Case Studies

     See below for success stories of what has worked well--and why--on specific campuses.

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• Using Student Orientation to Prevent Violence Against Women  Cost-effective examples of new student orientation as an entry point to a linked series of prevention efforts addressing violence across the school year and throughout the college experience. http://www.higheredcenter.org/services/training/webinars/using-new-student-orientation-to-prevent-violence-against-women
  Tags: Prevention  Best Practices  Case Studies  Campus   Webinars 
• Center for Violence Prevention, College of St Scholastica  This site is meant to help students, faculty, and staff get a clearer understanding of critical issues related to college students such as sexual assault & harassment, alcohol use and violence,and care strategies. http://www.css.edu/Administration/Health-and-Well-Being/Violence-Prevention.html
  Tags: Best Practices  Alcohol Facilitation  Case Studies  Intimate Partner Violence  Campus   Consent 
• Aurora Center: Advocacy and Education, University of Minnesota Twin Cities  (Open to all campuses) The Aurora Center provides a safe and confidential space for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and family members or friends who are victims/survivors/concerned people. http://www1.umn.edu/aurora/
  Tags: Response  Rape and Sexual Violence Crisis Center  Case Studies 
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center  The NSVRC collects and disseminates resources on sexual violence including statistics, research, position statements, statutes, training curricula, prevention initiatives and program information. http://nsvrc.org/
  Tags: Best Practices  Case Studies  Curricula  Research 
• Clarifying Consent: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence on a College Campus (PDF:15pages/107KB)  Sexual assault policies are only as effective as students' understanding and use of them. How do students know what they mean for actual behavior? Ideas here. http://wiki.preventconnect.org/file/view/Borges+2008+Clarifying+Consent.pdf
  Tags: Case Studies  Social Norms Change  Consent  Research 
• Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention  Presents a compelling orientation to the importance of the bystander model; a useful educational guide on bystander engagement in sexual violence prevention. http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/nsvrc-publications/engaging-bystanders-sexual-violence-prevention
  Tags: Case Studies  Bystander Intervention 
• Sexual Assault on Campus: What Colleges and Universities are Doing About it  This Department of Justice report shows that college women are at higher risk for sexual assault than their non-college-bound peers. It provides a comprehensive benchmark of sexual assault policy on US campuses. http://www.nij.gov/pubs-sum/205521.htm
  Tags: Campus   Prevention  Research  Perpetration  Case Studies  Response  Institutional Responsibilities 
• Case Studies and Model Programs in Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention  Over the course of several years, the Higher Education Center has collected information on a variety of AODV prevention programs at institutions of higher education around the U.S. http://higheredcenter.ed.gov/resources/case-studies/browse
  Tags: Environmental Change  Alcohol Facilitation  Prevention  Best Practices  Case Studies 
• She Fears You: Teaching College Men to End Rape (PDF:17pages/140KB)  College men can understand that they too are harmed by men's violence against women and can be motivated to examine their own socialization and behaviors and join with women. http://www.keithedwards.us/Edwards.Headrick.pdf
  Tags: Case Studies  Masculinity  Engaging Men 

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