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Stalking Resources for Campus Professionals

October 21, 2021

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These resources from SPARC (Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center can help campus professionals better understand how to identify and respond to incidences of stalking on campus. Campus Stalking Fact Sheet Campus Stalking Infographic Stalking Incident and Behavior Log Response Strategies for College Campuses

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Comparing Commonly Used Survey Platforms for Collecting Your Campus Climate Survey Data

September 9, 2021

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Schools interested in conducting student climate surveys on sexual misconduct have a lot of decisions to make. For a web-based survey, you will need to determine what survey platform to use to administer it. Web-based surveys are commonly used because they can quickly reach large numbers of students via email or text message, and the survey platforms typically have built-in data management and analysis systems. Advancements in mobile data collection have resulted in many survey platforms offerin...

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Integrating Victim Services Into Policy

September 3, 2021

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Committing to provide victim services on campus extends beyond the advocacy itself. A conduct policy is an excellent place to educate student survivors about their privacy rights, the resources, and options available to them and how to access these services. Se extiende la deferisa pm el oomprnmiso de dar servioios a las vicLimas en el campus. Una buena polftica de conducta es un medio excelente para educar a los estudiantes sobrevrivientes sobre sus derechos de privacidad, los recursos y las op...

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Victim Services and Conduct Policy Assessment Tool

September 3, 2021

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This Assessment Tool is intended to be used after reviewing Integrating Victim Services into Conduct Policies Guide. This case study can be used to assess how integrated victim services is in your institutions’ current domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS) conduct policy. “Se pretende utilizar esta Herramienta de Evaluación tras revisar la Guía de Políticas de Conducta sobre su Integración en los Servicios a la Víctima. Este caso de estudio puede ser utilizado para evaluar el n...

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Supporting Latin@ Student Survivors of Domestic and Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking

August 31, 2021

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Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking impact individuals across all races, ethnicities, socio-economic levels, genders, sexual orientation, and levels of education. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the impact on different populations and explore ways to improve prevention and response efforts, while taking into consideration different factors that can impact diverse student populations. Data published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indi...

Resources to Assist with Compliance with Federal Guidelines, including the Clery Act and Title IX

Leadership/Administrators Sexual Assault

New Title IX resources from OCR

July 22, 2021

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Message from Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – Department of Education: We wanted to share two newly released Title IX resources with you, which we hope you can pass along to anybody you think will be interested. First, OCR issued the following resource: Questions and Answers on the Title IX Regulations on Sexual Harassment (July 2021) and a related Appendix. The Q&A clarifies how OCR interprets schools’ existing obligations under the 2020 amendments to the Department’s Title IX regulati...

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Improving Climate Survey Data through Higher Response Rates and Sample Representativeness

July 20, 2021

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Conducting a student climate survey on sexual misconduct can have many benefits to institutions of higher education. Climate survey data can help schools develop prevention programs, allocate victims’ assistance resources, and modify policies in a data-informed way, based on the actual experiences and opinions of students. However, to be meaningful, the data must reflect the entire student body at a given school. Many schools have found that only a small proportion of students who are invited to...

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Planning and Implementing Your Campus Climate Survey within the OVW Campus Program Funding Cycle

July 20, 2021

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Campus climate surveys can be used to track sexual misconduct prevalence rates or to evaluate the success of campus- wide victim services and prevention programs. Climate surveys can also be used to identify programming and service needs on campus. For this reason, many institutions want to use a climate survey as a needs assessment in Year 1 of their Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Campus Program projects. However, to allow for thoughtful planning and to ensure the success of the survey,...

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Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS) Implementation Guide

July 20, 2021

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This document contains key resources for schools of higher education interested in using the Qualtrics-programmed version of the Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS) survey instrument to conduct a student survey. These resources and the programmed Qualtrics survey file are available free of charge to any institution of higher education that has a Qualtrics license and is interested in conducting a student survey to document the school’s prevalence of sexual assault, other forms of misc...

Resources to Help Draft Campus Policies on Sexual Assault

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INTEGRATING VICTIM SERVICES INTO POLICY

June 17, 2021

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Committing to provide victim services on campus extends beyond the advocacy itself. A conduct policy is an excellent place to educate student survivors about their privacy rights, the resources, and options available to them and how to access these services. Se extiende la deferisa pm el oomprnmiso de dar servioios a las vicLimas en el campus. Una buena polftica de conducta es un medio excelente para educar a los estudiantes sobrevrivientes sobre sus derechos de privacidad, los recursos y las op...