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This blog looks back at the missteps of America’s Next Top Model, how reality TV has and hasn’t progressed, and where we hope the reality TV landscape goes from here to protect everyone on set.

The Respect Together family experienced a difficult loss. Maureen Powers, a powerhouse in the fields of women’s rights and racial equity, died January 4, 2026. She was 77.  For decades, Maureen was a champion for justice, dignity, and safety for all survivors of sexual violence. She was the CEO of YWCA Lancaster from 1987 to her retirement in 2014 (27 years), where she led the organization with vision and heart, advancing

This April, Respect Together’s national division, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), is celebrating an incredible milestone: 25 years of the national Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign. Since 2001, NSVRC has led the national SAAM campaign through creating free awareness-raising and prevention education materials to help communities across the country engage in Sexual

When survivors reach out for help, they are taking one of the bravest steps of their lives. They are choosing healing. They are choosing safety. They are trusting that someone will be there to answer.  But this year’s proposed Pennsylvania state budget sends a different message.  A $0 increase is unacceptable.  For years, rape crisis centers across our Commonwealth

“Every person that works at a rape crisis center makes a conscious choice to show up to work each day, believe survivors, and make their community a safer place. Resilience is a constant thread in their work and the lives of survivors. No matter what, these people do not give up. To me, being resilient

While the Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect (PCAR) continues to advocate fiercely for state funding, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is tracking a troubling national trend: widespread underfunding for victim services and prevention.     Jennifer Grove, NSVRC’s Chief Operating Officer, has spent nearly three decades in this movement and says the financial strain

For more than 50 years, Victims Resource Center has been a lifeline for survivors of sexual violence in Luzerne, Wyoming, and Carbon Counties. With three offices spread across a mix of urban and rural communities, the center has always promised that “when a survivor needs help, someone will answer.”   But right now, that promise

Survivors of sexual abuse, assault, and harassment deserve to be heard, believed, and supported — but right now, the organizations that work to support survivors and advance prevention are at risk. Funding challenges across Pennsylvania and the nation threaten essential services for sexual assault survivors and the programs that make this work possible. Respect Together