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2024 Liz Blanc Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator of the Year.

April 23, 2025

Honoring the 2024 Liz Blanc Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator of the Year

Mr. Jason Graham of Training Center Cape May is the Coast Guard’s SARC of the Year.

Lianne Casupang, District 14’s Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and the Coast Guard’s SARC of the Year for 2022, is recognized during a ceremony at the Mark Center in Washington, D.C, May 17, 2022. Pictured from left to right: Lindsay Charles, Coast Guard SAPRR Oversight & Policy Office Chief, Lianne Casupang, and Cmdr. Michael Wolfe, Coast Guard Liaison to the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

May 20, 2022

Living ALOHA: D14 Sexual Assault Response Assault Coordinator receives award

Lianne Casupang named the Coast Guard’s Exceptional SARC for 2022

Allies committed to the Coast Guard’s effort to eliminate harassment and assault have a new resource in their toolkit when responding to a shipmate in distress. The Confide in Another (CIA) card provides actionable next steps to prepare and respond in instances when a servicemember reaches out, looking for support.

April 2, 2021

Care, Inform, Ask: New resource to support victims of assault  

Sexual Assault Prevention, Response and Recovery shares actionable steps

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bluebell, a 100-foot inland buoy tender home-ported in Portland, Ore., stands wearing their service dress blue uniforms in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month April 3, 2013. The master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard, to raise awareness of sexual assault awareness month, requested that all chief petty officers wear their service dress blue uniforms and the Bluebell's crew took the initiative to each wear it. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Fireman Caleb Porter)

March 26, 2021

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month.

This month we discuss what we can do to eliminate sexual violence in our service. 

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Sexual Assault Response Coordinator Shannon Norenburg speaks with Chief Petty Officer Todd Lonergan during a Sexual Assault Response and Prevention meeting April 3, 2013, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The chiefs came together to unite against sexual assault at the academy and had the opportunity to hear from the academy's sexual assault response coordinator and superintendent of the academy. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Diana Honings/RELEASED)

March 4, 2021

Nominations for the 2021 SARC of the Year

Nominations are being accepted for the 2021 Liz Blanc Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) of the Year Award.

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