Focused Efforts of Brave Project

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The BRAVE Project is a collaboration of effort through our Coordinated Community Response Team Our Coordinated Community Response Team includes people both from our campus and larger Rome/Floyd community.

Each individual brings a unique set of expertise, experiences, and role in supporting the work of this campus project. The team worked together to build a strategic plan of prevention, training for faculty and staff, and continues to develop policy and procedures as well as support and advocacy to survivors of interpersonal violence at Berry.

  1. Comprehensive Prevention
    • a. Coordinate consistent and re-occurring prevention programming including bystander intervention training across campus.
    • b. Annual programming for Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Dating/Domestic Violence Awareness Months.
  2. Student Conduct
    • a. Coordinate training for advisers and adjudicators involved in the student conduct process under sexual misconduct policy.
    • b. Support campus wide knowledge and understanding of the sexual misconduct policy and process.
  3. Law Enforcement
    • a. Coordinate training related to sexual assault and gender based violence for law enforcement.
    • b. Support a partnership between law enforcement and other campus safety personnel in comprehensive approach to safety for survivors across campus.
  4. Victim Services:
    • a. Train appropriate staff members to be trauma-informed in the their roles to support student survivors
    • b. Develop a working relationship with local victim services organizations and a streamlined communication for referrals.

This project was supported by Grant No. 2019-WA-AX-0400 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Department of Justice.

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