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 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, enhance victim safety and the provision of 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. Northern kentucky university (NKU) is a public four-year institution located in highland heights, kentucky. With this continuation award, northern kentucky university, in collaboration with the ION center for violence prevention, legal aid of the bluegrass, women helping women, highland heights police department, ST. Elizabeths physicians student health clinic of NKU, and ELEVEN24, will continue to meet the statutory and programmatic requirements. In addition, the project will: (1) collaborate with ST. Elizabeths physicians to provide advocacy services during trauma-informed forensic exams for student survivors of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking; and (2) develop a formal protocol to determine the roles of norse violence prevention and ST. Elizabeths including how advocates will be called out and how confidentiality will be maintained.