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

["Hotvedt, Carmen" <>]

Greetings:

 

For those of you in the big ten conference, I'm sure you've heard that
the NCAA Joint Group (and no, I don't really know what that is)
supported an action in February 2007 to fund and support a relationship
between MVP and the Big Ten.

 

As such, MVP should be visiting Big Ten schools regularly for the net
few years--including meetings with coaches, athletic directors, life
skills coaches, and about six teams per day.

 

I just met with some folks from our Athletics Department to discuss the
overlap and collaboration possibilities as our visit will be in April
2008.  I'm wondering if any other Big Ten schools are working with their
Athletics Departments closely on this initiative?  I don't know how long
the relationship will be funded, but we are exploring several ways to
collaborate, including:

 

-A co-hosted press conference with the department, student athletes, and
the local SASP

-a multi-year attitude shift/environmental scan survey administered to
each team that works with MVP (what does change look like as MVP
saturates each team over the course of several years?)

-collaborative events, meetings, etc.

-Developing an action plan with student athletes to remain engaged in
the issue (large scale press campaigns, speaking engagements, coach
awards, etc.)

-Work with our campus CCR to strengthen ongoing prevention education,
perpetrator accountability, and victim services/access for student
Athletes.

 

I'm pleased that the Big Ten and MVP are working together, but am
curious to know how we can collaborate in a meaningful, supportive way
so that their work is not done in isolation (or ours!).  With no
additional resources on our end, how do we connect to create lasting
change instead of one-time trainings and events?  Finally--how do we as
the professionals working at Big Ten schools challenge and support one
another to push our Athletics departments to see collaboration and
sustained efforts as a best practice?

 

If other Big Ten folks want to respond to me individually, I can share
our responses--or we can use this list if it seems appropriate for other
schools to do so.  

 

Take care all,

 

Carmen Hotvedt, Violence Prevention Specialist

University Health Services, UW-Madison

115 N Orchard St

Madison, WI  53715

608/265-5966    www.uhs.wisc.edu/assault
<http://www.uhs.wisc.edu/assault> 

 

Staff Advisor, PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, a student
organization at UW-Madison devoted to ending sexual assault and dating
violence through education and activism

http://uwpave.rso.wisc.edu/ ;<http://uwpave.rso.wisc.edu/>
<http://rso.uwpave.wisc.edu> 

 

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