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USA Offers Sexual Assault Training Sessions

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Posted on October 29, 2021

Joy Washington

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It鈥檚 On Us, a national nonprofit organization with the mission to combat college sexual assault, is collaborating with the 小蝌蚪APP鈥檚 HEART Project and Title IX Office to provide Sexual Assault Awareness/Consent Education 101, Bystander Education 101, and Survivor Support 101 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12, at the Student Center Terrace.

South Alabama was selected as a site for the national "It鈥檚 On Us" sexual assault training, and will invite the campus and larger Mobile community to take advantage of this important opportunity. It鈥檚 On Us was founded in 2014 as a White House initiative to change the culture of campus sexual assault.

鈥淭hrough our partnership with It's On Us, we're able to offer programming targeted at preventing sexual violence on campus,鈥� said Dr. Candice Selwyn, director of the HEART Project at South Alabama. 鈥淚t is one of HEART's primary missions. It's On Us includes national experts addressing sexual assault on college campuses, and we're grateful to both learn from their organization and share the knowledge with South's students and the greater Mobile area.鈥�

鲍厂础鈥檚 HEART Project (Health, Empowerment, and Recovery from Trauma) was developed to support undergraduate and graduate students who are sexual assault victim-survivors, and also offers education and outreach on campus and in the Mobile community.

 鈥淲e hope to continue this collaboration by encouraging students to of It's On Us,鈥� Selwyn said.

Students interested in this effort can contact Selwyn at cnselwyn@southalabama.edu to learn more and receive support from HEART in its endeavor to bring It鈥檚 On Us to campus full-time.

The HEART Project was made possible through a nearly half-million-dollar grant to the USA College of Nursing from the Office of Justice Programs鈥� Office for Victims of Crime. The USA Violence Prevention Alliance is a campus collaborating partner with the HEART Project.

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