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FACTSHEET:
Rule For Nonimmigrant Victims Of Human Trafficking And Specified

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has transmitted an interim final rule to the Federal Register that will allow “T” and “U” nonimmigrants to adjust status their status and become lawful permanent residents.

The “T” nonimmigrant status, also known as the “T” visa, was created to provide immigration protection to victims of a severe form of human trafficking. The “U” nonimmigrant status, or “U” visa, is designated for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse because of the crime and who are willing to assist law enforcement and government officials in the investigation of the criminal activity.

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'Know When to Use Your Pausebutton: Sexual Assault is Not a Game’ Poster Campaign

The Alliance created the Pause Button campaign to address the issue of sexual violence among youth in New York City. The Pause Button campaign is a sexual assault awareness-raising poster that targets middle-school boys between 11–13 years old, with the goal of eliciting discussion on how to change attitudes that could contribute to sexual assault perpetration as boys mature.

Visit the Pausebutton section of our site, which contains information for teens and resources for educatorss.

Initial Research

In order to develop an improved understanding of the situations and issues a teenage boy is confronted with, as well as his attitudes, behaviors, daily influences and media preferences, the media project began with a thorough examination of the appropriate research in three key areas, looking in particular at how they relate to the problems of sexual violence:

Research literature on key developmental issues for boys in the target age group
Focus groups involving boys in the target age group across New York State
Review of other anti-sexual campaigns developed by other programs and coalitions across the US and Canada.

[Read the background report (pdf)]

Message Development

In order to assist in the development of the anti-sexual violence messages, the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault contracted The Michael Cohen Group to conduct a multi-phase research project. Phase one of the project examined the context within which boys understand the concept of sexual assault, as well as investigating the types of public service/behavioral messages that resonate with them. [Read the Phase I report (pdf)]

Phase two of the research explored boy's reactions to iterations of sample messages in the interest of refining a final version. The poster designs were developed by Yoe! Studios. [Read the testing report (pdf)] [Read the 2nd round message testing report (pdf)]

Evaluation

In order to evaluate the poster's impact, the Alliance conducted pre-poster and post-poster surveys with youth and a focus group with youth service providers. The results of the survey indicate that the poster is memorable and effective. In the post-poster survey:

Recall of the poster is over 50% for both boys and girls, revealing that the poster definitely made an impression and children remember seeing it.
Of the children who remembered seeing the poster, 91% of boys and 94% of girls said that it made them think about the issue.
There are shifts in children's descriptions of their decision-making styles, and more children would ask someone else what to do in a situation about which they felt uncertain.
The number of boys who say that they stop to think before making a decision rises from 76% to 92%

[Read the sumary of findings (pdf)] [Read the full report (pdf)] [Read the focus group report (pdf)]

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