Purpose
Educate about sexual/relationship violence and related issues, prevention of sexual/relationship violence, University policies and procedures, and campus and community resources. Works to improve campus coordination and response as it relates to sexual/relationship violence. Fulfills the requirement of the The Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT) is a multidisciplinary team of campus and community partners that meet regularly to assess, plan, monitor, and evaluate campus sexual and relationship violence response and prevention efforts. The goal of the CCRT is to better equip EMU to have an effective, trauma-informed response to incidents of sexual and relationship violence; to increase services and resources for victims/survivors of sexual and relationship violence; and to establish new campus norms that are intolerant of sexual and relationship violence. The CCRT is mandated by EMU's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grant to establish a permanent campus CCRT to address response and prevention to sexual/relationship violenceprevent dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus. In addition to quarterly meetings, the following CCRT working groups meet regularly in the 2021-22 academic year: campus programming working group; climate survey working group; cultural competency working group; and stalking working group.
Decisions
Decisions related to sexual/relationship violence response and prevention on campus. This includes decisions about policy changes, updates, or proposals; development of or updates to response protocols; and campus prevention activities.
CCRT has the following working groups: policy working group, response working group, and prevention working group. Working groups bring decisions, products, and other outputs to the larger CCRT for review.
Approval of CCRT decisions related to student programming are through Student Life. Institutional changes are approved through the Provost's Council.
Membership
Permanent members include EMU's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grant managerProject Director, dean Dean of studentsStudents, Title IX coordinatorCoordinator, coordinator Coordinator of safety Campus Safety and securitySecurity, and director Director of counseling services.
Representatives from the following areas on campus: student life, academic success, faculty, Lancaster site, Washington DC site,graduate programs, IEP, and athletics.
Representatives Counseling Services. The CCRT includes representatives from the President's and Provost's offices, Student Life departments, Athletics, Intercultural Programs, the Intensive English Program, Academic Access, Lancaster and DC sites, faculty, and the undergraduate and graduate student body. Membership also includes representatives from the following community agencies: Collins Center, Harrisonburg Police Department, Sentara RMH, and First Step.
3-4 student representatives and other faculty/staff from the campus community as interested or relevantCCRT membership is open to any interested member of the EMU community.
Chair
Working The CCRT is chaired by the OVW Project Director, and working groups are chaired by Title IX coordinator (policy), dean of students (response),and OVW grant manager (prevention). members of the CCRT.
Reporting
Communication flows from working group chairs to the larger CCRT via in-person reporting meetings and email. Communication flows to the campus community from the CCRT chair via email.
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