Two BYU student clubs worked together on a service project to comfort domestic and sexual assault victims.
BYU’s Pro-life Club and College Republicans worked together on a service project to tie blankets for survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse.
Victims receive the blankets during medical exams at the hospital.
Teal Christianson is a sexual assault prevention coordinator with the Refuge, formerly known as the Center for Women and Children in Crisis. She was leading the project.
"We talked about healthy relationships, and then we have an awesome group of people back here who are making blankets for survivors of sexual assault. So we take these blankets to the hospital, and we're there with victims for their medical exams," Christianson said.
Christianson gave a presentation on healthy relationships, including warning signs and ways to help friends in potentially harmful situations.
“Our job is to make sure that those doors and windows, or whatever you want to call it, of communication stay open, so they feel like they can talk to you, and they feel like they can talk to other people about their experience,” Christianson said.
Lauren Hess attended the service project with her friend, and said that she learned about resources she had not known about before.
“I like that these blankets get taken in to people to help them out and help them feel a little bit more safe. So hopefully this little turtle blanket will help somebody,” she said.
The Refuge provides blankets across central Utah with funding from Light the World Giving Machines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
To support the project or find help, visit therefugeutah.org