CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION

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1 CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION ANNUAL REPORT 2017

2 CONTENTS Mission of the Center for Violence Prevention 3 Spporting UNI Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan: History 5 Commnity Engagement: Professional Partnerships and Collaboration 6 Sstaining and Expanding: External Fnding and Spport 8 CVP Serving and Engaging the UNI Camps Commnity 10 CVP Leadership, Service and Engagement with Iowa Secondary Schools 12 MVP Leadership with Colleges and Universities 15 Commnity Edcation on Bllying and Gender Violence 17 Advancing Practices and Knowledge (State and National) 19 Strengths and Challenges 20 CVP Income, Reimbrsements and Expenses 22 1

3 MISSION STATEMENT AND GOALS MISSION The mission of the UNI Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) is to bild the capacity of school districts, colleges and niversities, and agencies serving yoth and families to systemically implement, practice and evalate effective bllying and violence prevention strategies. GOALS To accomplish its mission, the CVP has established the following goals: Utilize strong partnerships with state and national leaders to bring best practice and research-based programming and expertise in bllying and violence prevention to Iowa K-12 schools, commnities and colleges. Infse bystander-based prevention edcation and strategies into pre-service and professional edcation leadership programming at the University of Northern Iowa. Model a collaborative commnity-based approach to violence prevention involving a wide range of partners, inclding edcation professionals, victim service agencies, law enforcement and civic leadership. Fnction as a regional training center for Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Model and Coaching Boys into Men. Undertake continos formative and smmative program evalation of the MVP Model. Partner and/or dialoge with state and national research colleages and instittions in this endeavor. Provide opportnities to engage and challenge men to be allies with women in preventing all forms of violence and abse. Attract and maintain strong fnding relationships and partnerships with government, private and corporate fondations with missions focsed on violence prevention and victim services. Disseminate edcational content associated with gender violence prevention and best practices, and the work of the CVP, to commnity stakeholders and professional adiences. 2

4 SUPPORTING UNI VISION, MISSION, AND STRATEGIC PLAN The Center for Violence Prevention s mission and goals are aligned with, and in spport of, the University of Northern Iowa s strategic plan that speak directly to commnity engagement by serving as a primary resorce for addressing isses facing the state of Iowa, enhancing visibility in srronding commnities, and fostering a cltre of engagement for emerging professionals. The CVP is recognized as a state and national leader in bystander edcation and training and helps to provide ndergradate and gradate stdents the opportnity to engage in and explore all aspects of theory and practice as it relates to preventing gender-based violence. This is accomplished by hosting state and regional conferences, workshops and webinars with state and national experts in the field of violence prevention, as well as providing hands-on learning and internship experiences for UNI stdents with CVP leaders and commnity prevention partners across the state. The CVP works closely with faclty and staff within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Edcation to provide additional content, crriclm and application of bllying and gender violence prevention to ndergradates and gradate stdents. Within the CVP s nmeros trainings, activities and initiatives, topics relevant to creating and sstaining a diverse, safe and healthy academic climate are incorporated throghot. Additionally, the CVP spports UNI s commnity service and otreach initiatives by assisting state organizations, school districts, victim service and prevention specialists, and commnity leaders frame their discssions and strategic efforts arond violence prevention by incorporating the socio-ecological and spectrm of prevention models. The demand for CVP s leadership in prevention programming, project evalations and research spport to schools and commnity partners contines to increase. STAFF Alan Heisterkamp, Ed.D., is the director of the Center for Violence Prevention and the Governor s Office on Bllying Prevention. He had previosly served as director of the MVP Leadership Institte from 2011 to He crrently is the only personnel associated with the CVP that is receiving salary spport from the College of Edcation, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Provost s Office. Michael Fleming, Ph.D., serves as the CVP s director of Research and Evalation and is crrently on a onecorse release provided by a grant throgh the Iowa Department of Pblic Health. He served in the role as director of Evalation for the UNI Department of Jstice Camps grants and as associate director of the UNI Department of Jstice Flagship Grant. HISTORY The Center for Violence Prevention was established in 2011 as a clmination of approximately 10 years of work in gender violence prevention as a reslt of Department of Jstice fnding. From UNI received two Depatment of Jstice Camps Grants to Combat Violence Crimes Against Women on Campses in the amont of approximately $850,000. These grants focsed on establishing prevention programming, victim services, policy revisions and law enforcement/camps secrity to be responsive to sexal and domestic violence and stalking college women may experience. As a reslt of these efforts, in 2007 UNI was able to prse, and secre, fnding throgh the Department of Jstice Office of Violence Against Women s Flagship Initiative. UNI was one of 4 instittions in the contry to receive this 3-year fnding (approximately $1 million). 3

5 As a reslt of the flagship grant, UNI was able to work with the Regent campses to: Implement mandatory new stdent edcation programs Enhance training of jdicial affairs officers Enhance training of camps police and other points of first victim contact Disseminate best practices in working with men in gender violence prevention efforts Develop niversity corses and crricla in edcating stdents in victim services and gender violence prevention Assess and revise sexal miscondct policies In 2010, the Flagship grant and associated initiatives received contination of fnding throgh the Department of Jstice. Throgh this fnding, in partnership with fondation spport from Verizon and the Waitt Institte of Violence Prevention, the Center for Violence Prevention was established. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS A giding philosophy of the CVP is that preventing gender violence and all forms of bllying on college campses, in PreK-12 schools and in commnities shold involve everyone. To this end, the CVP strives to bild and spport partnerships and collaborations with many different constittents by assisting and leading in the following initiatives: CVP personnel Utilize strong serve partnerships as advisory with boar state d members and or members Undertake of the following continos goals: formative and national leaders to bring best practice and smmative program evalation of the MVP research-based programming and expertise in Model. Partner and/or dialoge with state and bllying and violence prevention to Iowa K-12 national research colleages and instittions schools, commnities and colleges. in this endeavor. Infse bystander-based prevention edcation and strategies into pre-service and professional edcation leadership programming at the University of Northern Iowa. Model a collaborative commnity-based approach to violence prevention involving a wide range of partners, inclding edcation professionals, victim service agencies, law enforcement and civic leadership. Fnction as a regional training center for Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Model and Coaching Boys into Men. Provide opportnities to engage and challenge men to be allies with women in preventing all forms of violence and abse. Attract and maintain strong fnding relationships and partnerships with government, private and corporate fondations with missions focsed on violence prevention and victim services. Disseminate edcational content associated with gender violence prevention and best practices, and the work of the CVP, to commnity stakeholders and professional adiences. 4

6 AY INITIATIVES, PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS DEVELOPED AND/OR CONTINUED: UNI Camps Commnity College of Edcation State Agencies and Associations Iowa Department of Pblic Health College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Iowa Department of Edcation Women and Gender Stdies Iowa Coalition Against Sexal Assalt Department of Social Work Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence Violence Intervention Services Iowa National Gard ROTC Iowa High School Athletic Association School of Applied Hman Services Governor s Office Sigma Phi Epsilon United States Attorney for Northern District of Iowa Phoenix Hose Fondations Verizon HopeLine National Organizations Ftres Withot Violence Waitt Institte for Violence Prevention Jana s Campaign Kind World Fondation North American Men Engage Pat and O. Jay Tomson Fondation MVP Strategies Commnity Fondation of Northeast Iowa Commnity Agencies and Coalitions Crisis Intervention Services ACCESS Amani Commnity Services Riverview Sexal Assalt Services Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Waypoint Services Phoenix Hose (Concil Blffs) Waterloo Police Department Cedar Rapids Police Department Dbqe Police Department Concil on Sexal Assalt and Domestic Violence Western Iowa Technical Commnity College Iowa Army National Gard Cedar Valley Coalition Against Domestic and Sexal Violence 5

7 ACTIVITIES OF THE CURRENT YEAR SUST CENTER AINING FOR VIOLENCE AND EXPANDING: PREVENTION EXTERNAL FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR THE WORK OF THE The CVP received a $50,000 grant from Raliance (National Sexal Assalt Resorce Center, Washington, DC) to condct trainings across the state of Iowa for high school athletic coaches. The Center condcted Coaching Boys into Men trainings in Waterloo, Mason City, Siox City, Concil Blffs, Ames, Iowa City, Cedar Falls and Dbqe. High school coaches were instrcted on how to incorporate short learning components with their yong, male athletes on digital respect, consent, positive relationships and bystander strategies to prevent verbal, emotional, physical and sexal abse among peers and team mates. Trainings were provided by a grant throgh the National Sexal Assalt Resorce Center and delivered in partnership with the Iowa High School Athletic Association, Iowa Coalition Against Sexal Assalt, and regional victim service providers and sexal assalt prevention specialists. In October 2016, the CVP was awarded $50,000 from the O. Jay and Pat Tomson Fondation to spport CSBS stdent scholarships for local, state and national internships which have as their focs bllying and gender violence prevention programming and evalation, serving victims of violence and abse, and pblic policy arond domestic and sexal violence. Five stdent scholarship recipients presented an overview of their internship experiences dring a reception in the Great Reading Room for Pat and O. Jay Tomson. The CVP awarded $5,000 grant from Kind World Fondation to spport a PreK-16 Center for Violence Prevention/Governor s Office on Bllying Prevention, Statewide Task Force on bllying and gender violence prevention. Monthly meetings were held in the Des Moines metro area between Febrary and Jly, The task force organized into three distinct working grops: Cases and Scope, Prevention, and Response. Combined together, these working grops will create a tool kit and professional development opportnities to assist and spport school and commnity leaders in their efforts to engage a systemic and comprehensive approach to gender violence and bllying prevention. The task force was cofacilitated by Joe Benesh, CEO and president of The Ingenity Company, Des Moines, Iowa. A press conference to release task force findings is schedled for early fall. Iowa Department of Pblic Health grants $5,000 to the Center for Violence Prevention to organize and spport statewide symposims on sexal assalt prevention, Title IX reqirements and camps safety for two, distinct instittions: private colleges and commnity colleges. Drake University hosted the private college event on Jne 23 and Kirkwood Commnity College hosted the commnity college event on Jne 27. Staff from mltiple campses attended in small teams to learn and hear from colleages on the challenges and sccesses of instittionalizing sexal violence prevention strategies and practices. Department of Jstice Camps Grant recipients shared their thoghts arond strategic planning, training and implementation procedres to redce and eliminate sexal assalt and all forms of gender-based violence on their respective campses. To date, the CVP has worked to deliver prevention programming to eight of the 15 commnity colleges and 21 of the 36 private, for-year colleges. The CVP receives contined grant spport from the Iowa Department of Pblic Health. Dring the AY16-17 year, the CVP received a contination grant of $27,000 from IDPH to spport prevention programming across the state with the MVP program and from the spectrm of prevention framework for mlti-level, mlti-systemic prevention initiatives. The grant also spports CVP staff in corse 6

8 releases and travel for national and state conferences and meetings. CVP SERVING AND ENGAGING THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CAMPUS COMMUNITY The CVP serves the UNI camps commnity in several ways. Bilding Instittional Capacity for Bystander Edcation: Since 2010, the CVP has offered a fall and spring Mentors in Violence Prevention Train the Trainer workshop (MVP TTT). This two-day, interactive workshop brings together a cross spectrm of the camps commnity inclding faclty, P&S staff, stdents as well as commnity partners to gain fondational knowledge and skills to implement the MVP program and/ or contine the MVP message within their respective grops. Trainings are done in partnership with the UNI Violence Intervention Services and/or throgh partnership with commnity sexal/domestic prevention specialists. Throgh this initiative capacity is bilt on camps and throgh campscommnity partnerships for implementing bystander programming. o September 16-17, 2016: training of 30 participants. o Febrary 17-18, 2017: training of 24 participants. Increasing Skills and Knowledge on Bystander Edcation: The MVP program consists of approximately 13 different modles that can be presented in a series of edcational trainings/presentations. Throgh partnership with commnity sexal/domestic violence prevention specialists and/or the Violence Intervention Services staff, and with spport from faclty from the College of Edcation and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, classroom presentations are delivered to the camps commnity and/or to stdent grops on camps. o Dring the AY 16-17, 15 presentations occrred in classroom settings reaching approximately 875 stdents. o Dring the AY 16-17, MVP sessions were also presented to: ROTC cadets (UNI, ISU and University of Dbqe) Men s Glee Clb UNI Track & Field/Cross-Contry Teams Camps Partnerships: The CVP contines to partner and work with UNI entities on camps. Dring this past year the CVP: o Served as an internship site for two gradate stdents (MSW, WGS) o Personnel participated as members of the Cltre of Respect initiative with UNI Title IX office. o Personnel served on the Women and Genders Stdies Advisory Board. Sexal Assalt Awareness Week at UNI took place April The Center for Violence Prevention participated on a camps planning team with representation from Stdent Wellness, Women and Gender Stdies, Riverview Center and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Activities inclded a film screening of, The Voiceless, 24 hor see-saw, It s On Us photos and pledge, bystander edcation workshop, speakers panel of victim service providers and sexal assalt prevention specialists, and a talent show to raise money for services provided by Cedar Valley Friends of the Family. 7

9 Engaging stdents in violence prevention. The CVP has served as a resorce for stdents engaging in violence prevention initiatives in varios ways. Throgh the establishment of the O. Jay and Pat Tomson Fondation Scholarships, the CVP has been able to spport CSBS stdent scholarships for local, state and national internships, which have as their focs bllying and gender violence prevention programming and evalation, serving victims of violence and abse and pblic policy arond domestic and sexal violence. The CVP served as an internship site for two of these stdents. The CVP has also served as a placement for three Women and Gender Stdies gradate assistantships this past year. CVP LEADERSHIP, SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT WITH IOWA SECONDARY SCHOOLS A central mission of the CVP is to provide leadership, edcation, training and evalation to secondary school systems and commnities on bllying and gender violence prevention. Throgh these efforts it is the belief that secondary schools become safer and more effective learning environments for stdents, and that stdents are better informed and prepared to step on to college campses and into their commnities to be voices against gender violence. The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program is one avene tilized to engage stdents and schools in this effort, and to bild partnerships between commnity prevention specialists and the University of Northern Iowa. Dring AY 16-17, the CVP provided: MVP training to 1,000 secondary school stdents who serve as Mentors VP Technical Spport to 11 secondary schools who have on-going MVP initiative o Cedar Rapids Kennedy o Waterloo West o Cedar Rapids Jefferson o Waterloo Expo o Cedar Rapids Washington o Siox City West High o Cedar Rapids Metro o Siox City East High o Waterloo East o Siox City North High MVP Stdent Leadership Smmits In October 2016, the CVP hosted eastern Iowa s second MVP Stdent Leadership Smmit at UNI partnering with the Iowa Department of Pblic Health, the Iowa High School Athletic Association, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, UNI ROTC and UNI s College of Edcation. Three hndred twenty high school mentors attended the day-long event covering bystander edcation and training, facilitation and mentoring skills, leadership activities, awareness of dating violence and abse among teens, and working to spport positive social norms that challenge bllying and violent behaviors among peers. In March 2017, the CVP partnered with the Siox City School District, Army National Gard, Waitt Institte for Violence Prevention and the Iowa Department of Pblic Health to host the 11th Annal MVP Stdent Leadership Smmit at the Western Iowa Technical College. Approximately 300 stdents who have been chosen to become MVP Mentors and leaders in their respective schools attended the day-long event to receive edcation and skills related to being an active bystander, mentoring and leadership, identifying the warning signs of dating abse and bllying, decreasing social media aggression, cyberbllying and sexting, gender eqality and respect, and team-bilding activities. 8

10 MVP Stdent Leadership Smmits in Cedar Falls (UNI), Siox City and Cedar Rapids were held in October, March and May, respectively. Approximately 1,000 high school stdent mentors participated in the day-long training. Stdents engaged in activities and discssions arond leadership, mentoring, violence and bllying prevention, and commnity connectedness. UNI sophomore, Jake Hartman, shared his personal experiences and reflections on being a MVP Mentor at Cedar Falls High School. Scottish police officer, Graham Golden, was a keynote presenter at the smmit in Cedar Falls and facilitated workshops on sexting and technological harm. Fnding to spport the MVP Stdent Leadership comes from the Iowa Department of Pblic Health, Verizon and the Waitt Institte for Violence Prevention. The CVP and Verizon HopeLine awarded nine Verizon/CVP Stdent Leadership Award Scholarships to gradating seniors who served as MVP Mentors in their respective high schools. Stdents who received the award were voted on by their school s staff and administration for their leadership and commitment to redcing and eliminating bllying and all forms of gender violence in their schools and commnity. Nine high school senior MVP mentors from Siox City West High, Siox City East High, Siox City North High, Cedar Falls, Union Commnity High School, Wakee High School, Concil Blffs Thomas Jefferson High School, Fort Dodge Senior High School and Marshalltown High School were honored and awarded a $250 scholarship. The CVP provides ongoing evalation spport of the MVP model and its implementation in secondary schools in Iowa. Measrement tools designed for secondary schools have been developed and shared with constitents in Scotland, Sweden, Canada, West Virginia, Kansas, and Missori. Contined improvements to the program are ongoing and fondational in the CVP s efforts to have MVP recognized as an evidence based program in the field of gender violence prevention. (See attachment: Map of MVP in Iowa s Secondary Schools) The Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) is another avene in which to engage secondary stdents in bllying and gender violence prevention. This evidence based program engages coaches (adlt male figres) in conversations with yong men on the importance of having respect for women and the vales in having, and advocating, for strong, healthy, and nonviolent relationships. Dring AY 16-17, the CVP: Provided 10 regional trainings to 72 Iowa high school athletic coaches representing over 30 school districts across the state. Training materials and expenses were fnded throgh Raliance s Ending Sexal Violence in One Generation Grant. Trainings were schedled and condcted in collaboration with member organizations within the Iowa Coalition Against Sexal Assalt and the Iowa High School Athletic Association. The Iowa High School Athletic Association partnered with the CVP to condct Leadership Workshops for school district athletic conferences at Grand View University and Wartbrg College dring the AY. Over 300 high school stdent athletes participated in discssion and activities focsed on commnication skills, leadership, bllying and gender violence prevention, healthy relationships, service learning and the importance of bilding positive school cltre and climate. 9

11 MVP LEADERSHIP WITH COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES The CVP is recognized as a regional training center for active, bystander edcation and intervention strategies specifically, tilizing the MVP model and the Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program. As a reslt, the CVP has served Iowa s colleges and niversities by edcating and training hndreds of camps and stdent leaders. Dring the AY 16-17, the CVP: Provided leadership on the planning team for the Iowa Board of Regents Inagral Camps Safety Smmit in October 2016 at Iowa State University for over 300 Iowa college/niversity presidents, provosts, deans, stdent affairs, camps safety and stdent services professionals. CVP personnel presented with Jon Bse, Vice-President Stdent Services Kirkwood Commnity College, on Enhancing College Readiness Programming: Teaching Social and Emotional Skills and Strategies for a Positive Transition to Higher Edcation at the Iowa Camps Safety Smmit in October 2016 at Iowa State University. Crrently a member of the Board of Regents 3rd Annal Camps Safety Smmit planning team. Smmit is schedled for October 2017, on the camps of Iowa State University. Participated on discssion panel following film screening on Adrie and Daisy at Des Moines Center Commnity Theater October 2016, and hosted a screening at the Gallagher Bledorn Performing Arts Center on November 14, 2017, for stdents, parents and commnity members in the Cedar Valley. Provided camps MVP Train-the-Trainer training to the following campses: o University of Dbqe o Central College o University of Iowa o Kirkwood Commnity College o Indian Hills Commnity College Partnered with UNI ROTC commander and ISU ROTC cadets to deliver MVP training to ISU cadets and fraternity members. Spport MVP Bystander corse at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, offered to ndergradates interested in prevention with emphasis on commnity service. o Agstana College, Rock Island, IL o Iowa Lakes Commnity College o Waldorf College o Simpson College Approximately 250 camps and commnity representatives were involved in these trainings. These MVP trainings involve partnering with regional sexal and domestic violence prevention specialists from Iowa Coalition Against Sexal Assalt and the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence. 10

12 COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON BULLYING AND GENDER VIOLENCE The CVP serves as a resorce for information and edcation on bystander approaches to bllying and gender violence prevention, bllying and gender violence in general, and strategies for effectively engaging men as allies in efforts to prevent sch violence. In , the CVP: Maintains an active UNI Mentors in Violence Prevention Facebook with 219 members (p 56% from last year) and a Center for Violence Prevention Facebook accont that crrently commnicates with 466 followers and garners 492 likes. Condcted and/or facilitated statewide webinar: o Engaging Men in Gender Violence Prevention: Why? What? And How? Partnered with Iowa Men s Action Network Hosted national and international expert, Graham Golden (Scotland Police), for camps and commnity partner events to share and discss best practices in victim services organizations and mlti-systemic, gender violence prevention. The Commnity Fondation of Northeast Iowa and the Waterloo Police Department collaborated with the Center for Violence Prevention to condct a one-day, MVP Strategies workshop for 21 commnity leaders who serve yoth and families in the Cedar Valley. The workshop was held on Jne 14 at Greenbrier School in Waterloo. Workshop participants engaged in activities and discssions arond efforts to be active bystanders and to spport and encorage others to be leaders and to prevent harassment and all forms of gender violence within their respective work grops and social circles. MVP Strategies is a gender violence prevention model being adopted and implemented in Waterloo secondary schools and across the state of Iowa. The CVP partnered with Vanesa McNeal, UNI gradate stdent, in April 2017 to screen her new film docmentary, The Voiceless, in the Gallagher Bledorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Michael Fleming facilitated a panel discssion involving camps and commnity victim service and presentation specialists on male sexal assalt victimization and needed services throghot the state. On April 21, CVP director Alan Heisterkamp, Ed.D. and Lt. Col. Glen Keith, UNI ROTC commander, condcted a two-hor Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) workshop for Army and Air National Gard victim advocates and sexal assalt prevention specialists at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa. Activities and discssions focsed on leadership skills, bystander behaviors and approaches to gender violence prevention, intimate partner abse, alcohol and consent, and gender stereotypes. CVP director Alan Heisterkamp, Ed.D., presented on A Commnity in Motion: Bilding Spport and Promoting Positive Change to Challenge and Confront Social Norms that Spport Violence and Abse at the America Association of University Women s Iowa State Conference at Kirkwood Commnity College in Cedar Rapids on Satrday, April 29. The conference theme was, Bilding a More Inclsive World. 11

13 ADVANCING PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE (STATE AND NATIONAL) Collectively, the work of the CVP brings together camps commnities, secondary school systems, and commnity stakeholders in developing and examining ways to make commnities safer throgh the elimination of bllying and gender violence. The work of the CVP has garnered regional, national and international attention. The partnership approach of working with secondary schools, commnity prevention specialists and the camps commnity is being referred to as the CVP Iowa Model. The CVP Iowa Model is an approach that is bilt on the belief that prevention efforts can be enhanced when mlti-level approaches to prevention are incorporated and mlti-systems are involved inclding commnity domestic/sexal violence prevention and victim services professionals, secondary schools and niversities and colleges. The mlti-level approach with secondary schools bilds pon the Spectrm of Prevention model tilized within the commnity health field. To facilitate this work the CVP has developed a secondary school assessment tool for schools and commnity partners to tilize in exploring prevention initiatives and opportnities. Dring the AY 16-17, the CVP: Presented at the 2016 National Sexal Assalt Conference in Washington, DC, and in Dallas, TX. Titles of the presentations were: o o Bilding on the past in preparing for the ftre: Empowering secondary schools for sexal violence prevention Heisterkamp & Fleming Secondary tramatic stress and brnot among sexal assalt advocates: Responding to the needs of the paid and volnteer workforce Fleming Collaborated with Iowa Board of Regents legislative liaison to meet with and inform state legislatres dring past legislative session on mission of the Center for Violence Prevention and Governor s Office on Bllying Prevention. Discssed how fnding wold solidify salary and fringe benefits for CVP director, project director or faclty, and secretary. Fnding was not approved. (Heisterkamp) UNI Center for Violence Prevention, in partnership with Jana s Campaign, is creating a National Repository of gender violence prevention crriclm. This project will serve as a resorce site for college and secondary school personnel interested in resorces to develop corses and/or modles on gender violence prevention. 12

14 STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE CVP Strengths: The CVP is recognized within the state by a nmber of agencies and departments as an important resorce for bllying and gender violence prevention strategies, programming, and evalation. In particlar, the partnerships with Verizon, the Waitt Institte for Violence Prevention, the Iowa Department of Pblic Health, the Iowa Coalition Against Sexal Assalt along with many of the sexal assalt and domestic violence prevention agencies across the state serve the mission of the CVP well. The CVP s statewide, PreK-16 Task Force on bllying and gender violence prevention was organized in response to Governor Branstand s Exective Order #83 stating the need for improved and ongoing professional development and training for edcators and commnity leaders arond preventing incidents of harm and abse among Iowa s yoth and its citizens. The Task Force will share and distribte its findings and recommendations and then work to spport school and commnity efforts to revisit, revise and reinvest in their strategic plans to promote healthy relationships, safe neighborhoods, and positive school climates and cltres. The CVP is also recognized as a resorce and for its leadership for engaging men in gender violence prevention across the state and was instrmental in lanching the Iowa Men s Action Network in The CVP s ongoing collaboration with niversity fraternity systems and ROTC cadets here at UNI and in the Midwest receives increasing recognition and inqiries from other state niversity systems. This work and recognition is de, in large part, to the leadership within UNI s Sigma Phi Epsilon and UNI s ROTC commander, Lt. Col. Glen Keith. Challenges: While the Center for Violence Prevention has achieved and accomplished mch since it was established in Janary 2011, many challenges still exist. Below is a list of key isses that the CVP will need to address dring the AY in order to sstain and maintain its place of leadership and statewide involvement in bllying and gender violence prevention initiatives. These are: New and sstainable fnding to spport key personnel: secretary, project manager Increase CVP capacity for responding to training reqests Increase awareness of the CVP s statewide reach in prevention efforts Establish Advisory Board (internal and external membership) Sccessfl application for research fnding (state/national/international) Increase pblications/manscripts for peer-reviewed jornals Ftre Fnding Otlook: In addition to collaborating with fnding partners Verizon, Waitt Institte for Violence Prevention, Kind World and the Iowa Department of Pblic Health in , the CVP has contined to seek external sorces of revene as opportnities present themselves. Specifically, grants obtained throgh Raliance (NSVRC) and the Pat and O. Jay Tomson Fondation happened as a reslt of cltivating relationships with individals and organizations that spport the mission and focs of the CVP. Engaging men and boys in gender-violence prevention, Title IX reqirements in secondary schools, mlti-system, mlti-level approach to commnity prevention efforts, the bystander approach and leadership in prevention represent ongoing interests in the CVP s work moving forward. 13

15 CVP INCOME, REIMBURSEMENTS AND EXPENSES Private Fondations 21% State Grants 11% Fnding Sorces UNI CSBS 48% Federal Grants 20% School Incentives 3% Indirect Costs 5% Salary Savings 10% Training Materials / Prodction 29% Office Spplies 13% Distribtion of Expenses Travel 6% Stdent Scholarships 14% Consltants 5% Conferences / Trainings 15% 14

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