C.A.R.E. 5-Year Strategic Plan
This 5-Year plan provided a detailed overview of the C.A.R.E.'s 2021-2026 Violence Prevention Strategic Plan, including its history, context, and goals.
Below Outlines the 4 focus areas of the C.A.R.E.'s Strategic Plan.
Focus Area 1: Enhancing Universal & Targeted Prevention Programs for Students
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Goal 1.1: Increase targeted programming opportunities for students beyond the first year.
Strategy 1.1.a Develop prevention plan for violence prevention that identifies developmentally appropriate learning outcomes for students beyond their first year and increases diverse opportunities for engagement throughout their time at UR.
Strategy 1.1.b Develop incentives and opportunities for student organizations that are under-programmed.
Strategy 1.1.c Increase opportunities for prevention education for students who are not engaged in other student organizations by promoting the “Don’t Cancel That Class” program among faculty.
Strategy 1.1.d Continue implementing mandatory online WELL 086 Bystander Intervention course for all 2nd year and incoming transfer undergraduate students and WELL 090 graduation requirements focused on violence prevention.
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Goal 1.2: Enhance universal prevention by bolstering mandatory programming for all incoming undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Strategy 1.2.a Continue to mandate WELL 085 (Everfi’s Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates) for all incoming 1st year and transfer undergraduate students.
Strategy 1.2.b Continue to mandate Everfi’s Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate Students for all incoming Law Students.
Strategy 1.2.c Mandate violence prevention program for all incoming MBA and degree-seeking SPCS students.
Strategy 1.2.d Enhance culturally-specific mandatory training programs for degree and non-degree seeking international students.
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Goal 1.3: Enhance universal and targeted prevention by building on current peer education efforts and creating a streamlined, robust peer education program.
Strategy 1.3.a Recruit diverse student leaders as peer educators to facilitate violence prevention education and training within [and outside of] their communities.
Strategy 1.3.b Develop multi-session Spiders for Spiders bystander intervention programs to incentivize and diversify peer-to-peer education.
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Goal 1.4: Develop targeted tertiary prevention strategies for members of the community who display problematic behaviors or violate community norms, or for other educational opportunities that might arise to help prevent future harm.
Strategy 1.4.a Explore how restorative practices can be used to approach prevention programs, education initiatives, peer education, and building a healthier campus culture.
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Goal 1.5: Enhance existing targeted and universal programming on healthy masculinities.
Strategy 1.5.a Work with Richmond and Westhampton Colleges, RCSGA/WCGA, Athletics, IFC, and other campus stakeholders to build on, promote, and incentivize healthy masculinity programming.
Strategy 1.5.b Hire Healthy Masculinities & Violence Prevention Educator
Focus Area 2: Engaging Faculty/Staff/Administration and Infusing Violence Prevention into Classrooms
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Goal 2.1 Enhance skills of faculty and staff to prevent & respond to violence.
Strategy 2.1.a Develop Safe Zone style Trauma-Informed Training for faculty & staff.
Strategy 2.1.b Develop training for UNIV101 instructors, WELL 085 in-person facilitators, and WELL 090 instructors to ensure content and messaging on relevant violence prevention topics is streamlined.
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Goal 2.2 Engage faculty, departments, and students whose research interests involve interpersonal violence topics to connect classroom and co-curricular violence prevention work.
Strategy 2.2.a Develop and maintain database of classes, faculty members, and departments who are engaged in topics of violence prevention.
Strategy 2.2.b Build out curricular opportunities for students to engage with violence prevention in the classroom.
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Goal 2.3 Integrate violence prevention work with larger university initiatives for diversity and inclusion and overall well-being initiatives.
Strategy 2.3.a Incorporate violence prevention into UR’s “Making Excellence Inclusive” Work Plan and other larger inclusion & diversity initiatives.
Focus Area 3: Enhancing Assessment and Evaluation to Better Inform Violence Prevention Programming
- Goal 3.1 Create and maintain an inventory of assessments and data related to interpersonal violence at UR.
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Goal 3.2 Enhance and implement program evaluation tools to assess effectiveness of programming.
Strategy 3.2.a Review and collect existing program evaluation tools and data.
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Goal 3.3 Adopt a methodology for continual process improvement of programing based on assessment and evaluation data.
Strategy 3.3.a Develop strategies to use data to inform prevention education, training, awareness campaigns, and social norming efforts.
Focus Area 4: Increasing Communication among UR Community About Violence Prevention Initiatives
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Goal 4.1 Develop mechanisms for regular and consistent communications about violence prevention work with UR Community with a focus on collaboration across departments and divisions.
Strategy 4.1.a Revise and update prevent.richmond.edu website with programs, support resources, education, and status of ongoing work of IWAC.
Strategy 4.1.b Enhance engagement of faculty members as allies through updates on the IWAC listserv and other strategies.
Strategy 4.1.c Increase positive and proactive communications with UR Community.
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Goal 4.2 Increase community understanding of reporting processes and resources.
Strategy 4.2.a Create regular open forums for students to better understand Title IX policy, reporting processes, and resources.
Strategy 4.2.b Continue to train peer educators and advocates in evolving Title IX processes and messaging, bolstering supportive and confidential resources.
Strategy 4.2.c Engage students in the policy development process.