SARVTAE

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Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Training and Education Task Force - SARVTAE

The Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Training and Education (SARVTAE) Committee is an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and collaborative task force consisting of members of the UNC and Chapel Hill communities. We meet monthly for an hour under the direction of the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator (Bob Pleasants, bpleas@email.unc.edu) and the Rape Prevention Education Coordinator (Kelli Raker, raker@email.unc.edu). Please contact us at 919.843.7173 if you’re interested in joining!

I. Mission Statement

The purpose of SARVTAE is:

  1. to educate, inform, and actively engage members of the UNC-Chapel Hill collectively preventing sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking
  2. to ensure safe, visible, and accessible services for all survivors of interpersonal violence
  3. to create a campus and community environment free of interpersonal violence

II. Goals

To work toward its mission statement, SARVTAE has the following goals for the UNC-Chapel Hill community:

  1. to focus on the primary prevention of violence on all levels of the social ecological framework: individual, relationship, community, society
  2. to include diverse backgrounds, statuses, ages, genders, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, abilities, religions, or nationalities in our prevention work
  3. to educate and empower the following communities to prevent interpersonal violence:
    1. undergraduate students
    2. graduate and professional students
    3. staff
    4. faculty members and post-doctoral staff
  4. to provide marketable and recognizable programming for students, faculty, and staff across campus
  5. to utilize current research and best practices for violence prevention programming and to evaluate and continuously improve programming
  6. to create campus policy that supports survivors and increases educational opportunities for the UNC-Chapel Hill community
  7. to collaborate across academic and student services departments

Current Members of SARVTAE: (as of January 2013)

  • Aaron Bachenheimer, Director, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement
  • Alaina Barth, Coordinator for Staff Recruitment and Development, Housing and Residential Education
  • Alexis Holmes, student, Survivors and Advocates against the Abuse of Women
  • Amanda Gross, Engagement Associate, NC Hillel
  • Amy Gauthier, Associate Director, Housing and Residential Education
  • Amy Weil, Associate Professor, UNC School of Medicine
  • Annie Peacock, Graduate Assistant for HAVEN
  • Arianna Timko, Graduate Assistant for IPV Prevention
  • Bev Yuhasz, Nurse Practitioner, Campus Health Services
  • Brittany Bahlman, Coordinator, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement
  • Bob Pleasants, Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator, Student Wellness
  • Carmen Crosby, Doctoral Student, School of Social Work
  • Carol P. Kozel, Director of Nursing Services and Performance Improvement Coordinator, Campus Health Services
  • Christi Hurt, Interim Director, Carolina Women's Center
  • Clifford Clark, graduate student, English and Comparative Literature
  • Cricket Lane, Assistant Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Development
  • Debbie Dodson, RN, Campus Health Services
  • Desiree Rieckenberg, Senior Associate Dean of Students
  • Diana Bass, Director, UNC Hospital's Beacon Child & Family Program
  • Eric Hodges, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
  • Jesse Conyers, IPVAA representative, School of Medicine
  • Julia Da Silva, student, Project Dinah
  • Kara Murphy, Graduate Student, UNC Law School
  • Kate Kryder, Assistant Director, Carolina Leadership Development
  • Kei Alegria-Flores, Program Assistant for IPV Prevention, Student Wellness
  • Kelli Raker, Rape Prevention Education Coordinator, Student Wellness
  • Lamonte Stamps, Assistant Director, New Student and Carolina Parent Programs
  • Mary Schlegel, Women's Health, Campus Health Services
  • Megan Howard, Crime Prevention, Campus Police Department
  • Rachel Valentine, Rape Prevention Education Coordinator, Orange County Rape Crisis Center
  • Sandra L. Martin, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Gillings School of Global Public Health
  • Sarah Stoneking, IPVAA representative, School of Medicine
  • Susan Friedman, Crisis Response Coordinator, Compass Center for Women and Families
  • Terri Phoenix, Director, LGBTQ Center
  • Tiffany Eden, student, Black Student Movement's Celebration of Black Womanhood