Carl Marlinga: “I worked with Senator Debbie Stabenow to get a grant for a…”

“And so you have to have specialists trained to be able to work with the victims and their families to. To try to not re victimize them again by putting them through the process and in like manner. Then I worked with Senator Debbie Stabenow to get a grant for a thing called the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program. which basically provides an alternate place for rape victims to go instead of going to a crowded emergency room and having to wait because you might not be the most life threatening condition there, although emotionally, your world has just collapsed.” (01:31–01:39)

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