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5 <br />OCRCC has a file of over 56 local mental health clinicians who serve as referral <br />resources for victims who are clients of the Center. These therapists go through an <br />extensive application process to become Center referrals. As a part of that application <br />they are asked about their experience working with victims of sexual violence. A <br />startling 70 percent have less than 5 years of such experience. In addition local <br />resources for training these therapists are virtually non - existent. In the past 3 years <br />there have been no workshops or trainings in Orange County specifically for <br />therapists on working with sexual violence victims. Yet, the literature on recovery <br />from sexual violence states that the recovery process includes both short -term trauma <br />(often requiring crisis intervention) and a long -term reorganization and reorientation <br />process, often requiring long -term clinical mental health intervention. <br />In summation, local data show over 25 percent of reported sexual violence cases of the <br />past 5 years involved child or adolescent victims. Yet one major medical port of entry <br />provides very little support for such victims, no support groups are available for <br />adolescent victims, and local therapists have little experience and lack local resources <br />for training to work with sexual violence victims, <br />While data are not readily available to compare local resources with state and national <br />averages, both state and national data reflect the same large proportions of child <br />victimization Q of 4 girls and 1 of 6 -8 boys). It also is well -known both state and <br />nationally, that mental health care in general is available and accessible to less than 25 <br />percent of the general population. Thus the situation in Orange County is likely no <br />different than throughout the nation. <br />
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