Begin the Process

• Review your “Start-Up Kit” with your staff and delegate responsibilities. 
• Develop a tentative calendar of events including trainings, campus programs, and peer educator selection, if being utilized.  (see sample campus calendar)
• Establish a campus and community taskforce by sending out letters or making phone calls informing person (s) about STOP NOW! and inviting them to a mandatory meeting.
• Meeting with taskforce members will consist of two meetings, either as a group or individually, one with community taskforce members and one with campus taskforce members.

The following are suggested topics to be discussed during the initial meeting:

• Project STOP NOW! goals and objectives
• Responsibilities of each member
• Campus communication protocol
• Tentative calendar of events
• Potential dates for training workshops
• Distribute information: pamphlets, newsletter, and novelties
• Schedule for taskforce meetings that will be conducted periodically to evaluate campus anti-violence efforts and use findings to enhance project

Identify Campus and Community Taskforce Members

The most important role of the Community Taskforce members will be to  assist in  providing training to campus personnel and students, in addition to providing educational materials for dissemination, co-sponsoring campus events, and acting as a referral service. Members may include:

• Rape Crisis Center
• Local Law Enforcement Agencies
• State Coalitions
• Domestic Violence Services

Campus Taskforce members are important in ensuring that departments comply with the requirements of the project, provide administrative support, and extend support to all anti-violence efforts. They provide assistance in the improvement and review of policies regarding violence against women. Members may include:

• Residential Life
• Judiciary Affairs
• Campus Security
• Counseling Services
• Student Health Services
• Peer Educators
• Student Groups and/or Organizations

Select and Train STOP NOW! Peer Educators

Peer Educators are student volunteers who are trained on issues of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault. They facilitate workshops and programs to the student body. 

Beginning the process may include the following:

• Advertise announcement for STOP NOW! Peer Educators.
• Solicit referrals from faculty and staff.
• Recruit students from social sciences or other related disciplines.
• Incorporate program objectives into established student groups.

Training Peer Educators:

It is recommended that Peer Educators undergo training before they begin working with students and implementing programs. Training may be done in conjunction with community taskforce members. You might also consider providing an incentive, such as implementing a course where students can receive credits toward graduation, receive community service hours, or field experience for related areas of study. 

Community Taskforce members may provide training on the dynamics of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, stalking, including how to appropriately respond to students who may disclose being assaulted, challenging myths, and on the services that community agencies provide.

The campus coordinator may provide training on how to effectively conduct presentations and the protocols and policy of the institution.

 
Phase II

Confirm Protocol and Services of Campus Security and Student Health Services

Follow-up with your campus security department, student health services, and counseling services to determine what services and protocols are available.
 
Identify what services campus security and health services are able to render to victims of assault. 

Inquire about the following from campus security:

• Are they authorized to conduct investigations?
• What is their protocol for reports of sexual assault, stalking and domestic violence?
• What is the relationship between campus security and local police department?

Inquire about the following from student health services:

• Are they able to administer “rape kits”?
• What is the procedure for assisting victims of sexual assault and domestic violence?
• What is the relationship between health services and local hospital and/or clinic?
• Are there personnel available that is willing to go through Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training? (may be established with local sexual assault coalition or rape crisis center)

Train Campus Personnel

Training is an on-going process. It will be conducted throughout the duration of the program. However, campus personnel must immediately become aware of the general reporting and responding information.

• Filling out appropriate forms
• Project STOP NOW! services
• Responding appropriately to students
• Campus protocol
• Confidentiality
• Dynamics of violence

This can be accomplished by disseminating the instructional guides, included in your “Start-Up Kit,” pertaining to each department and following up with a formal training during the semester. It is recommended that training for Counseling Services, Campus Security, Judiciary Affairs, Residential Life, and Health Services include information that relates to the specific services that each department may render to students.

• Residential Life: emergency situations and mobilizing response team
• Campus Security: investigating and reporting
• Judiciary Affairs: consent, victim rights, impact of violence on students
• Health Services: referring to local hospital/clinic, assisting a  Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Victim

Phase III

Open to Campus Community

Host a Kick-Off Rally with a day of information dissemination and conducting activities to excite the campus community about the project.

Increase student collaboration by communicating with student leadership groups.

Incorporate the involvement of student organizations, such as Greek organizations, Student Government Associations, and Athletics. The involvement of these organizations can strengthen the message of anti-violence. Student leaders are recognized as role models, especially by freshmen, because they set a precedent for what is acceptable.

• Send out personal invitations to campus events.
• Provide workshops geared toward specific groups, such as athletes and Greeks.
• Conduct a meeting discussing the purpose of the program and how they can support its efforts.
• Ask organizations to select a person to be a peer advocate that will inform members of STOP NOW! activities, disseminate information about violence against women, and become a referral agent for members who may have been assaulted.

Phase IV

Policy Development

Develop or improve policy to include domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This is a collaborative effort among campus and community taskforce members and the project partners.