Aurora Center Case Study

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The Aurora Center: Mission and Initial Thoughts The Aurora Center works to provide education and intervention regarding sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking for all students, faculty, and staff of the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College (The Aurora Center, 2014). Aurora serves both victim/survivors and concerned people making it more inclusive and accessible to students and staff than other centers of its kind. Their mission is broken into four parts: delivering free and confidential help to everyone on the two campuses, developing partnerships between Aurora and other departments on campus, foster awareness about sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking, and creating meaningful places for volunteering and …show more content…
First there are special projects volunteers who work on outreach and social representation of the Aurora Center on campus. These volunteers require a six hour training session to cover the most important aspects of prevention sexual violence. The direct service advocates work the 24-hour helpline for victim/survivors and concerned people, and help provide in person advocacy work in hospital and sometimes even legal settings. Violence prevention educators work in the community to inform people on topics regarding consent, sexual health, healthy relationships, and bystander intervention skills. Direct service advocates and violence prevention educators both require a 40 hour training process that allows them to be state certified as sexual assault crisis …show more content…
Much like how women of color experience disproportionate levels of sexual violence, people within the LGBTQI demographic are more likely to be victims of sexual as well as nonsexual violence (‘Sexual assault: The numbers | responding to Transgender victims of sexual assault’, 2014). Within the minority stress model, people of non-dominant sexual orientation or gender alignment experience stress due to hostile, homophobic and transphobic societal views. I believe, this effect extends to how victims of sexual violence are perceived. One in two transgender people are being sexually abused at some point during their lives, but some measures find that number to be closer to two in three. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) claims that acts of physical and sexual violence towards transgender individuals are more socially acceptable due to less extreme daily acts of discrimination such as homophobia and transphobia. This daily stress and discrimination referenced in the minority stress model may also indicate the lack of compassion towards individuals of marginalized gender expression or sexual orientation when faced with sexual violence. The NCAVP also touched on the fact that transgender people of color experience double jeopardy, are more discriminated against and may experience more extreme violence. LGBTQ youth experience 30 percent incidence of relationship violence while only nine percent of heterosexual teens report

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