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24/7 support is available 365 days a year via the SVR Helpline at 212-854-4357. Learn more about options for calling internationally.
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESPONSE
SVR provides trauma-informed, confidential support, and prevention programs focused on ending gender and power-based violence. SVR creates social change through collective community action, building a compassionate and accountable community, with a commitment to increasing resources and support for survivors and co-survivors of violence.
Empowering survivors and co-survivors of violence by providing options and supporting their choices.
Stopping violence before it starts by fostering healthy attitudes, actions, and norms through education and by encouraging community responsibility. Request a student workshop or training.
Providing the campus community with information and resources. Request a staff workshop.
IN THE 2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR:
Sexual Violence Response hosted 342 training, education, and prevention activities for 14,335 participants.
The SVR team offered prevention programs under the theme “I am & I can”,which emphasizes the power of community members to make a change. Three of the programs focused on the digital-first nature of community members’ intimate relationships to increased attendees' knowledge of current trends, promising prevention practices, and available resources for survivors and co-survivors.
Volunteer With Us
Peer educators and peer advocates are students of all gender identities committed to preventing sexual and intimate partner violence and educating their peers about healthy relationships and sexuality. The work of these students supports our mission of advocacy, prevention, and outreach.
Learn more about our peer education and peer advocate programs and about interning with us.
HISTORY OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESPONSE
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Slide 1: In 1991, a group of students joined together to create a safe space for survivors of rap
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Slide 2: In 1992, The Rape Crisis Center opened in Butler Library
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Slide 3: In 1995, the Center moved to Barnard's campus
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Slide 4: IN 1996, the name was changed to Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center
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Slide 5: In 1998, the center was certified by the DOH
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Slide 6: In 2004, the office known as SVR was officially formed
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Slide 7: In 2014, SVR introduced bystander intervention programming
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Slide 8: In 2014 and 15, two additional SVR locations opened
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Slide 9: In 2017, SVR recognized it's 25th anniversary at Columbia
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Slide 10: In 2018, SVR becomes a Remote Temporary Orders of Protection site in New York State
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Slide 11: In 2022, SVR celebrates their 30th anniversary
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Sexual Violence Response & the Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center (SVR) at Columbia University works to provide direct services and support to survivors and co-survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and other forms of gender-based violence, as well as prevention programming to members of the campus community.
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