The document discusses the Center's workshops and advocacy efforts regarding violence prevention and breast cancer awareness. It also outlines PAAVE's training program and definitions of sexual assault, consent, statistics on victimization, the effects of assault on victims, and ways to rethink violence and coercion.

1. Jean Nidetch Women’s Center
PAAVE Presentation
2011

2.  Workshops and presentations
 Events on campus
 Advocacy for violence prevention and
breast cancer awareness
 Academic involvement
 Four on staff, certified victim advocates

3.  Peers Advocating for Anti-Violence Education
 Formerly known as SAFE Team,
began in 2002
 Completed 18-hour training on domestic
violence and sexual assault

4.  Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and
Drug/Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault
◦ Definitions
◦ Consent
◦ Statistics
◦ Effects on Victims
◦ Rethinking Violence

5.  The F.B.I. estimates that one in three women in this
country will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
 According to the National College Health Risk
Behavior Survey, one in five undergraduate women
have been raped.
 In the majority of rape cases, 84%, the perpetrator
is someone the victim knows- a partner, spouse,
classmate, date, co-worker, neighbor, or family
member.

6.  Sexual assault is a broader category that the
Justice Department uses to classify rape,
attempted rape and other violent felonies that
fall short of rape.
 U.S. Justice Department: Assault
“Physical assault is a behavior that threatens,
attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm,
ranging from slapping and hitting to using a
gun”

7.  Nevada Revised Statutes: Sexual Assault
“A person who subject another person to sexual
penetration, or who forces another person to
make a sexual penetration on himself or another,
against the victim’s will or under conditions in
which the perpetrator knows or should know that
the victim is mentally or physically incapable of
resisting or understanding the nature of his
conduct, is guilty of sexual assault”

8.  Consent?
 Physically Unable?
◦ Unconscious
◦ Physically powerless
◦ Unable to Communicate
◦ Helpless
◦ Unaware
◦ Physically Disabled
 Mentally Unable?
◦ INCAPACITATED
◦ Mentally incapable of resisting or consenting

9. What is consent?
Both parties are fully conscious.
Both parties have equal ability to act.
Both parties are positive and sincere in their desires.
Both parties have clearly communicated their intent.
 Fear of Rejection
 May hear partner is a survivor
 May not know how

10.  Hypothetical situations…
◦ “What if we…”
◦ “How would you feel if we…”
◦ “What do you think about…”
 I statements…
 Coercion is NOT consent

11. Alcohol is the most common drug used to
facilitate sexual assaults- particularly among college
students. As opposed to other drugs (such as GHB
and Rohypnol) that are often given to victims without
their knowledge, alcohol is often consumed
consensually.
Perpetrators often take advantage of victims who
are already intoxicated, or purposefully get a target
drunk in order to facilitate a sexual assault. These
perpetrators most often have had much less to drink
than the victim and in some cases have not
consumed alcohol at all.

12. Victim is too drunk to consent for 1 of 3
reasons:
 Surreptitious administration by assailant
 Mixing of prescription or over the counter
drugs with alcohol or recreational drugs
 Recreational use by victim

13.  97,000 college students between the ages of 18
and 24 are the victim of alcohol related sexual
assaults each year.
(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: A Snapshot of Annual High-
Risk College Drinking Consequences. )
 Victims of drug-facilitated or incapacitated rape
were less likely than victims of forcible rape to
report to authorities.
(Kilpatrick, Dean, PhD, et al, Drug-facilitated, Incapacitated and Forcible Rape: A
National Study (2007))

14.  Alcohol alone
 Alcohol mixed with drugs surreptitiously
administered by assailant
 Alcohol mixed with prescription, over the
counter drugs
 Alcohol mixed with recreational drugs
* synergistic effect of combining drugs

15. Synergistic Effect
 The interaction of two or more substances or
other agents to produce a combined effect
that is greater than the sum of their separate
effects

16. Did victim:
 Vomit?
 Urinate?
 Defecate?
Could victim:
 Walk?
 Talk?
 Did victim have to be helped with physical tasks?
Did defendant:
 Carry victim?
 Follow victim?

17. Ethanol And Blackouts
 Blackout: Periods of memory loss for events that transpired
while a person was drinking
 (no loss of consciousness- not passed out)
 Ethanol induced memory impairment includes disruption to
the hippocampus which plays a central role in formation of
new memory.
Ethanol And Passouts
 Alcohol-induced unconsciousness
 Not asleep, but sedated-due to CNS depressant effect
 Resembles sedated state associated with surgery
 Can last for hours
 Groggy-sedated feeling can linger for 24 hours

18.  Many different forms of violence in a
relationship
◦ Often are dismissed as “isolated” or “random” acts
of anger
◦ Media images contribute to a social complicity of
violence and often portrays signs of violence in
relationships as signals of “passion” or “lust”
◦ Signs of abuse overlap and escalate

19.  Has the abuser…
◦ Held or restrained you to keep you from leaving?
◦ Slapped or pushed you?
◦ Locked you out of the house?
◦ Refused to help you when you were sick, injured or
pregnant?
◦ Forced or aggressively pressured you to consume
alcohol or drugs?

20.  Has the abuser…
◦ Called you stupid or insulted your intelligence?
◦ Criticized your appearance?
◦ Told you that you could never leave him/her?
◦ Told you that you could be easily replaced?
◦ Said that no one else would want you?

21.  Has the abuser…
◦ Ridiculed or insulted your gender as a group?
◦ Ridiculed your beliefs, morals, race, religion or
heritage?
◦ Humiliated you in public OR private?
◦ Insulted or driven away your friends or family?
◦ Manipulated you with lies or contradictions?
◦ Threatened to hurt themselves if you left?

22.  Has the abuser…
◦ Taken credit cards/checks/money away as a form
of punishment?
◦ Forced you to hand over money or your
paychecks?
◦ Refused to tell you about bills?
◦ Are they the only one “allowed” to work?
◦ Taken your name off crucial documents
(insurance, leases) to prevent your access to
them?
◦ Drained your bank account?

23.  Abuse in relationships is any pattern of
behavior that is used to coerce, dominate or
isolate the other partner to gain control
 Abuse knows no boundary concerning race,
class, gender, sexual orientation etc.
 Remember, violence may take a different
form in different communities but that does
not make one form more important than
another

25.  Can be short or long term
◦ Cutting/ self-mutilation
◦ Eating disorders
◦ Depression
◦ Alcohol and substance abuse
◦ Re-entrance into a violent relationship
◦ Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)*
 More information on PTSD and violence is available upon
request
◦ Academic Career

26.  Anyone can be a victim of sexual assault or
domestic violence. If you or someone you
know is involved with interpersonal violence
know that there are confidential resources to
help you.
 Rape Crisis Center
◦ 366-1640
 More information available at:
◦ The Jean Nidetch Women’s Center, UNLV
SSC A, 255 – 702.895.4475