This webpage contains information about the rulemaking efforts on the Violence Against Women Act. It outlines changes that occurred to the Clery Act with the reauthorization of VAWA in 2013. You can find more information here.
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Title IX Fast Facts
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About OVW
Office on Violence Against Women
The mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, is to provide federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program strengthens the response of institutions of higher education to the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking on campuses and enhances collaboration among campuses, local law enforcement, and victim advocacy organizations. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education.
The mission of the United States Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Program is to develop effective culturally- relevant campus-based programming that builds upon strong campus and community partnerships with the goals of strengthening services for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and p犀利士
romoting multifaceted prevention strategies within the campus community. To that end, the Campus Program provides comprehensive, responsive, and well-informed Technical Assistance to campus grantees and other colleges and universities to ensure that survivor-centered responses are holistic, while holding offenders accountable.
About CampusConnect
CampusConnect is a comprehensive online resource center for college stakeholders building prevention programs and responses to sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. It is a centralized resource where administrators, campus and community law enforcement, victim service providers, students, parents and others can find the latest research, policy, technical assistance resources and information on campus related interpersonal violence from a variety of sources including governmental agencies, campus based experts, community service organizations and grassroots groups. The resources available through CampusConnect range from promising practices models to cutting edge tools that can be adapted and used by a variety of groups and individuals to create a cultural change on college campuses.
This website is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Campus Technical Assistance Newsletter
A newsletter created by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Technical Assistance and Resource Project 2nd issue, includes information on the research of security during study abroad, national awareness activities and events, technical assistance (TA) updates, and TA contacts. Click the link to view the newsletter for April 2014.
Setting the Stage and Planning the Route: Investigating Campus Sexual Misconduct Complaints
In this webinar hosted by Green Dot, Jeremy Inabinet talked about the foundational concepts for individuals conducting investigations for sexual misconduct complaints on college campuses. He gave recommendations on how to explore planning, partnerships, and information gathering, as it relates to an investigation. Some main areas that were focused on included the pre-investigation meeting for the victim and the respondent, how to design an investigation process to be as successful as possible, and the importance of maintaining an equitable and consistent practice.
LGBTQ Relationship Violence & Sexual Assault
In this webinar hosted by Green Dot, Dr. Cruz talked about ways in which campuses can ensure they are being inclusive of and affirmative toward LGTBQ students. Dr. Cruz defined key terms and spoke about what to do and not do when engaging LGBTQ students. Dr. Cruz gave suggestions for ways campuses can improve their reach and meaningfully engage LGBTQ students on their campuses. She also answered questions about attitudes toward LGBTQ student groups, training judicial boards on hearing cases involving LGBTQ students, and where campuses can find resources to help them with their prevention efforts with regard to LGBTQ students.
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Forensic Experiential Trauma Interview (FETI): A Best Practice
This webinar presented by East Central Oklahoma University STAABLE Program, explains how to apply the science of memory and psychological trauma to enhance trauma interview approaches and techniques. Traditional training in this area focused on the explaining the impact of trauma on the “higher functioning” portions of the brain. However, research in the field demonstrates that these portions of the brain are not generally involved in experiencing and reacting to trauma. Adapting the principles used in critical incident stress debriefing and also the empathy-based techniques developed for forensic child interviews, the FETI process was developed to instead engage the ‘lower functioning’ portions of the brain. This technique reduces inaccuracy of the information provided and increases the likelihood of understanding the totality of the experience.
Click below to watch the webinar.