Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Cathy Nardo <>]

TO:  Allied Organizations

FROM: National Sexual Violence Resource Center

RE: Request for Information

DATE:  March 17, 2004

 
In June 2004, a meeting sponsored by the Office on Violence Against Women
(OVW), U.S. Department of Justice, will be held to begin to develop national
strategies to facilitate improved collaborative responses to sexual
violence. The planning committee for this meeting includes representatives
from OVW, the STOP Technical Assistance Grants Project (STOP TA Project),
VAWA state grant administrators, the National Sexual Violence Resource
Center (NSVRC), the Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project (RVP),
National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA), the
National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, the National Center on Domestic
and Sexual Violence (NCDSV), the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), the
National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Programs (OJJDP).

You are being asked to provide this planning group with information about
what your organization sees as pressing gaps in response to sexual violence
and your experiences working collaboratively with other agencies on this
issue.  Providing data is easy: just go to
http://nsvrc.org/collaborativework.
Data can be submitted anonymously.  Collected data will be compiled and used
to inform meeting participants about local, state, and national needs and to
direct initial efforts to facilitate collaboration.

You are also encouraged to forward this request to agencies you collaborate
with on sexual assault initiatives.  The planning group is trying to reach
out to organizations traditionally affiliated with the anti-sexual violence
movement, as well as nontraditional groups that work in some fashion with
sexual assault victims, sex offenders, and/or related prevention or research
efforts.  Please note that if an agency does not have Internet capacity,
this memo and the inquiry can be faxed or mailed to them and the completed
inquiry can then be submitted to the NSVRC. 

Thank you for any information you can offer.  Contact Sally Laskey at

 or 877-739-3895, ext. 104, if you have any related
questions or need the memo and inquiry faxed or mailed to an agency. 

 


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Hi All,

I am wondering about the best practices for points of entry into sexual 
assault services and/or judicial procedures on campus. Here the push is to 
encourage students to contact one of several Sexual Assault Survivor 
Advocates (trained volunteers), me, Public Safety, the DA, one of the 
campus counselors, student health, our local rape crisis, one of the deans 
etc etc. Most of these people have extremely limited training and education 
about sexual assault.

I understand that the idea is that students will be most likely to talk to 
someone they know already and feel comfortable with. However, I suspect 
that the numerous entry points may just be adding confusion for the students.

I am also concerned that survivors are being asked to give their account 
multiple times, at each office. When students come to see me as a first 
contact, I don't think they necessarily want me to ask them all of the 
questions to fill out a reporting form that we have, which is not the same 
as the public safety reporting form, or what the DA might want to know 
about the case, especially if I am referring them to an advocate who will 
then need to fill out her own report and so on. They generally want to tell 
someone what happened, and hear that it is not their fault and their 
feelings are normal, and find out their options.

What kinds of experiences with campuses that have one unified point of 
entry or multiple points of entry built into your sexual assault response 
do listmembers have? Has anyone worked with both kinds of system and can 
compare the 2? What do you think works best? Is there any research on  what 
works best for survivors?

Thanks,


Molly Dragiewicz
Director
Women's Resource Center
Bucknell University

(570) 577 1375