Sexual Violence Task Force of Tampa Bay

We need your VOICE!! Please contact your legislators and in particular, Senate leadership, to support our legislation with HB 251/SB 488. This template email is for Senate President Mike Haridopolos--whose support we desperately need. Please feel free to use it for any and all legislators to contact, and also to personalize it as you see fit. just make sure to edit names and the proper house (House Representative vs. Senator, etc.) In the House, we will be moving next to the Appropriations Co...

Thank you so much for your support and participation in Take Back the Night on April 17, 2010. The event was a huge success!  We impacted many lives and helped to transform suffering into freedom. Together, we raised our voices to honor many journeys of healing and spread awareness about sexual violence in our community!

Coverage for Take Back the Night was on two different news channels! Click below to see these stories of hope and impact.

Victim Advocate Services Bill:

HB- 799 By: Bernard Senate Bill:1302 By: Storms

Requires that each postsecondary educational institution provide an advocate to assist students who are victims of violent crime. Requires that the advocate complete a specified number of hours in victim advocacy training and enlist the assistance of public and voluntary health, education, welfare, and rehabilitation ag...

**Major props to SVTF of Tampa Bay members, Becca & Kelly, for this wonderful article in St. Pete Times!**

St. Pete Times (Nov. 11, 2009)- Google serves as a path to information, a vehicle for answers, a portal for research. Yet Sabrina Sadler, a sexual assault victim, sought so much more when she logged on in the spring of 2007.

Sadler, then a student at Sacramento State University in the California capital, responded to the cris...