sexual assault

The Women’s Center of Waukesha offers an explanation of rape kits without involving politics.

Singer and songwriter Chris Porterfield and his band Field Report took the poems from five survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault and created an EP. It will debut at a benefit concert Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Cooperage in Milwaukee.

Local advocates and survivors of child abuse, Scott Kinderman and Christina Trinidad, will be honored at the Walk Together Milwaukee event with the Unspoken Hero Award for their work in supporting child abuse and neglect survivors.

Milwaukee's police chief says enhancements are being made to a domestic violence "high-risk team."

Sharain Anderson, vice president of Well Community at Aurora Health Care and Candace Sanchez, this year’s Thrive Award Honoree, speak on the event and what it celebrates.

Dr. Rachel Lovell, assistant professor of Criminology and director of the Criminology Research Center at Cleveland State University, explains the impacts of untested rape kits.

The Hmong American Women's Association, or HAWA, is a Milwaukee-based non-profit organization that was founded in 1993 by a group of 13 Hmong women. HAWA provides culturally specific programming and resources for survivors and people experiencing sexual assault and domestic violence.

This year’s Rise & Thrive program from the LOTUS Legal Clinic is helping survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking heal through poetry and music. Rise & Thrive's inaugural resident Marielle Allschwang worked with survivors to create the four-song digital EP, "Somewhere to Swim."

Dylan Farrow is an author, mother, activist, and the survivor at the heart of the Emmy-nominated docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. She'll be this year's keynote speaker for The Women's Center annual EmPower Luncheon. Ahead of the event, Farrow joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to discuss her advocacy work.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law two bills aimed at helping sexual assault victims and survivors.