Eleana Butler: Hello, my name is Eleana Butler. I'm the Executive Director of Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico. I am located in Farmington and we have offices in Farmington and Gallup serving all of San Juan County, McKinley County, and Rio Arriba County up to the Hickory Apache Nation.

We've been providing essential services in our community for the past 21 years. I'd like to take a moment to share with you the services we provide to survivors of sexual assault and their families. Some of you may be familiar with our program called SANE, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners. These are medical forensic exams provided to survivors of sexual assault within a certain time frame of when that assault occurred.

If the individual is under 12, then we have three days to complete an acute exam. If they're over the age of 13, we have five days. And we have a variety of other types of exams and services that we can provide to survivors depending on the situation. So we always encourage individuals to call no matter when the assault occurred and we can talk with them from there.

The person that would talk to the survivor or family member or friend will be an advocate first. Our rape crisis advocates are trained to work with survivors and their families around what happened during the assault and what services are available to them, whether it was yesterday or whether it happened six months to a year to 20 years ago.

Part of the referrals that we provide include referrals into our therapy department. The therapists at SAS are highly trained in trauma and understand the circumstances that an individual will have experienced related to a sexual assault. That department also sees individuals regardless of when the assault occurred, as long as that person is over the age of 13.

If they're under 13, our advocates and therapists can refer that child to another organization that will serve them for therapy. We also do a lot of community education in all of the communities I mentioned, San Juan, McKinley, Rio Arriba counties, and all the small areas and chapters in between.

That can look like tabling events at health fairs, at chapter houses, at other organization's events, regardless of what that looks like, because sexual assault and trauma can occur to anyone, and we want to make sure that we're reaching the entire community. We also provide primary prevention programs, primarily in the schools.

We have three primary prevention programs that we work with the students in schools, from all ages. There's an early childhood prevention program called Care for Kids. We also have a Healthy Relationships program geared for junior high students, and we have a Safe Dates and Ask, Listen, Respect program for junior high and high school students.

If you're interested in contacting us or talking to us more about the services we provide, having us come talk to your organization or department, we are happy to do that. Our office number is 505-325-2805. You can also take a look at us on our website, sasnwnm.org. Thank you for taking the time to learn about our services and feel free to contact us if you have further questions.