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Casey Corcoran, MAT, Futures Without Violence
Tricia Bent-Goodley, MSW, Howard University, Howard University
Cari Simon, JD, Bode & Fierberg
Andrea Gleaves, BA, DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
LB Klein, MSW, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs
- Explain how health care providers, administrators and school community members can support survivors of sexual violence on college campuses and why it is vital that they do so.
- Identify their roles – as a friend, parent, student, alumni, health care provider, faculty, or administrator - in contributing to a survivor-centered and trauma informed response to sexual violence on college campuses.
- Give examples of sexual violence policies on college campuses that promote survivor centeredness and safety.
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“Schools might not be able to prevent all rape on campus but they can absolutely and must absolutely prevent the second rape. And the second rape is anything -- when you don't treat that victim with absolute respect and dignity.” – Diane Rosenfeld, JD, LLM Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
It is estimated that one in five women and one in seven men experience sexual assault during their time at college. Survivors of sexual violence on college campuses have often said that the sexual assault they experienced was deeply traumatic, but their schools’ response after reporting the sexual assault was just as wounding. In this session, leaders in the movement to end sexual violence on college campuses will discuss the ways in which health care providers and members of campus communities can foster a trauma informed environment that promotes the self-determination and safety of survivors while also holding perpetrators accountable.