The grants to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus program (campus program) is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 20125

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (CFDA #16.525) to Shaw University, a private historically black university located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The grant funds will enable Shaw University, in collaboration with Interact of Wake County, the LGBTQ Center of Raleigh, and the Wake County Sheriff's Office, to implement a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on its campus. Key activities include developing culturally-specific approaches to address the needs of LGBTQ students, creating referral processes for accessing culturally-relevant services, implementing a tailored bystander intervention program, and establishing campus-wide healthy masculinity prevention efforts. The 3-year project seeks to enhance victim services, strengthen security and investigation strategies, and hold offenders accountable through this coordinated community response model.

The program provides a unique opportunity for institutions of higher education to establish multidisciplinary approaches to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses. These comprehensive efforts are designed to enhance victim services (including legal services), implement prevention and education programs, and develop and strengthen security and investigation strategies to prevent, prosecute, and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The campus program supports activities that develop campus-based coordinated responses among campus victim services, campus law enforcement, health care providers, housing officials, administrators, student leaders, faith-based organizations, student organizations, and disciplinary boards, and enhance victim safety and assistance and hold offenders accountable. To be effective, these responses must be linked to local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors offices, courts, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim advocacy and victim services organizations. Shaw university is a public, historically black university located in raleigh, NC. With this continuation award, shaw university, in collaboration with interact of wake county, lgbtq center of raleigh, and the wake county sheriffs office, will continue to meet the statutory and programmatic requirements. In addition, the project will: 1)develop a culturally specific approach to address the needs of lgbtq students by providing culturally relevant training to key campus personnel and coordinated community response team members; 2) createa referral process to access culturally specific services; 3) developa bystander program tailored to lgbtq student's experiences; and 4)establish campus wide prevention approaches to address healthy masculinity.