I (unshockingly) passed the background check! Now I've got a lot to do before I can volunteer for RAINN's online hotline. It's a total of 40 hours of training, stretching all the way into February. Here's what I have to do next:
1) 10-hour online tutorial about rape and sexual assault
2) 10-hour online training program specifically about the Online Hotline
3) 14-hour in-person training which will be held on February 2-3, 2008.
4) 6-hours of supervision
It all sounds so intense and probably very uncomfortable. But y'know what? I'm excited! It feels good to have a goal with clearly laid out steps to achieve it. I'm going to start this weekend. Relevant updates to follow.
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Cool. You sound pretty serious about this. I wonder, how do you know that the person sending you messages won't be lying?
Well Geoff, that's not exactly how I'm looking at the situation. I believe the instances of false reporting of a sex-related crime are way over-reported by the media and just because a handful of people need attention so badly that they would lie, doesn't mean that everyone else's real reports are invalidated.
Not only that, but if they need the attention badly enough to lie about it, then I think it's quite a good charitable effort to give them some attention.
Way to go. Proof of good humanity: you getting going on this.
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