Grant Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking or Violent Behavior Among College Students

U.S. Department of Education
A FY 2006 Awardee

This project has three main goals: create a comprehensive campus violence prevention model; generate a coordinated series of programs and services to address relationship violence; and develop a model relationship violence protocol, environmental scanning tool for campus violence, and campus violence survey. Program components include, but are not limited to, a curriculum infusion program, a fellowship that addresses gender role socialization, a safe zone “identified helper” program, and services for students from violent families.

Program Components

Our overall project is based on a social ecological framework model. All 13 components work together for long-lasting change.

SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK	PROJECT COMPONENT
Individual Factors	Targeting off-campus students
	Family guide to campus violence prevention and response
	Addressing prior victimization and family history
	Movie series on violence
	"Diversity in relationships" program: an entry point to the abusive relationship conversation
	"The Grey Zone"program: addressing drunk sex and sexual assault
Group Factors	Social norms campaign on violence
	Creative ways to respond to affected individual
Institutional Factors	"I CARE": a safe zone program
	Curriculum Infusion Project
Community Factors	Create a model relationship violence protocol.
Public Policy	Addressing gender role socialization as a risk factor
	Address myths and stereotypes about relationship dynamics through cultural images

For more information about this project, contact Project Director Rebecca Caldwell at 910-962-4136.