Sexual and Relationship Violence Resource Consultants

About the Program

The Sexual and Relationship Violence Resource Consultants (RCs) are a volunteer group of staff and faculty from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. RCs work proactively to prevent and address sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking in our shared campus community by acting as a resource for individuals who are looking for information about sexual and/or relationship violence. RCs provide confidential support and resource information to survivors and can help individuals find and obtain the help they are looking for both on and off campus. They are trained on a range of issues regarding sexual and relationship violence, including the dynamics of intimate partner violence, how to offer emotional support, medical treatment and counseling services available to survivors, and criminal justice and judicial processes and options.

Who are Resource Consultants?

RCs represent a variety of offices and departments from across the three Consortium campuses. They are diverse individuals of varying ages, races, sexes, sexual orientations, and religious affiliations. They interact with and serve the campus community at different levels, but collectively they have chosen to become a source of resource information for survivors and/or their friends.

Click here to see the list of trained Resource Consultants.

Become a Resource Consultant

RCs participate in an intensive, 16-hour training that takes place over four half-days (typically 10AM-2PM). During this training attendees are instructed on:

• the dynamics of sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and stalking;

• how to actively listen to and support survivors;

• what services are available on and off campus (medical, counseling, judicial, legal);

• the unique qualities of a campus environment and how they may exacerbate sexual and/or relationship violence;

• crisis intervention and hospital/criminal justice procedures; and

• cultural considerations in supporting victim/survivors.

To become an RC trainees must attend all four training sessions in their entirety. Training sessions are conducted by experts from the three Consortium universities and our community partners, Women Against Abuse and Women Organized Against Rape.

For more information about the Resource Consultant training please contact:

Jacqueline A. Rogers at jarogers@upenn.edu / 215.898.6500.

Click here to sign up for the next RC Training!

June 3, 5, 9, and 11, 2008

10AM-2PM