This year marked 20 years since April was first recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and while there has been significant progress has been made, there still remains a great deal of work to be done.
Continue ReadingThe Toolkit for Preventing Interpersonal Violence among Students Studying Abroad is designed to increase the capacity of colleges to prevent interpersonal violence among students who participate in study abroad programs.
Continue ReadingThe Toolkit for Preventing Retaliation After Sexual Assault within the College Context is designed to increase the capacity of colleges to prevent students from experiencing retaliation related to sexual assault reports.
Continue ReadingSexual assaults can have a tremendous impact on the mental and physical health of the women that experience them, making it very important that campuses support survivors to enable their success.
Continue ReadingTip sheet for institutions of higher education to enhance their culturally specific services for victim/survivors of sexual violence, who are international students from Asia.
Continue ReadingBecause the youth are the future of our society, we must do what is necessary to ensure that they are not experiencing undue violence in relationships.
Continue ReadingThe last three months of the year are among the busiest on college campuses–even when there’s a pandemic. Midterms quickly give way to final exams. Homecoming celebrations push homework aside for many students in the early fall, and a significant number of undergraduate and graduate students prepare to walk across the stage and into a new world. With so much happening at the institutional and individual levels, it’s easy to forget that October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month or that Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness Months are both in the first half of the new year. However, the busyness of campus activities should not force the business of creating a culture of safety for students, and domestic violence out of the picture. Two out of five college women have experienced some violent and abusive dating behaviors, and more than one in five women report physical violence. Cohabitation continues to rise among young adults between the ages of 18-24, with nearly one in ten living with an unmarried partner based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. These numbers do not take into account students with separate dorm rooms, apartments, or homes who effectively cohabitate by “sleeping over,” […]
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide institutions of higher education with information, strategies, and resources to develop a coordinated community response to addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS) on campus.
Continue ReadingThe research reported here was designed to identify the range and scope of policies and practices related to the investigation and adjudication of sexual assault on college campuses in the U.S. The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) with the assistance of an expert panel of advisory board members has
documented and classified the current landscape (the breadth and differences) of campus approaches to investigations and adjudication of sexual assault.
OVW TA provider, IACP is pleased to announce the publication of a new resource for law enforcement and others who interview victims, the “Successful Trauma Informed Victim Interviewing” document. This document demonstrates how trauma-informed interview techniques can be used to reframe interview questions that may be perceived by a victim as blaming them for their actions in a manner that helps victims retrieve memories from a traumatic event and assists law enforcement in gathering more information while making the victim feel more supported. VIEW DOCUMENT