The beginning of the new school year is coming around the corner and it’s time to share all of the changes that will be happening for SARVA!
The following important changes will be implemented in the upcoming year:
We are really exited about beginning an intern program to SARVA! We are looking at 5-6 interns to be decided annually who will focus on social media, event planning, community connections and campus communications. Volunteers who decide not to be interns will be involved in monthly meetings, and have the option of joining teams lead by interns focusing on specific projects and ongoing work.
SARVA will no longer be providing presentations for the Greek Community in the Fall. Health and Wellness recently picked up Hall Health’s Peer Education Program and they will be increasing the range of topics that they will be presenting, which will include sexual assault. We are happy to have the opportunity to explore other avenues while knowing that a trusted program will be continuing sexual assault education on campus. For more information, visit depts.washington.edu/livewell/peer-health-education-phe or email uhelp@u.washington.edu.
For the first time we’re going to have the time and space to provide programming in the Fall! So far on the agenda we have a DAWG Daze Consent Workshop, passive programming (Silent Witness, Clothesline Project and poster campaign) and Take Back The Night (Yay for making this a twice yearly event!) for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, as well as a Relationship Skills four week series in November.
We will now offer two separate trainings a year, one in Winter quarter and one in Spring quarter. This will help in solving the problem of attendance drop off between quarters, and will allow us to be more accessible to the university community by increasing the number of students we can train as well as making the time commitment more manageable.
Our overall goals for these changes are to spread out responsibility, provide more leadership opportunities for both interns and volunteers, and increase the outreach and effectiveness of SARVA.