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Hi Dave,

At Cal State University Northridge we have a program call Project DATE which 
addresses sexual assault and interpersonal violence. We collaborate with our 
local rape crisis center (Valley Trauma Center) to refer students for 
additional services. Project DATE began as an outreach intiative through the 
Unviersity's Counseling Services in 1996 and the Valley Trauma Center joined 
some time after. 

Project DATE operates as a club/class where we train undergraduate students 
as peer educators to present on and off the campus on topics related to 
sexual assault, primarily on rape. 

We act as advocates on campus but our peer educators are not trained 
counselors. The Valley Trauma Center has a rape crisis advocate training 
class for individuals to get certified to work across our state. 

I am the instructor of the class and I direct the program. I work within the 
University Counseling Services of the campus as staff provided through the 
Valley Trauma Center. I am accountable to the UCS and peer education programs 
as well as to my employer (Valley Trauma Center) and the Educational 
Psychology Department which provides the credits for the students. 

Kindest Regards,

Elisabeth Gibson
Program Director
Project D.A.T.E (Discovering Alternatives for Today's Encounters)
Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Program

University Counseling Services
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street, BH 520
Northridge, California 91330-8217
(818) 677-7723

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From: Angela DiNunzio Seguin 
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:35 PM
To: Dave Kennedy; 

Subject: Re: Question about student advocacy groups on campus

Hi Dave,

1.  At Univ of Delaware, we have one student advocacy organization that 
addresses all 3 - stalking, intimate partner violence & stalking.  It started 
out in the 1970s just focussed on sexual assault and broadened to include the 
other 2 issues in the late 1990s.

2.  For many years they did awareness-raising programs and values 
clarification programs.  In the last few years, we have tried to make the 
shift to primary prevention programs.  But it's a struggle because the 
awareness-raising still has a place in the world, we believe, and primary 
prevention does not meet all needs.  Right now we use 2 primary prevention 
programs that we developed: (1) that has students use the snowball activity 
to anonymously share how they ask for sex/consent and we discuss each and 
place on a continuum from safe/clear/respectful to never ok in any situation. 
 And (2) a bystander intervention program that utilizes scenarios and has the 
audience brainstorm ways to intervene & then our volunteers set up & act out 
the skits with each group trying out their interventions in the skits, 
followed by audience discussion.

3.  Direct victim advocacy & crisis intervention on a 24 hour crisis service; 
cultural/community advocacy by commenting in the media when inappropriate 
headlines/stories appear or there is inappropriate community response - 
especially in the student media; and finally, campus advocacy as needed to 
address victim concerns on campus.

4.  I am the coordinator of the group, and I provide the follow-up crisis 
counseling through my office, Student Wellness & Health Promotion, for 
victims who interact with the crisis service or who just call/walk-in.  In 
order to be volunteer victim advocates, students must apply and go through an 
interview/screening process.

Angela

Angela DiNunzio Seguin
Project Director, UD-DSU VAWA Grant
Coordinator, Sexual Offense Support
Student Wellness & Health Promotion
University of Delaware
(302) 831-3457
http://www.udel.edu/studentwellness




---- Original message ----
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:24:01 -0500
From: Dave Kennedy 
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Subject: Question about student advocacy groups on campus
To: 


Hello all--

I am new to the list so if this has been discussed elsewhere I apologize. I 
was wondering a couple of things about any student advocacy groups for IPV 
issues that you have on campus:

1.  Do you have a single group that works on all these issues (stalking, 
sexual assault, etc.) or do you have a different group for each issue?
2.  What types of programs do they do?
3.  What type of advocacy do they do (i.e. do they have a line to upper 
administration, a voice in the student paper, etc.)
4.  Who advises the group and what position does that advisor have on campus 
(e.g. faculty, senior administration, wellness office, etc.)

Thank you, and I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Best,

Dave


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