Volunteer With Us

As a volunteer, you will assist individuals at police stations, offering advocacy and support for those seeking restraining orders and helping them navigate through a difficult and often overwhelming process.

Volunteers in this role provide essential support during hospital examinations, offering comfort, information, and advocacy to survivors, helping them feel supported during their journey of healing.

Strangulation and Smothering Response Team is comprised of a Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE), a confidential victim advocate and law enforcement. Upon reporting a strangulation and/or smothering assault, victims shall be advised of their right to accept all, or any portion of, SSRT services as soon as possible.

SSRT Activation Criteria: The SSRT can respond to any reported cases of strangulation and/or smothering which meets the following criteria:

1. The victim describes being strangled and/or smothered;

2. The victim consents to the medical forensic examination and is willing to be seen at a hospital Emergency Department; and

3. The incident occurred within the past five (5) days and/or if the victim exhibits continued visible signs or symptoms of strangulation or smothering injury.

Anyone who survives a strangulation and/or smothering assault will be afforded access to SSRT services, including a medical forensic examination performed by a qualified FNE.

To utilize the services of the SSRT you would go to your local emergency department or law enforcement agency within 5 days of the incident and/or if you exhibit continued signs or symptoms of strangulation and/or smothering