National programs addressing violence prevention on college campuses

So through the planning we’ve been doing for the campus speaker group, I met the Director of Health Promotion here at Clemson who forwarded me some information about national campaigns involving college dating violence awareness. The White House and Vice President Biden have a campaign for dating and sexual violence prevention, particularly for young women, called “1 is 2 Many“. Here’s a link to the site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/1is2many . On the site the Vice President has recently asked for the public to share ideas on how to make college campuses safer.

Also here is a video of the VP speaking at University of New Hampshire. The only video I found is the entire speech, which is really long, but it is interesting to skim through and watch a little bit. He talks about concern for this issue as a “collective national value” which I thought was interesting in light of our discussion of the text last week about value-based messages.

Another program I was informed about is The Date Safe Project, found at http://www.datesafeproject.org/. This program addresses its audience on its home page as k-12 schools, universities, parents, and also military, which is pretty interesting. I had never thought of sexual violence in terms of the military, so that was interesting to read about.

They have a youtube channel as well with several videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/DateSafeProject 

I had never heard of these initiatives before, but I thought it was interesting that they are targeting college students in the same way that we would want to through a campus speaker.