A National Project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
On January 27, 2015, the U.S. Department of Education this morning released the final implementing regulations for th Campus SaVE Act/VAWA amendment to Clery on the Federal Register Website at the link below. They will be formally published on Monday and take effect July 1, 2015.
To read the changes and the rest of the Violence Against Women Act, click on view resource below!
Back in 2003, Congress funded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct a study to obtain national estimates of the occurrence of IPV-related injuries, to estimate their costs to the health care system, and to recommend strategies to prevent IPV and its consequences.
This report in summary:
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In a report hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health titled “The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation” by Kathryn E. McCollister, Michael T. French, and Hai Fang review crime-costing literature in the hopes of showing how prevention programs that directly or indirectly prevent crime can generate substantial economic benefits by reducing crime-related costs incurred by victims, communities, and the criminal justice system.
To read the study, click on the view resource button below!
For those living in Illinois and have suffered trauma, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault site contains a site of brochures that help orient victims of their options and the type of information available for them.
There is also information available in Spanish.
Click below on view resource to view the library of resources available.
The University of North Caroline-Greensboro hosts a sexual violence prevention website for coaches called “Coaching Coaches”.
The training materials were specifically designed for high school coaches and athletic administrators to help prevent the use of sexually violent language in athletic settings. This course aims to teach coaches to move away from rather than teach athletes to become desensitized to an abusive dialogue to empower them to play harder.
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The National Domestic Violence Hotline has adapted Sarah M. Buel’s Fifty Obstacles to Leaving, a.k.a. Why abuse Victims Stay to discuss the reasons for why people should not be quick to judge a victims’ decision to stay in a a damaging relationship.
These blog posts contain a link Buel’s article and elaborates on why asking a victims “Why don’t you just leave?” isn’t comforting or in the least bit reasonable.
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hosts a page on Violence Prevention of Interpersonal Violence. According to the NCAA, the athletics departments in schools have a responsibility to effectively addre犀利士
ss interpersonal violence and sexual assault among their athletes, coaches, and supervisors so that they can intervene in cases like sexual assault, hazing, harassment and abuse.
Click on view resource to check the violence prevention page and read their guide on addressing Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence.
Safe Horizon, an organization that operates Rape Crisis Programs in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, created a free booklet for survivors titled “After Sexual Assault: A Recovery Guide for Survivors”.
Find suggestions on options for when you or a someone close to your has suffered a sexual assault.
Click on view resource below to read the guide and check out some of their other resources.
There are two resources available from Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) for Parents.
To those parents visiting colleges with their students and walking in their tours, SAFER has created a postcard which you can use to ask some your college guide about the safety precaution its taken against sexual assault or if they know about the protocols the school has regarding sexual violence on campus.
Also available on the site is a “Eleven Things Parents Can Do to Fight Sexual Assault on Campus”.
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In the new era where technology has involved as an extension of our identity, it is difficult to assume that the same rules of freedom of expression apply considering the pervasiveness and ease in accessibility make it easy for all kinds of people to share what they want (or possibly don’t want) on the internet. This document created by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting. It informs interventions related to sexting.
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