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By MC3 Crishanda UnderlandNAVSTA Everett Public A� airs

Officials from local school districts met with Naval Station Everett Commanding Officer Capt. Tom Mascolo, Executive Officer Cmdr. Daniel Limberg, and School Liaison Officer Jason Gooding for the Strategic Transition Response Team (STRT) April 27.

Officials that participated in the meeting were; Todd Christensen, principal of Sunnyside Elementary School; Dr. Michael Mack,

Executive Director of Human Services, Lakewood School; Jason Gooding, NSEís School Liaison Officer; Dr. Gary Cohn, superin-tendent of Everett public schools; Becky Bellback, intervention spe-cialist of Everett Public Works; Ed Aylesworth, principal of Trafton Elementary School; and Donna Harris, ombudsman for Carrier Strike Group 9 (CSG 9), a par-ent from the Lake Stevens school district.

The main purpose was to estab-lish the beginnings of a partner-ship between the Navy and the

school districts for the sake of the children of service members.

According to Gooding, being in the military affects all family members, especially the children. It can be very stressful when the service member is deployed or when they move to a new com-mand, which puts a military child in a new school environment every few years.

“Having a good education is one of the most important things a person can have,”said Mascolo.

One of the goals of this partner-ship between NAVSTA Everett and

STRT is to help ease the transition for children who are placed in a new school in the middle of the year, transferring their records in a timely manner, and to be there for the children when they need someone to talk to when needed, said Gooding.

Military children also benefit from specialized services for tran-sitional students when applying to colleges and finding funding.

In addition to academics, the base is working to involve schools in a mustering program coordinat-ed with the Emergency Operation

Command. The program would assist

dependents during natural disas-ters and determine ways to set up care for children when parents can’t pick them up due to emer-gencies that may prevent them from leaving the base.

“The first strategic transition response team gathering was a positive step in the formation of what I hope to become a sustain-able partnership between com-mand, local school districts, and military families,” said Gooding.

Everett Navy partners with local schools

By MC1 Sonja ChambersNPASE Det. NW

Naval Station Everett recognized Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) with an awareness event at the base’s Grand Vista Ballroom April 29.

Jennifer Husman, the sex-ual assault response coor-dinator for Everett’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) program, said resources are in place to assist victims of sexual violence.

“We help victims find resources to aid them in their recovery,” Husman said. “We let them know what their rights are, get them the proper medical treatment and we support them through the entire investigative and legal pro-cess. We help from the time the case is reported until either the case is legally dis-posed of or the victim no longer needs our support.”

Husman has had a dis-play about the program at various locations on base during SAAM. The display included t-shirts decorated by victims of sexual assault who received helped from the Everett SAPR program. It also contained differ-ent statistics about sexual assault in the Navy.

According to the fis-cal year (FY) 2009 Report on Sexual Assault in the Military released to Congress, the Navy had 558 reports of sexual assault in FY 09, including 405 unre-stricted and 153 restricted reports. Restricted reports allow victims of sexual assault to confidentially disclose the crime to spe-cifically designated indi-viduals and receive medical treatment and counseling without triggering the offi-

cial investigative process. Unrestricted reports initiate an official investigation of the crime.

Husman said her 56 trained advocates on base work with command sup-port to help victims.

Dusty Olson, the advo-cate coordinator for the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse, spoke to the group about how she had heard on the radio the Department of Defense’s public service announcement for SAAM

highlighting the theme “Hurt’s one. Affects all...Preventing sexual assault is everyone’s duty.”

“That really represents a culture shift with the mil-itary to not only address sexual assault, but to do it in such a public way in the community at large,” Olson said. “To say that we know that this is an issue, and we’re going to stand up against it, is phenomenal.”

Coming from a mili-tary family, Olson said she understands that this topic

is not always discussed out in the open.

“For the leadership of the military to openly talk about this issue, is a culture shift for the military,” Olson said. “To know that this is an issue that this command actively wants to address, that SAPR is a program they actively support, is really beneficial to the community. Coming here is just a further indica-tion of the way that we can cooperate as a community-based program with your military based program.”

Everett shines light on sexual assault

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