’s worker’s rights, what a healthy employer relationship looks like, signs of labor exploitation, and what legal remedies are available to protect youth. Justice At Last is a nonprofit law firm that provides free comprehensive legal services to all survivors of human trafficking in the Greater Bay Area and will provide this free training to assist youth, community partners, and service providers better identify labor exploitation, human trafficking, and learn about the legal protections available for youth.

Register at www.tinyurl.com/hypecenter6-10. Feel free to email [email protected] with any questions.

04/30/2021

Hi all! We are having technical difficulties and are not able to post our Live Event with CUAV to our page at the moment. If you are wanting to watch "Healing and Accessibility, a conversation between Dulce Garcia and Dominique Cowling," please join the zoom at bit.ly/CUAV_SHARP

Join Dulce A. Garcia, Policy Director for the Office of SHARP (Sexual Harassment and Assault, Response & Prevention) and Dominique Cowling, Healing Justice Program Manager at CUAV (Community United Against Violence) in a conversation focused on healing and accessibility. The goal of this conversatio...