Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Mount Vernon Square A (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- learn what local service providers wish on-campus health providers knew -- and what federal law requires they do -- about sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
- Learn how advocates at an innovative program at a DC-based non-profit have been able to assist student survivors of sexual assault and dating violence while working closely with on-campus service providers, and how their collaboration with University administrations to improves the student survivor's experience on the path to recovery.
Are you an on-campus health provider wondering how you can better collaborate with local victim services to help your students? Are you a community service organization seeking new ideas of how to reach students who don't typically seek off-campus resources? In this session, an expert attorney will discuss how federal law requires universities help student survivors of sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking--and how local a local non-profit collaborates with on-campus health providers to serve student survivors of gender-based violence.