SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE TEAM
Better response starts together.
The 19th Judicial Circuit Sexual Assault Response Team brings professionals together to strengthen coordinated, survivor-centered responses to sexual violence.
SART helps agencies communicate, understand each other’s roles, identify gaps, and improve the response survivors receive across our four-county service area.
WHAT IS SART?
A coordinated community response.
A Sexual Assault Response Team, or SART, is a multidisciplinary group of professionals who work together to improve the community’s response to sexual assault.
Law Enforcement
Law enforcement partners contribute investigative experience and help strengthen coordination across responding agencies.
Medical + Forensic
Healthcare professionals and forensic nurses bring medical, forensic, and patient-care expertise to the response.
Survivor Advocacy
Advocates help keep survivor needs, rights, options, and support at the center of the coordinated response.
Community Partners
Additional professionals and agencies contribute specialized knowledge, resources, and perspectives.
WHY COLLABORATION MATTERS
No single agency responds alone.
Survivors may interact with multiple systems following sexual violence. Those systems work best when professionals understand each other’s responsibilities, communicate effectively, and identify opportunities to improve the overall response.
SART creates a space for those conversations to happen before, during, and after challenges arise.
Build stronger communication across disciplines.
Recognize gaps, challenges, and emerging needs.
Improve practices and multidisciplinary response.
SAAP + SART
SAAP has a seat at the table.
The Sexual Assault Assistance Program participates in SART as the local certified rape crisis program serving Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Okeechobee Counties.
SAAP brings the advocacy perspective into multidisciplinary conversations and helps ensure survivor support, options, confidentiality, and access to services remain part of the response.
19TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
SART across four counties.
SART collaboration takes place throughout the four counties served by SAAP and Florida’s 19th Judicial Circuit.
SART POCKET GUIDES
Quick-reference tools for professionals.
These pocket-size guides are designed to give law enforcement and nursing professionals a simple reference they can keep accessible during their work.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
SART LEO Pocket Guide
A compact quick-reference guide created for law enforcement professionals responding to sexual assault.
MEDICAL + FORENSIC
SART RN Pocket Guide
A compact quick-reference guide created for nurses and medical professionals who may encounter patients following sexual violence.
WORKING TOGETHER
SART is built on multidisciplinary participation.
Different disciplines bring different expertise to the table. The goal is not for every agency to do the same job — it is for each partner to understand how their role fits into the larger response.
CONNECT WITH SART
Want to learn more or join an upcoming SART?
Professionals and community partners interested in learning more about the 19th Judicial Circuit SART or participating in an upcoming meeting are encouraged to reach out.
Include your name, organization, professional role, county, and the best way to contact you.
SART INFORMATION
Get connected.
Request more information or ask to be added to communication about an upcoming SART meeting.
Request SART Information SART coordinationBE BELIEVED HERE
Survivors remain at the center.
Confidential support from SAAP is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.