Full Text of HR0253 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Sexual assault is a violent crime and has | 3 | | devastating safety and health implications for every person in | 4 | | Illinois, whether they are a victim, survivor, family member, | 5 | | loved one, friend, neighbor, or co-worker of a victim; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The nation's largest anti-sexual violence | 7 | | organization, the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network | 8 | | (RAINN) found that one out of every six American women has been | 9 | | the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault in her | 10 | | lifetime, and one in every 33 American men have experienced an | 11 | | attempted or completed sexual assault in his lifetime; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Criminal Justice Information | 13 | | Authority and the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault | 14 | | (ICASA) found that more than 37,000 victims of sexual violence | 15 | | received services from an ICASA rape crisis center in Illinois | 16 | | between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2015; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The data from ICASA shows that an average of | 18 | | 10,200 victims were served annually; 60 percent of these | 19 | | victims were adults and 40 percent were children aged 17 years | 20 | | or younger; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, In addition, ICASA's rape crisis hotline |
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| 1 | | responded to more than 42,000 requests from anonymous | 2 | | individuals for crisis intervention service during the period | 3 | | of 2010 through 2015 and averaged 8,500 visits per year; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, End Violence Against Women International has | 5 | | developed a public awareness campaign entitled Start by | 6 | | Believing, a message that, in part, confronts the reality that | 7 | | many victims do not get the support they need when they do | 8 | | report a crime; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, It is important for the State of Illinois to | 10 | | support this message and victims of sexual assault so that they | 11 | | may heal; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 13 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 14 | | we declare April 3, 2019 as "Start by Believing Day" in the | 15 | | State of Illinois.
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