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Oregon Strangulation Response Community Survey 2026

Oregon has made significant progress in developing a coordinated response to strangulation. Since 2021, more than 1,350 strangulation forensic evidence kit (SKIT) exams have been completed in Oregon, and communities across the state have developed new approaches to law enforcement response, medical care, advocacy, investigation, and prosecution.

But statewide implementation looks different from community to community.

This assessment is intended to learn from communities across Oregon about what is working, what are the challenges, and what support is needed to strengthen the response to near-fatal and non-fatal strangulation.

We are particularly interested in understanding differences between urban, rural, and frontier communities and learning from communities that have developed successful approaches. Information gathered in this survey will be presented on October 29th as part of the Strangulation Investigation and Intervention webinar (Register here).

Please do not include personally identifying information about survivors or specific cases.

Estimated completion time: 7–10 minutes.
1.What type of community do you represent?
2.What county or counties do you primarily serve?
3.What is your primary professional role?
4.How would you describe your community's current strangulation response?
5.What are the greatest strengths of your community's strangulation response? Check up to 3.
6.What is the one thing your community has done that has significantly improved the response to strangulation?
7.What are the greatest barriers to providing an effective strangulation response to your community? Select up to 5.
8.Which part of the strangulation response is currently the greatest challenge in your community? Choose 1.
9.How does geography affect your community's ability to provide a coordinated strangulation response?
10.What geographic/resource barriers affect your response? Select all that apply.
11.Please describe how geography affects your response (optional).
12.How consistently do the following disciplines coordinate when a strangulation case is identified?
Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Usually
Almost always
Law enforcement and Advocacy
Law enforcement and Prosecution
Law enforcement and Medical
Medical and Advocacy
Medical and Law enforcement
Advocacy and Prosecution
13.What training would most improve your community's strangulation response? Select up to 3.
14.What training format would be most useful? Select up to 2.
15.If Oregon could provide your community with three resources to strengthen strangulation response, what would be most valuable? Select 3.
16.What is the one change that would make the biggest difference in your community's strangulation response?
17.Is there a successful practice, innovation, or resource from your community that you think other Oregon communities should know about?
18.If you could tell Oregon policymakers, funders, or statewide leaders one thing about strangulation response, what would you want them to understand?