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Campus Climate Surveys
Best Practices: Campus Climate Surveys 10/14/2016 Colleges and universities working to end sexual assault using best practices have a free, validated campus climate survey that will generate data about the exact nature and extent of sexual assault on their campuses. This blog discusses the survey and associated best practices, including maintaining confidentiality and using the data to devise […]
AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – November 2016
Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA & OVW Date: Monday, November 7, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time OVW Staff: OVW Associate Director Amy Loder, STOP Program Managers Latonya Eaddy, Kim Galvin and Omar Mohammed AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, MaryEllen Garcia and Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth […]
AVA/OVW Conference Call Summary – September 2016
Summary of Monthly Conference Call between AVA & OVW Date: Monday, September 12, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time OVW Staff: Program Manager Kim Galvan AVA Board Members: Michelle Bynum, Julia Fuller-Wilson and Cecilia Miller AVA Executive Director: Dorene Whitworth SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS Amy Loder, Associate Director, as well as […]
Philadelphia Peer-to-Peer Meeting, October 2016
AVA held the second in a series of peer-to-peer meetings in Philadelphia on October 5th. This meeting was attended by 15 administrators and staff from 11 states. We covered quite a lot of information from reporting mandates, implementation planning, working with subgrantee programs and PREA to funding strategies and managing returned monies, among other things. […]
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Crime Survivors Speak
The first ever National Survey of Victims’ Views on Safety and Justice
From OVW…….
Dear Colleague, On behalf of the U. S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), I am writing to invite you to join us for a forum on The Intersection of Firearms and Domestic Violence: Promoting Safer Families and Safer Communities. We will also be launching a new website focused on preventing domestic […]
Implementation Plan Schedules – New!
Hello STOP Administrators, In case you missed the announcement last week, OVW has modified its policy regarding the implementation planning cycle. The AVA Board spoke to OVW and many of you posted comments to the proposed regs asking that the planning cycle more closely mirror the reauthorization cycle of VAWA. Based on these suggestions, OVW […]
NEW SANE Info
INTRODUCTION TO THE SANE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION GUIDE The purpose of the SANE Program Development and Operation Guide (Guide) is to provide a blueprint for nurses and communities that would like to start a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program. For communities with existing SANE programs, the Guide serves as a resource to help expand or […]
Partnering With the Pros To Support Victims of Sexual and Interpersonal Violence
In recent years, SUNY has been a leader in building efforts to better respond to sexual and interpersonal violence on college campuses and, through education, working towards a goal of eliminating these occurrences altogether. This year, the SUNY Title IX Coordinators Association (STIXCA) launched its Got Your Back campaign, beginning a program to provide support and comfort […]