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What is Safer Together?
Safer Together is EMU’s office of sexual and relationship violence prevention and advocacy. It’s a space where members of the campus community can get information to better understand:
- What sexual violence and relationship violence are
- How to access services for victims and survivors, both on and off campus
- EMU’s policies and procedures for responding to incidents of sexual and relationship violence
- Your role in preventing sexual and relationship violence on EMU’s campus
Online, Safer Together brings together information to help survivors navigate their experiences. In person, Safer Together brings together people to prevent sexual and relationship violence from occurring. To learn more or get involved, reach out to safertogether@emu.edu.
Who is Safer Together?
Every person on this campus plays a role in making EMU either more or less safe. We are all safer when we work together to prevent sexual and relationship violence.
Safer Together is made possible by the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women grant 2017-WA-AX-0022 to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus. Safer Together employs the following staff members:
- Venissa White, director of Safer Together
- Rehana Franklin, survivor advocate
Our Green Dot motto is that nobody can do everything, but everybody has to do something to make our campus safer. We model that approach in the work we do. Safer Together partners with the following members of our campus community to implement our grant objectives:
- Kim Anderson-Jussel, Title IX coordinator
- Nikki Dovel, Counseling Services lead counselor
- Shannon Dycus, dean of students
- Wayne Martin, campus safety manager
EMU’s Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT) is where many of the ideas that guide the work of Safer Together are generated. The CCRT is a group of faculty, staff, and students who bring together the many perspectives reflected in our diverse campus population. The CCRT meets several times per year, with working groups that convene more regularly. If you’d like to learn more about EMU’s CCRT or are interested in joining, contact us at safertogether@emu.edu.
This project was supported by grant 2017-WA-AX-0022 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
