{"id":672,"date":"2023-05-16T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/?page_id=672"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:08:22","slug":"help-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/support\/advocacy-center\/help-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Helping someone can be a frightening experience, but it is important for you to know what to do to help someone in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help a friend, these are steps you can take: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Believe them. Statements such as \u201cI believe you\u201d and \u201cIt wasn\u2019t your fault\u201d can be extremely helpful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Make sure they feel safe in their current location.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Listen and be available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Don\u2019t judge or blame your friend for what happened.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Encourage action, but allow your friend to decide what actions to take.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Encourage your friend to seek medical attention, but don’t force them to do so. Making choices helps your friend to regain control lost during the assault.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. If they\u2019d like to speak to someone confidentially, students can call a confidential advocate at 507.452.4440. Or, encourage them to call the Advocacy Center of Winona at 507.452.4453 any time, any day.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Be patient. Healing from a sexual assault takes time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Consider getting help for yourself. Supporting a friend can be stressful. You can use mental health resources such as WSU Counseling Services as well.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Remember, sexual violence is never the survivor’s fault!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \n OASIS Advocacy Center\n <\/div>\n
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    Gildemeister 110<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Office Hours <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Mon-Wed: 10am-3pm (walk-ins)
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    \n WSU Confidential Advocate\n <\/div>\n
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    WSU@advocacywinona.org<\/a><\/p>\n

    507.452.4440<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    A confidential advocate is available Mon-Thurs from 8:30am-4:30pm.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    507.452.4453<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Always free & confidential whenever you need help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WSU encourages you to help friends who have been victims of sexual assault and provides some helpful steps to take while doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":585,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-672","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-equity","tag-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/672\/revisions\/1076"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}