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Addressing sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking on campus

presented by

María Cristina Pacheco Alcalá

Program Coordinator

Casa de Esperanza © 2017

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• This project was supported by Grant No. 2016-TA-AX-K051 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.


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Our mission is to mobilize Latinas

and Latin@ communities to

end domestic violence.


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Network provides training and

consultations to practitioners and

activists throughout the US, as well as in Latin

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Objectives • Reflect on their campuses’ current efforts to address sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking.

• Learn about the purpose, structure, and requirements of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program and how the grant can help strengthen campuses’ ongoing efforts.


Objectives • Understand the support OVW provides for grant implementation through nationally recognized technical assistance providers.

• Obtain guidance on the solicitation and application process

• Learn how the University of Puerto Rico, a current Hispanic Serving Institution grantee, has benefited from the Campus Grant and has been able to make use of available funding and OVW-provided expertise to improve prevention and intervention efforts on campus.


Where is your campus in terms of gender based

violence?

DOJ Campus Program

• Office on Violence Against Women, The United States Department of Justice • https://www.justice.gov/ovw • Administers Violence Against Women Act funds

• Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program


https://www.justice.gov/ovw

Campus Program • Encourages a comprehensive coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety, provides services for victims and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable. • Trauma informed victim services • Strategies to prevent, investigate, respond to sexual

assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking


Context • 1 of every 4 women on campus experiments sexual assault before finishing her grade (OVW and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2016).

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, 2010) estimates that at least 95% of campus rape is not reported.


Context • Black women (43.7%) and multiracial non-Hispanic women (53.8%) have a significantly higher lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner compared to White non-Hispanic women (34.6%) • Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2013.


Campus Program Statutory Requirements • Create a coordinated community response (CCR) including both organizations external to the institution and relevant divisions of the institution.

• Establish a mandatory prevention and education program about sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking for all incoming students (i.e. first year and transfer).


Campus Program Mandatory Program Requirements • Train all campus law enforcement to respond effectively to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

• Train all members of campus disciplinary boards to respond effectively to situations involving sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.


Campus Program Core competencies

• Trauma-informed approaches and understanding of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking

• Cultural Competence

• Clery Compliance

• Engaging men


Campus Program Core competencies • Community engagement

• Strategic planning and assessment

• Discipline specific knowledge and skills: • Student Conduct • Campus Security/Law Enforcement • Comprehensive Prevention and Education


Overview of the Campus Program Roadmap Using a capacity building model, OVW Campus Program helps create systemic and cultural changes on campuses to address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.


Design of the Roadmap • A core group of professionals on the campus gain an integrated set of competencies that support change efforts • Casa de Esperanza provides cultural competence technical

assistance

• Each campus builds a strong coordinated community response team (CCRT)

• Training and Technical Assistance Institutes uses a train the trainer model.


Year One

• CCR Team Development and Planning Activities

• 3 TTIs • Webinars • Needs

Assessment • Strategic

Planning • Cohort Calls • TA Check-In

Calls

Year Two

• Implementing strategic plan goals

• Webinars • Individual TA • Cohort Calls • TA Check-in

Calls

Year Three

• Implementing or revising strategic plan goals

• 2 TTIs • Webinars • Cohort Calls • TA Check-in

Calls • Individual TA • Mentoring New

Grantees

Grant Cycle at a Glance


Campus Program Solicitation process • January 2018 – typically solicitation opens

• Includes guidelines for writing the grant and documents that need to be included as part of the solicitation.

• February 2018 – typical deadline for application submission

*Usually application is to be submitted six weeks after the solicitation

opens. https://www.justice.gov/ovw/closed-solicitations (FY 2017)


https://www.justice.gov/ovw/closed-solicitations



University of Puerto Rico

• Violence Against Women Prevention Program (2007-2012) – work with 11 campuses from the University of Puerto Rico • Peer educators

• Gender Equity Program (2012 to present) • Prevention campaign • Training pre-professional students and staff from the

Counseling Department


Learning's • As a result of dialogues with students and previous prevention efforts, we were able to identify as a innovative strategy doing education coming from a healthy lens, how a healthy relationship looks like. • Breaking traditional paradigm focused on defining

what's dating and domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking and working on healthy relationships, human rights, communication skills, gender lens and conflict management, among others.


Lessons

• Research – learn from others experience • Team

• Coordinator

• CCRT • Relation with administration and with community partners • Reports

• Technical Assistance


Participatory Strategies


Popular Education

Popular Education • Systematic and on-going process. • Implies reflection and the study of a group to learn about them. • Better understanding of who we want to work with

• Training process under a transformational lens.


Participatory Techniques • Tools that promote participation in order to create knowledge and exchange of ideas.

Practice →Theory→Practice

or

life→knowledge→life


When working with peer educators – Create the conditions

• Commitment • Mutual agreements • Work plan

• Goals • Responsible parties • Roles


Activities • Coordinated community response when incidents of dating and domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking happen on campus

• Educational campaign • Training • Orientation and referrals • Prevention collaboration • Reflection on gender roles Casa de Esperanza © 2017

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Questions


Contact Information

María Cristina Pacheco Program Coordinator

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