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I would like to to thank StriveDB 
for making my job easier. Truthfully,

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as an executive director who has to follow those 
numbers and has to stay on top of that and to

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be able to connect departments uh within your 
agency, I think has has really helped make our

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job a lot easier. Hands down would definitely 
do it again. Um because it saves at least and

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I feel for the clinicians too. I do I it has 
been a timesaver but it has it's been a real

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time saver for me as well. There's been a huge 
difference. We were beyond terrified getting

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a new database because you know it's new. 
Anything new is scary but I would say thanks

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to you guys for making it not as scary cuz I 
I would not want to have any other database.

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My name is Kim Stark and I'm the executive 
director of the Rape Crisis Center of Central

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New Mexico and Albuquerque SANE Collaborative. 
It's always crazy. It's non-stop. You know,

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because we're the largest rape crisis center in 
New Mexico and because there's so much crime in

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Albuquerque, you know, we go we go 90 to 
nothing. like the last 5 days we had 15

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cases that we had to do that came in for medical 
accompiment. So it is really crazy busy. Well,

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we were pretty fortunate because I know a lot 
of rape crisis centers use spreadsheets. So we

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didn't have spreadsheets. You know, we had a 
database. It just didn't do the amount of work

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that StriveDB does for us. It we were still 
having to, you know, add numbers up. You know,

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we didn't have where we could just hit a button 
and it would generate a report. Being able to to

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tie those calls to survivors, being able to track 
how many how many calls you have, being able to

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track the hours that the volunteers have worked, 
you know, being able to track the advocacies,

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I think are all going to be really important. I 
mean, it does it does make it a lot easier to be

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able to hit a button and and it just generate the 
information that you needed for that report. So,

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you aren't having to go dig and find, you know, 
how many continuing clients did you have? You

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know, it's nice to be able to do that, you know, 
and it helps with VOCA because I know there's a

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lot of people that have to do VOCA as well. That 
one's a little harder and a little trickier, I

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think, on the reporting, but it is nice to be able 
to have all that data in one place. It it makes

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my job a lot easier for the reporting because the 
reports can are so customized to what we need. It

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also helps in tracking serial rapist. You know, if 
you have a serial rapist that like we've got some

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cases where there's some similarities, you know, 
let's say that um he writes a particular thing on

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their skin. You know, we can go in and we can do a 
search for the wording that was used on their skin

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and see how many cases are connected to that. 
And when you're talking to law enforcement in

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those SAR meetings, you can say, "Hey, this is not 
the only case. You know, we have this guy in the

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database more than once. We did have a trafficking 
a a sex trafficker that we presented in September

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that came back around in January and law 
enforcement were familiar with that name because

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of what we had told them about it and um they were 
able to get actually they got a conviction and and

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and uh which is great because he was trafficking 
children. We were so used to the old system that

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we were like oh we're not going to be able to find 
everything. Um and so that was like some of the

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hesitancy. The transition itself um wasn't as bad 
as I had anticipated. What we've found helpful for

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our department was we would have a meeting um once 
a week just for about half hour to an hour and

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just kind of any updates that have come through 
we would show um or if somebody was confused on

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an area we would show them. But as I said, it was 
pretty intuitive and we just encouraged people to

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look around and to just kind of, you know, try 
to open things and and try them out. At first,

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it was, you know, change is always hard. Um, 
but once we got kind of got through that first

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initial couple weeks, um, people were uh did seem 
to really like it, did seem to make comments about

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especially like the scheduling and different 
thing. It was it was so much easier than our

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previous uh database. and um and now that they 
know how to do it, it's a lot faster for them.

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The notes are faster. My name is Sophia. Um 
I'm currently the volunteer program director

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with the Rape Crisis Center. I started off as 
a case manager as well, so I do have an idea

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of how like I got to see our original database. I 
got to see our new database um from both sides. I

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got to do case management on both of them and 
also volunteer on both of them as well. Coming

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from the case management side now to the volunteer 
side. It's been helpful to see that our volunteers

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don't have access to a lot of client information 
which has been very helpful as well. There's

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it's like two different sides of the database 
which I like is they have their one, you know,

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side of it and then I also have my side of it. 
Even though they're not seeing client information,

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it's very helpful that they're able to log in and 
enter stuff because they still have access to like

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entering the client's name. And once they enter 
the client's name, I'm able to on my end pull that

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and add it to the client's chart. With the past 
database, our numbers were all over the place.

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Now with the new database, they're able to kind 
of keep track of the numbers a little bit bit more

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easier as well. You guys have been really helpful 
as far as support. You know, like when we reached

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out, you've um been very uh responsive and um 
helped us to kind of adjust what we needed to or

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or tell people where they needed to go. And once 
once that was done, it's it's been very smooth

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sailing. Well, I do this because I think that no 
survivor should ever have to go through this by

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theirel. I can't imagine having someone that was 
sexually assaulted, adult, child. You know, our

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our youngest victim was 10 months old last year 
and our oldest was like 98. So, it runs the gamut,

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but I can't imagine anyone coming forward and 
having to go through all the steps that it takes,

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you know, from getting the courage to finally 
call the hotline to going in and getting a sexual

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assault forensic medical exam to all the if you 
have to have a protective order or if you have

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to have any kind of case management, you know, 
if you have to have any of your medical bills

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paid because you received injuries, you know, and 
then if you want to report to law enforcement,

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then having to report to law enforcement 
alone. then if it goes to court, having to

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go to court alone. You know, I just can't imagine 
making someone go through that by theirel. So,

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I think that's why I keep doing it. And I think 
it's a grassroots movement to end sexual violence.

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Working with with you guys made it 
a lot easier for me. Truthfully,

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everybody I I promise everybody loves it. 
I mean, it's it's an adjustment because

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anytimes you're time you're learning something 
new, obviously you've got that learning curve,

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but once you figure it out and you can see 
how versatile it is, it really does help.