The document discusses a training provided by the Jean Nidetch Women's Center on the Peers Advocating Anti-Violence Education (PAAVE) program at UNLV. PAAVE provides presentations on topics related to domestic violence and sexual assault after completing an 18-hour training. The goal of PAAVE is to broaden discussions of violence prevention beyond typically focusing only on white, heterosexual women and to address violence as a social epidemic. The training covers definitions of assault and sexual assault, forms of domestic violence, barriers to reporting violence, and the impacts and resources available for victims.

1. Jean Nidetch Women’s Center
PAAVE Training
Christina Hernandez
Outreach and Awareness Coordinator

2. We provide:
• Workshops and
presentations
• Events on campus
• Advocacy for
violence prevention
and breast cancer
awareness
• Academic
involvement

3.  Peers Advocating Anti-Violence Education
 Formerly known as SAFE Team
 Educators completed 18 hour training on
domestic violence and sexual assault
 Provides UNLV campus with presentations on
specific topics in domestic violence and
sexual assault
 Currently going through Spring 2010
training.
 Check us out on Facebook: UNLV PAAVE or
Gmail: unlv.paave@gmail.com

4. The goal of this discussion is to “shift the focus” of
dominant conceptualizations of violence that
maintain an idea of victims/survivors as typically
white, heterosexual women. In addition, we aim to
provide students with knowledge of campus and
community initiatives for victims of violence.
Ultimately, we aim to broaden the discussion of
violence in different communities to effectively
address violence as a social epidemic.

5.  25% of women and 7% of men will be
victims of domestic violence or
partner rape.
 Yearly, 3.3 million children are
exposed to interfamily violence
against their mothers or female
caretakers

6.  Only about 42% of rapes/sexual assaults
were reported to law enforcement in 2007
 1 out of 6 Americans have been the victim
of an attempted or completed rape in their
lifetime
 About 3% of men (2.78 million) have
experienced an attempted or completed
rape against them

7. 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”
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.  Many different forms of abuse:
◦ Physical battering – can range from
pushing or bruising to murder. Escalates
in level of abuse
◦ Sexual abuse – Physical attack that is
coupled with forced/unwanted sexual
activity
◦ Psychological battering – verbal abuse,
harassment, excessive possessiveness,
economic resource limiting and
destruction of personal property

9.  Stereotypical Box Exercise
◦ Womyn
◦ Men
 Jackson Katz, Clip
◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exzMPT4nGI
 The role of:
◦ Patriarchy
◦ Sexism
◦ Ism’s

10.  The experience of violence carries much
stigma in our society but there are other
barriers that contribute to the lack of
reporting:
◦ Lack of adequate services available
◦ Services that lack necessary tools to properly assess
violence in marginalized communities

11.  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

12.  A member of the agent social group who
takes a stand against social injustice
directed at target groups. An ally works to
be an agent of social change rather than an
agent of oppression.
 Four basic levels of becoming an ally
◦ Awareness
◦ Knowledge/Education
◦ Skills
◦ Action

13.  Safe House (Domestic Violence Support)
◦ 702.451.4203
 Abuse Crisis Center / DV Hotline
◦ 702.646.4981
 Rape Crisis Center
◦ 366-1640
 More information available at:
◦ The Jean Nidetch Women’s Center, UNLV
SSC A, 255 – 702.895.4475

14.  Male Survivor
www.malesurvivor.org
 Men Can Stop Rape
www.mencanstoprape.org
 Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence:
http://www.nnadv.org/
 The Rape Crisis Center of Southern Nevada:
http://www.therapecrisiscenter.org/
 The Jean Nidetch Women’s Center at UNLV:
http://womenscenter.unlv.edu/
 CyberAngels: Support group/resource center
www.cyberangels.org
 Working to Half Online Abuse (WHOA)
www.haltabuse.org
 International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists:
www.iacis.com