For crisis intervention or mental distress: Provincial Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line:
1-888-429-8167

For Confidential support to post-secondary students in Nova Scotia:
Good2Talk: 1-833-292-3698
or text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program for the Halifax area:
902-425-0122

Get toll-free numbers for other Nova Scotia regions

 

EMERGENCY CONTACT
If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

Get Help Now

Latin American Male

I am probably the only one, as I have mentioned, that has had sex ed, but it’s so important for people to understand that something as simple as sex education of what’s a good touch…

How we have been brought up is entirely different and we won’t be comfortable sharing it to any other people other than our culture. I don’t know, it’ll all depend on the individual though. I…

It [sexual assault] is a kind of a thing where you are much free to speak about it either to your mom or your sister, but not really to the entire family, you know what…

If a person brings up disclosing a certain incident and [doesn’t want] the investigation, even if the person who discloses it wants it or not, it has to be investigated. That’s what I think. Because…

The university should take on-the-spot action. There was […] an incident here which happened four months back. The [unclear] rumoring around. […]. There wasn’t any strict action taken, or any measures taken against him. But…

Participant 1: Even when we make it known to people, if people come up with stories about how they were assaulted or whatever, sometimes they do not believe them. So what is the point of…

[In terms of] what Participant 2 just said about this [discussion about the sexual assault policy] being in class – what about some people in that class who may be going through that trauma? And…

I mean the advisor, they should have the high awareness about cultural difference- about LGBT and things like that – so when they give advice it will be, you know, relevant and useful. Just like…

The words [in the policy] are very hard to understand, and it breaks down every – almost every difficult word. […]. Just like she said, it’s a bit bulky and no one is going to…

Okay so basically [if a friend came to me for advice following a sexual assault], well, I would appreciate the fact that you came to talk to me, but just to be real I don’t…

1 5 6 7 11