This document (from the NSVRC) provides information on campuses that have implemented SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner)/SART (sexual assault response team) models at their school. It provides more information and resources on how your campus can implement a SANE/SART.
Author: Fatima Avellan
Campus sexual assault: suggested policies and procedures from the AAUP
Campus Sexual Assault: Suggested Policies and Procedures is a report from the American Association of University Professors outlines: the problem and consequences of campus sexual assault, the laws related to protect students from gender violence, how to develop strong policies and procedures, and the responsibility of faculty members in addressing the issue. Read about the approaches in ending campus sexual violence and how faculty members can support.
Guide for discussing healthy sexuality
For Sexual Assault Awareness Month in 2012, the NSVRC (National Sexual Violence Resource Center) provided a guide and practical tools for advocates, counselors, and prevention educators to discuss healthy sexuality. Click here to work with your community and implement programs on healthy sexuality as a form of sexual violence prevention.
Community Oriented Policing – Stalking
This guide from the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services to help community law enforcement entities understand and address stalking in their campuses.
Community Oriented Policing – Domestic Violence
This guide from the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services was developed to help community law enforcement entities understand and address domestic violence on their campuses.
Minimum Standards for Creating a Coordinated Community Response
The Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA), and CALCASA’s National Campus Advisory Board developed guidelines and standards to implement a Coordinated Community Response Team.
This three page document emphasizes how the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 included a provision stating that grant funds could be used to “support improved coordination among campus administrators, campus security personnel, and local law enforcement to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus”.
Read through these standards of CCR to guide schools in creating their own CCR teams based on the needs of their campus.
University of Minnesota’s Administrative Procedure in Responding to Stalking, Sexual and Dating Violence
The University of Minnesota provides procedures to follow when members of their community (administrators, students, faculty, and staff) notice signs of sexual violence on their campus.
Read the University of Minnesota administrative procedure lays out specific details on how each department of their community is to respond to an incident of sexual assault. The university provides information on responding to survivors, the result of reporting to certain offices, and resources to provide survivors.
Tools for measurement in community assessments
In continuation with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) ‘s fact sheet on community assessment, this document summarizes key measurement tools that can be used in assessment work. In the similar vein of thought, “it is important determining which type of measure you use that will give you the riches information for the questions you are asking.”
Click below to review a summary of key assessment methods.
Fact sheet on community assessments
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center released a fact sheet on community assessments as part of the National Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative Toolkit to support the growth of sexual assault services within multi-service programs.
Click below to have an overview of the toolkit and learn more about conducting community assessments.
Dear Colleague Letter on Retaliation – April 2013
In this Dear Colleague Letter released in April 2013, the Office for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Education wanted to issue a letter with a sole purpose of clarifying the basic principles of retaliation law and describe OCR’s methods of enforcement.