1. Prevention & Education: Improve Northeastern University’s Prevention and Response Services. Establish effective prevention and education programs for all students. Using a research-based approach taught by highly trained student volunteers, the Center’s prevention programs identify common forms of victimization and students are taught specific strategies to utilize so they can safely act to help limit other people’s vulnerability to interpersonal violence. Provide greater resources to survivors, friends, significant others, parents, faculty/staff, students, etc. regarding awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
2. Work in collaboration with the Campus Police, Health/Counseling Services and Student Organizations to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions, support survivors, and create a community committed to standing up against campus violence.
The Campus Center on Violence Against Women (CCVAW) is a collaboration of students, staff and faculty dedicated to making Northeastern University a model community in our approach to prevention and responses to interpersonal violence. The Center is the result of a Department of Justice grant, and is in its first year of implementation.
Mission: A holistic, innovative, student-led program, the Northeastern University Campus Center on Violence Against Women is dedicated to effectively educating the campus community on the prevention of, and response to, domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault. It is our hope that women and men will work together, assuming positions of leadership to eliminate campus violence. Taking individual threads of empathy, awareness, and compassion, the Center’s overarching aim is to weave a tapestry of interconnectedness that empowers the individual, affirms the human condition, and promotes positive change.
Emergency Telephone Numbers:
Off-campus emergencies: 911
Northeastern Campus Police: 617.373.3333
Campus Center on Violence Against Women: 617.373.7714
The goal of this website is to provide helpful information and resources to survivors of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault as well as parents, significant others, university leaders and friends who are united in promoting awareness and stopping the cycle of campus violence at Northeastern University and beyond.
Sarah Cope
Webmaster, CCVAW
Sarah has been a volunteer with the Campus Center on Violence Against Women since its inception in the summer of 2007. She is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology PhD program and studies sexual assault. As part of CCVAW, Sarah is a Bystander Education trainer and also maintains this website. We would love to hear any comments or suggestions you have about this website - please email them to ccvaw@gmail.com.
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