Cynthia is a probation officer and has experience from working directly with offenders.” “We continue to attend trainings and read books that focus on offender behavior. “Our office has 39 years of experience that we draw from, that translates into 39 years of sexual assault stories that have guided this training and informed the behaviors we look for,” Kramer-Harrison said. When identifying behaviors, the team draws on their experience. Prevention, historically, has put the onus on the victim but new research is looking at offender behavior.”īar staff is told to be on the lookout for things like people who may be aggressively flirting and “not taking ‘no’ for an answer,” Craft said. “We start with information about the program, look at the numbers of sexual assaults, look at local numbers,” said Craft. In addition to bartenders, the training includes other restaurant staff members About 35 have been trained so far. Currently there are three bars participating in the program, and the county hopes to expand the program to other bars in the area. The Ulster County Crime Victims Assistance Unit launched its program in September in the college town of New Paltz. The program, the first of its kind in New York, provides training for bar staff and other employees with a goal of preventing sex assaults. “We started talking about ‘Is there a better way to do this? And what would that look like?’” “We thought, ‘Gee that’s a lot of pressure to put on someone who is in trouble and also bartenders can have very deep lines of people looking to purchase drinks so if we’re looking at bartenders to intervene for people, that’s a lot of variables,” Craft said. The two started talking about it with others at the office and decided they needed to do more. Learn Moreįor more information, contact Kramer-Harrison or call 845.340.3445 “We started seeing on social media that there was a trend toward these ‘Angel Shots’ … basically a drink that would identify to the bartender if requested by a victim, that they were in need of some kind of help, whether it was a cab or getting out of some kind of situation,” said Kramer-Harrison. The new program got started last fall, after the county’s Crime Victims Assistance staff, Sarah Kramer-Harrison and Cynthia Craft, began hearing about potential victims asking waiters or bartenders for a special drink that signified a cry for assistance. is training bar staff to help prevent sexual assaultĪ new sexual assault prevention program aimed primarily at the college student population has taken root in Ulster County, N.Y., which saw about 300 calls for sexual assault in 2015. Legislative Presentations, Reports & Toolkits.Committees, State Associations & Affiliates.
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