Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program [SHARP]
The Army’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention [SHARP] Program is the Army’s integrated, proactive effort to end sexual harassment and sexual assault within our ranks. Sexual harassment and sexual assault have no place in the Army. If you have been the victim of sexual harassment or sexual assault, you have a voice, you have rights, and we’re here to help.
The Army’s SHARP Program also:
- Permeates the Army structure from the Pentagon down to the individual Soldier level.
- Has full-time staff at the brigade level and higher.
- Promotes cultural change across the Army, with a vision toward a culture of discipline and respect in which Soldiers intervene in sexual harassment and sexual assault to protect one another.
- Includes a comprehensive effort to educate leaders and Soldiers about sexual harassment and sexual assault.
- Employs a concrete training program that teaches Soldiers to be alert to serial offender tactics, to intervene to stop incidents and disrupt offenders, and where and how to seek help.
- Provides commanders with the essential resources, education, and training they need to succeed in bringing an end to sexual harassment and sexual assault in the Army.
We have certified Sexual Assault Response Coordinators [SARCs] and Victim Advocates [VAs] available 24/7 to help with reporting, and support prevention, training, and awareness efforts.
If you need help now:
Text: 55-247 [inside the U.S.]
More Helpful Resources:
- National Sexual Assault Hotline:
- Center for Sex Offender Management
- Men Can Stop Rape
- National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence [military resources]
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
- Rape & Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police & Medical Attention, 1992-2000, Bureau of Justice Statistics, US DoJ
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Sexual Assault Response Team
- Sexual Assault State Coalitions
*No official U.S. Army or Department of Defense endorsement implied by use of external links
U.S. Army SHARP Tracks & Visualizes Initiative Effectiveness with Spider Impact
About US Army SHARP
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The U.S. Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention is responsible for the Army's sexual harassment prevention efforts. The Army G-1 SHARP Program Office directs the Army's efforts in the prevention of and response to sexual harassment, sexual assault, and associated retaliatory behaviors. It integrates Army SHARP policy and ensures effective communications with internal and external stakeholders.
As a Commanders' program, leaders are required to deliver effective prevention initiatives and ensure compliance with response and reporting requirements for allegations of sexual violence and retaliatory behaviors. The SHARP Program is comprised of approximately 3,000 credentialed Program Managers, Sexual Assault Response Coordinators, Victim Advocates, and Trainers around the world who are available to help leaders implement their programs.
Learn how the
U.S. Army SHARP uses strategic management software
from Spider Strategies to track and visualize initiative effectiveness.
Challenge
The Army SHARP program office needed a solution to communicate and track results across all Army Commands and installations worldwide. Making unit-specific sexual harassment and assault data readily available for analysis and presentation to Army Commanders and other staff agencies was a fundamental requirement.
An additional challenge was finding a solution that could display and report the sexual harassment and assault data so it could be viewed and analyzed by leadership at Army installations - as well as within actual chains of commands.
Solution
The U.S. Army SHARP Program office implemented Spider Impact - which powers the Army Strategic Management System [SMS]. Spider Impact facilitates metrics construction, data importation, and dashboard displays for the Army's units.
There are currently more than 400 SHARP metrics and nearly a dozen SHARP common operating pictures and custom reports available through the SHARP-SMS deployment of Spider Impact. Using both location and unit chain of command coding, dashboards have been created displaying numbers of assaults by time period, by report date, gender, age, rank and location demographics - as well as workload of the staff in managing cases.
Benefits
With the implementation of Spider Strategies’ software, the U.S. Army leadership has a highly effective tool for tracking and visualizing the effectiveness of its initiatives and metrics within a unified organization-wide solution.
Spider Impact allows valuable time to be spent analyzing data for timely decision-making, rather than collecting the data itself.
The use of location and unit chain of command coding makes it possible for sexual harassment and assaults to be analyzed by specific Army units regardless of the location of subordinate organizations. This unit and location-specific case and demographic data are powerful tools for the local leadership in developing strategies to address and reduce incidents at their unique unit or installation with their specific case history.
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