The Women's Center at Virginia Tech

The Women's Center provides a variety of services to help prevent sexual assault, relationship violence, sexual harassment, stalking, and cyberstalking from occurring, as well as to let people know how to help those they know who may have experienced these types of violence. Programs include:

• Educational presentations on sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and cyberstalking for academic groups, residence halls, and other student groups.
• Training on sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and cyberstalking for orientation leaders, university judicial bodies, law enforcement, allied professionals, faculty and staff, and student leaders.
• Awareness efforts throughout the year, including highlight programming during Sexual Violence Awareness Month in October and Women's Month in March.
• Publications distributed at various times throughout the year, as well as statistics available for report writing and general information.
• SAVES (Sexual Assault and Violence Education by Students), a student group trained by the Women's Center to provide presentations and peer education on sexual assault, relationship violene, stalking, and cyberstalking.

Grant statement: This project was supported by grant # 2005-WA-AX-0020 awarded by the Violence Against Women Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of View in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Last updated 03/29/2007