**Disclaimer: Two members of the SAFER board are employees with Sexual Health Innovations. SAFER is not affiliated with Sexual Health Innovations. Our advertising of this focus group does not equal an endorsement of Sexual Health Innovations or its projects.**

From Sexual Health Innovations:

Sexual Health Innovations, a non-profit dedicated to creating technology that improves sexual health and wellbeing, is creating a new sexual assault reporting system for college campuses. The primary goal of the system, Callisto, is to improve the reporting experience and to give survivors more agency in the reporting process.

Before we start building the system, we want to make sure we create something that will truly work for the people that will need it: college sexual assault survivors. To do this, we are holding a series of focus group for young women and men (ages 18-30) that experienced sexual assault  or non-consensual sexual contact while in college. The next focus group will meet in New York City on Tuesday, July 1st, from 6:30-9pm. It will be informal and confidential–we want to discuss the journey of processing an assault, to learn about participants’ ideal resolution and reporting systems, and to receive input into our proposed system. The focus group will be led by members of the Sexual Health Innovation’s team, Jess Ladd, a college sexual assault survivor, and Tracey Vitchers. Both Jess and Tracey are sexual violence prevention activists.

If you are interested in joining for this or future meetings of this focus group, email Jess at and we will send you details about the confidential location ASAP.

Please keep in mind that we need to keep this focus group a safe space for everyone involved and upholding confidentiality for participants will be of the utmost importance. Hostile or aggressive behavior will not be tolerated and will result in your immediate removal.