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

[Joann Bautti-Roche <>]

Hi everyone,

I'm writing from Oakland University's Gender & Sexuality Center in Rochester, 
Michigan.  We are a very new center and I am the first paid professional 
running it (I have been here for one year).  The GSC is a women's resource 
center and LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and ally) 
resource center.  I'd like to get some feedback as to what a university with 
approx. 20,000 students should have in place for sexual assault prevention 
and awareness.  In reading the emails on this distribution list, I realize 
many of you are very advanced in this area and I'd like to learn from your 
experiences.  Here are my questions:
1.  What should the GSC have in place to take a proactive approach to sexual 
assault prevention and awareness? (OU has historically taken a reactive 
approach)
2.  Are there start up grants for university's who are trying to establish 
program resources and human resources specifically for sexual assault 
prevention and awareness?
3.  What currently exists at other university's

Currently, our police department handles sexual violence incidents.  They 
also offer a RAD (rape aggression defense system) program that is quite 
popular.

Thank you!
Joann Bautti-Roche, MPA
Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Center
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309
248-370-4333

www.oakland.edu/gsc