CALCASA Webinar Series

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CALCASA Webinar Series
Achieving Minimum Standards for OVW Campus
Grant Programs August 31, 2009
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CALCASA Staff

• Dan Esparza, Campus Program Manager
• Althea Hart, Training Resource Coordinator
• Livia Rojas, Training Resource Coordinator

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August Webinar
I. CALCASA Announcements II. Technical
Instructions III. Discussion with OVW Program
Managers IV. Discussion with Campus Grantees
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Announcements

• Next Campus Webinar is set for Tuesday, September
  29, 2009 _at_ 11.00 a.m. PST on Working with
  Underserved Communities
• Check listserv for updates on next Campus TTI in
  Orlando on January 20 21

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How To Use The Technology
Raise Hand Q A Text Chat PowerPoint Slides
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Achieving the Minimum Standards
Use chat to answer
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Achieving Minimum Standards for OVW Campus
Grant Programs
Department of Justice Office on Violence Against
Women Campus Grant Program Managers
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Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating
Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking on Campus
Program Standards
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The Campus Standards

• The Campus Standards are offered as means to
  guide schools in comprehensively and
  collaboratively responding to issues of violence
  against women on college campuses.

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The Campus Standards

• The following adaptation of these guidelines and
  standards is not intended to limit a campus
  ability to develop programming appropriate for
  their school.

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The Campus Standards

• OVW strongly recommends that the proposed
  activities outlined in the Campus Standards be
  expanded upon as an individual campus deems
  appropriate or tailored specifically to meet the
  needs of an individual campus.

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• Minimum Standards for Creating a Coordinated
  Community Response to Violence Against Women on
  Campus

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• a coordinated community response to violence
  against women on campuses should be a
  multi-disciplinary response and involve the
  entire campus as well as the larger community in
  which the campus is located.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• As we all know, as part of this program, all
  campuses must develop partnerships with at least
  one local nonprofit, nongovernmental victim
  services organization within the community which
  the institution is located and one or more of the
  following criminal justice or civil legal
  agencies external law enforcement, prosecution,
  civil legal assistance providers, systems-based
  victim services units, or judiciary and court
  personnel. An applicant who is partnering with
  campus law enforcement or campus security must
  still partner with a criminal justice or civil
  legal agency.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• Coordinated community response teams and task
  forces should reflect the wide variety of
  organizations that are involved in campus life in
  order to involve all the different entities who
  have a role in meeting the needs of victims of
  violence against women on campus and holding
  offenders accountable.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• Coordinated campus and community response teams
  or tasks forces should review protocols, policies
  and procedures of member organizations and
  provide cross-training on their individual
  missions and roles.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• Coordinated response teams should work together
  on a consistent basis with scheduled meetings to
  develop formal policies and protocols for
  responding to violent crimes against women when
  they occur.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• The goal of ongoing meetings should be to develop
  and enhance a response to violence against women
  on campus that is timely, appropriate, sensitive,
  and respectful to victims needs and that holds
  offenders accountable.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• Involving partners in program planning, training
  and curriculum development and event sponsorship
  is critical to a successful coordinated community
  response.

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Creating a Coordinated Community Response Team

• First and foremost, campuses should work in close
  collaboration with experts on addressing violence
  against women issues.
• OVW recommends that campuses incorporate as many
  of the Campus Standard guidelines when forming
  and building coordinated community response teams
  or taskforces.

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Minimum Standards of Training for Campus
Security Personnel
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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• The Campus Program requires that all campus
  police be trained to respond effectively in
  domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
  assault, and stalking cases.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• Training programs should be developed in
  collaboration with campus or community-based
  victim advocacy programs.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• Training programs should include information
  about relevant federal and state laws and arrest
  protocols information on enforcement of orders
  of protection and instruction on making primary
  aggressor determinations.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• Campuses should carefully coordinate and plan
  training sessions for campus security personnel,
  and should design all trainings in close
  collaboration with experts on violence against
  women issues.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• Programs should work closely with campus security
  personnel to schedule convenient events to ensure
  attendance by the maximum number of officers.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• Again, the emphasis of the trainings should be
  that the response to victims needs to be timely,
  appropriate, sensitive, and respectful.

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Training for Campus Security Personnel

• The Campus Standards for Training campus law
  enforcement offers both general topics to be
  incorporated into a training program for officers
  as well as providing unique training
  considerations when focusing specifically on
  cases of sexual assault, or dating and domestic
  violence, or stalking.

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Minimum Standards of Training for Campus
Disciplinary and Judicial Boards
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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• The Campus Program requires that all applicants
  establish or strengthen programs to train members
  of campus disciplinary boards to respond
  effectively to charges of domestic violence,
  dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• All members of campus disciplinary boards,
  including faculty, staff, students, and
  administrators should receive expert training on
  these crimes.

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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• The structure of campus disciplinary boards or
  judicial boards varies widely. Some boards are
  made up of faculty and administration officials
  while others are comprised of student
  representatives. Campuses should design all
  trainings in close collaboration with experts on
  violence against women issues.

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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• Prior to conducting training for campus
  disciplinary or judicial boards, a campus should
  review the current code of student conduct .

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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• Training topics could include information about
  the causes and effects of violence against women.

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Training for Campus Disciplinary and Judicial
Boards

• The Campus Standards for Training Campus
  Disciplinary and Judicial Boards offers both
  general topics to be incorporated into a training
  program for board members as well as providing
  specific training considerations.

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Minimum Standards for Establishing A Mandatory
Prevention and Education Program for all Incoming
Students on Campus
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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• The Campus Program requires that all campuses
  establish a mandatory prevention and education
  program about domestic violence, dating violence,
  sexual assault, and stalking for all incoming
  students (first year students, transfer students,
  etc.), working in collaboration with campus and
  community-based victim advocacy organizations.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Campuses should carefully consider how to ensure
  that all incoming (first year students, transfer
  students, etc.) students will receive the
  mandatory orientation.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• It is essential for campuses to have a mechanism
  established to fully account for the
  participation of each student in the program.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• The prevention and education program can and
  should include a variety of methods website,
  courses, presentations, seminars, theater
  discussions, letters, etc.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• The program should include information about
  domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
  assault, and stalking. The campuses policies
  and protocols, student code of conduct, local and
  national resources, hotlines, legal, medical,
  mental, and other assistance should all be
  addressed in configuring a program. Information
  provided in the program curriculum should cover a
  spectrum of topics.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• OVW recommends that campuses consider the
  prevention and education program for incoming
  students to be established in three stages in
  order to maximize the number of incoming students
  reached and engage the students in as effective a
  way as possible.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• A three-stage program configured as
• pre-orientation/arrival,
• orientation/arrival, and
• on-going
• This gives students access to relevant
  information as they progress in their campus
  experience.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Given the different types of campuses and their
  various orientation policies, there is no one
  size fits all solution. OVW recognizes that what
  a large public university schedules for incoming
  students will be vastly different from what a
  small rural community college schedules.
  Programs should be creative and use all of the
  campus resources available to reach the entire
  population of incoming students.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Be conscientious and encompass all different
  orientation sessions held on campus. Incoming
  students enter the campus every quarter,
  semester, and in addition, some unique groups may
  have their own separate orientations (such as
  athletes, specific residence halls, foreign
  students).

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Within the Orientation training, each program
  should consider employing two or more distinct
  formats to reach students in different ways. It
  is recommended that one of the strategies involve
  peer involvement such as mens groups, peer
  theatre or peer education.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Please note, OVW does not consider the creation
  and distribution of CD-rom and print media alone
  to be sufficient to complete this program
  requirement.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• After the initial arrival of incoming students,
  campuses should continue to schedule activities
  (semester/quarter beginning) connected to
  different campus events and located at a variety
  of campus venues.

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Mandatory Prevention and Education Program
Standards

• Campuses should not consider adopting a single
  recommendation from those identified as meeting
  this program requirement.
• The recommendations are made so that campuses
  might consider a multi-stage approach to meet the
  program requirement.

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Overview

• OVW policy requires campus grantees to create a
  coordinated community response relating to
  domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
  assault and stalking on campus.
• The multidisciplinary response to violence
  against women on campus involves the entire
  campus as well as the larger community in which
  the campus is located.
• Therefore,
• The minimum requirement includes developing
  partnerships with at least one local non-profit,
  non-governmental victim services organization
  within the community and one external criminal
  justice or civil legal agency.

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Campus Program and Response Services

• SART/DVRT
• Awareness Events and Campaigns
• Education
• Outreach
• Specialized Programming
• Orientation
• Academic Courses
• Academic Advocacy
• Student Judicial Affairs

• Crisis Line
• Direct Service
• Counseling
• Legal Services
• On Campus Housing Relocation
• Fundraising
• Peer Education Programs
• Volunteers
• Student Groups

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Community Victim Services

• Batterer Programs
• Life Skills Classes
• Volunteer Training
• SART/DVRT
• Awareness Events and Campaigns
• Education
• Certification Crisis Training

• 24/7 Crisis Line
• Direct Service
• Counseling
• Legal Services
• Shelters
• Transitional Housing
• Childrens Programs
• Fundraising

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Questions from the Field

• What are the primary functions of the CCRT as it
  relates to following
• Review and Modification of Protocol Review and
  Modification of Policy
• Provisions of Response Training
• Event sponsorship and support
• Curriculum development

• What are the advantages, as well as the challenge
  forging alliances with community partners?
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• How often should the does the CCRT meet?
• Bi-weekly Each Semester Yearly
  Everyday
• Every Two Years Never
• What are some recommendations in creating support
  or dealing with CRT members that act as stumbling
  blocks for the program?

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Mandatory Orientation
Annette Lynch University of Northern Iowa
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Iowa Regent UniversitiesCampus Violence
Prevention Project

• Iowa Flagship Grant
• University of Northern Iowa
• University of Iowa
• Iowa State University
• Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault

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Mandatory Sexual Misconduct Education at The
University of Iowa

• Student SuccessTM Sexual Assault Prevention
  (nformd.net)

This project is supported by Grant No.
2007-WA-0015 awarded to the University of
Northern Iowa by the Violence Against Women
Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice
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What is nformd.net?

• Online videos with a pre/post test option
• Covers sexual misconduct including
• Sexual assault
• Dating violence
• Stalking
• Sexual harassment
• Provides links to local resources for support

http//sexualassault.studentsuccess.org/
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Why nformd.net _at_UI?

• Positive campus experience with other online
  learning tools
• Online course allows student access
• OVW funding leveraged additional institutional
  financial support
• Timing
• Compliments other campus education strategies

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Implementation

• Mandated of all incoming, first-year students by
  UI Office of Student Services
• Students must achieve a score of at least 80 on
  the post-test
• Students were notified via postcards, e-mails,
  letters, and orientation flyers
• Cost 3.95 per student
• UI Research
• Stakeholders

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Accessibility

• International students
• Program coordinator worked closely with the UI
  Office of International Students and Scholars
• International students took the course once they
  arrived on campus
• Pre and post-discussions were available to
  students
• Students with disabilities
• Accommodations available closed captioning, full
  program script, in-person meetings
• Students who are victim/survivors
• There is a separate protocol

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Outcomes (pending)

• Compliance

Male Female Research Agreement Total Completed
1559 1953 2950 3548
Pre/post test averages
Gender Pre-test average Post-test average
Male tests 52 89
Female tests 56 89
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Forum Theatre Performances ISU

• Expansion of Students to Students Peer Education
  Program

Get a Yes Promotional Campaign

• Catalyst Theatre Co. Performances
• You are invited to take action in the Catalyst
  Theatre Co. (CTC) production "Scene on Campus" at
  Iowa State University. CTC is a campus movement
  to end sexual assault, relationship violence, and
  stalking. By taking action you will
• Connect with peers about these issues
• Examine what you think you know
• Discover some things you do not know
• Give voice to how we can exist peacefully and
  respectfully in our community
• CTC will present "Scene on Campus" six times
  during Destination Iowa State
• Thursday, Aug 20, 1 pm in 2055 Hoover
• Thursday, Aug 20, 3 pm in 2055 Hoover
• Friday, Aug 21, 5 pm in 1148 Gerdin
• Saturday, Aug 22, 5 pm in 2055 Hoover
• Sunday, Aug 23, 4 pm in Memorial Union Sun Room
• Sunday, Aug 23, 6 pm in Memorial Union Sun Room
• Attendees will be entered in a drawing to win a
  gift certificate donated by the Iowa State
  University Book Store!
• Questions or want to get involved?
• Contact Ray at ctc_at_iastate.edu or 515-294-2722
• Take Action Violence Affects Everyone

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Flagship Campus University of Northern Iowa

• SAVE Forum Actors

Director Karen Mitchell, Professor of
Communication Studies

• New student program developed with first DOJ
  campus grant in 2000.
• Institutionalized at the end of the second
  individual grant in 2004 with budget from
  Provosts office.
• Karen Mitchell, Director, helped to implement ISU
  program and UI program.

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Law Enforcement Training
Leah Lyon East Central University
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Developing Relationships

• 5 Tips to Develop Working Relationship with
  campus/local law enforcement
• Early Buy-In from administrators/partners
• Lay the Foundation Law Enforcement Depts (prior
  to submitting application/shortly after award)
• Top-Down Approach
• Build on existing buy-in to expand support
  network
• Arrange meetings that bring supporting
  administrators in direct contact with
  officers/chief
• Positive Peer Pressure (works with campus
  local dept)
• Invitations to events (let them know the peers
  that will attend)
• Training Assistance
• CLEET hours, referrals, collaboration,
  case coordination

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Developing Relationships

• Communication
• Face to face meetings, often including
  administrators
• Knock on doors, discuss the issues and emphasize
  the benefits to officers and the department.
• One place to send/refer victims seeking help
  (questions, assistance
• Develop relationship with Criminal Justice Dept
  professors at your campus.

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Law Enforcement Training Education
Comprehensive Approach

• Level 1 Phone, email, and interpersonal
  communications (frequent) - changes in laws,
  policies, recommended practices.
• Level 2 Case Coordination Meetings (bi-weekly or
  monthly) - Opportunity to discuss appropriate
  practices and effective response.
• Level 3 CERT Meetings (Quarterly) - Review
  issues, appropriate responses, resources.
• Level 4 Campus education and training events
  (various programs throughout the year)
• Level 5 Yearly Law Enforcement Training Events

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Comprehensive Approach
CIRCAW Co-Sponsored with ECUs Tribal Police
Training Program (TPTP), a training event on
Sexual Assault Drugs, Cyberstalking, and Domestic
Violence in Indian Country. National experts and
Oklahoma Legal Professionals served as trainers.
CLEET and ECU Credit was offered. RUSO-VPP
Co-sponsored, with CIRCAW and Tribal Police
Training Program, a staff member to complete a
Domestic Violence Train the Trainer Certification
course. The course is certified by Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and is
endorsed and used by the Oklahoma Coalition
Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(OCADVSA). Now ECU and RUSO has an internal
trainer. ECU applied for and was recently
approved as a FLETC Domestic Violence/Sexual
Assault Train the Trainer Venue for 2010. Campus
program coordinators, local advocates, and
officers will complete the course.
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Annual Training

• RUSO-VPP has hosted two very successful 2-day
  Training events in April 2008, and April 2009 at
  CLEET.
• Featured Co-Instructors from ECU, both certified
  in FLETC Train the Trainer DV and SA, and from
  Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and
  Sexual Assault. ECU Chief of Police also served
  as trainer for a session.
• The events included two officers from each
  university, various Tribal Law Enforcement
  officers, ECU Chief of Police and other ECU
  Officers, Family Crisis Center Staff, CIRCAW
  Coordinator, RUSO-VPP Director, ECU Peer
  Educator/Student Advocate, and ECU Vice President.

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Training Agendas/Content
Requirements/Standards
April 2008
April 2009
Dynamics Effective Response Evidence
Collection Resources VPOs Primary Aggressor
Determinations Confidentiality State/Federal
Laws
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Annual Training

• Officers receive CLEET continuing education
  credit hours for participation and successful
  completion of the course
• Includes Pre-Test and Post Test (must past Post
  Test to receive credit)
• Evaluations of the training are administered.
  Both events received very high scores around
  96-97

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Effective Successful Relationships

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Comprehensive Approach

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Acknowledgements

• Office on Violence Against Women Campus Program
  Managers
• Annette Lynch, College of New Jersey
• Leah Lyon, Eastern Oklahoma State College
• Grantees
• CALCASA Staff