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["Kaplan, Claire Naomi (cnk2r)" <>]

Hi Juliette,

I concur with the other posts about this issue.  From my perspective, having come from a community agency that was a dual program (in part; we didn’t have a shelter but we did have a SA/DV hotline and provided some counseling and advocacy to survivors of IPV) I was surprised that there was literally no conversation or programming around IPV when I was hired to work on campus.  That was in 1991, however, and we were just struggling to get sufficient attention to sexual assault.  I simply did programming on both, explaining that they were part and parcel of the same problem.  It took years, however, for students to really see IPV as an issue that impacted more than traditional married couples.  The other problem was that it took years to convince the Virginia legislature to pass laws allowing unmarried survivors of IPV to get protective orders against an abusive partner—most tragically it took a murder to get their attention.  Until Yeardley Love was murdered, the legislature concluded that our very weak stalking laws covered anything related to abuse in unmarried couples.  It also took the national publicity around Yeardley’s death to wake up the Clery folks to the problem of IPV. (I’d been nagging them for years to include it in their annual crime statistics, and deliberately submitted my stats by separating out the IPV stats from the “assault and battery” stats when I gave them to the UPD officer who was charged with collecting the reports). So there was no institutional imperative to pay attention.

Historically, the divide between sexual assault and domestic violence programs has been very problematic. This was largely a consequence of how funding was allocated, pitting one kind of program against another. There wasn’t enough $$ for either issue, and then once the Reagan administration issued funding for IPV programs, it made matters worse, since sexual assault programs were left out of the equation.  If you look at many dual programs, you’ll see that sexual assault receives much less money than IPV programs. In Virginia, when the two state coalitions merged, there was great intent on ensuring that sexual assault received as much attention as IPV, and it has worked out very well.  

So this situation carried over to college campuses.  I, too, am so glad that this issue is finally getting the attention it needs.  It’s too bad that it took so long, however.

Claire

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Claire Kaplan, Ph.D.

Program Director, Gender Violence & Social Change

Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center

University of Virginia

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From: Women's Center Listserve <> on behalf of Juliette Grimmett <>
Date: Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM
To: Women's Center Listserve <>, "" <>, Prevent-Connect <>, "" <>, CAPPA Listserve <>
Subject: [WRAC-L] Thoughts on why DV historically left out of campus work

Hey folks -

I hope you are all well.  I'd love to hear your thoughts about why you feel dating/domestic violence and stalking have historically been left out of campus prevention and response programs.  I'm compiling a list and very much value your expertise.  You are welcome of course to make this a larger discussion over the listservs, or email me off line. 

Thank you!

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Juliette Grimmett, MPH
Chrysalis Network, Founder
(919) 624-9575
www.chrysalisnetwork.com 

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