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

[Tammi Slovinsky <>]

At our university, one email is sent by our deputy Title IX Coordinator to the student.  The email contains information on their rights, plus contact information, including the advocacy office. 

Tammi Slovinsky, MPA
Assistant Director
Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking Advocacy Services
The Wellness Resource Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
815 South Cathedral Place
Richmond, VA 23284
(804) 828-2085
(804) 828-7949

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Megan Elizabeth Selheim <> wrote:

General question for those of you who provide crisis response:

 

Right now, we never reach out to someone who is identified to us as a possible victim/survivor – we let them make the decision to contact our program or not. That’s how I was trained, and that’s how all of the other campus & community programs I’ve worked at operate.

 

However,  I’m starting to wonder if that’s always the best approach in a campus climate. Every other student support program on our campus actively works to contact and communicate with students who may need their services, with the exception of ours. I’m not sure if students are interpreting this to mean that if they don’t hear from us, it’s because we’re not a resource. We’re also still working on building awareness of our program, so there are plenty of students who have no idea that we’re here, or know about us but have no idea what we do.

 

Keeping in mind that safety is paramount, do any of you have situations where you will reach out to a student first, rather than allowing a student to make the decision to contact you? Our program is housed in the Dean of Students office, so I’m regularly informed about relevant situations where DOS, Residence Life, and/or university police have been contacted, in addition to normal secondary contacts from fac/staff and other students.

 

I’d appreciate any thoughts. Thanks!

 

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Megan Selheim

STOP Violence Program Coordinator

Dean of Students Office

Dept. 3135, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie WY 82071-2000

118 Knight Hall

307-766-3296

www.uwyo.edu/stop