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Center For Prevention & Advocacy

                                    

We understand that students choose to seek help from a variety of campus departments. Our role is to provide a web of support in helping students coordinate information and navigate between different departmental support services. Thus, we collaborate with various departments at Southern University at New Orleans including:

 

No matter where the crime occurs on or off campus or whether one chooses to file a police report or not, the Center for Prevention & Advocacy can help in a variety of ways.

What we do: An advocate, with the ongoing consent and active participation of the student, is available to:

  • explain the reporting process and assist the student, if he/she chooses, in filing a report with the appropriate law enforcement agency;
  • serve as the spokesperson for the student within the University community so that the victim's privacy and dignity are maintained in all aspects of intervention and assistance and, as necessary, serve as liaison with individuals off campus;
  • work with the student to reasonably accommodate possible disruption to the student's class attendance, class work, academic schedule, or initiate necessary changes that may result from the immediate crime and the impact of that crime;
  • offer immediate crisis intervention and initial support;
  • assist in locating appropriate on-campus and community resources, information, or remedy to meet the student's specific immediate and ongoing needs; and
  • offer a listing of attorneys who have volunteered and are available to assist a victim with legal questions and/or concerns.

This program provides comprehensive victim assistance at one convenient location. All contact with the Center for Prevention & Advocacy is handled with the utmost discretion and with the consent of the individual being served.

Call 911 (if off campus) or 504-286-3355 (if on campus) in all life-threatening circumstances.

 

 

MANDATORY REPORTING

Under university policy, most university employees are required to report situations involving sexual misconduct and discrimination to the Office of Title IX. Some of these situations may be very personal; we respect your privacy and will protect it in accordance with Southern University at New Orleans policy and FERPA. Although information about the situation may be reported to the Office of Title IX, you have the right to choose to whom you speak, what you say, when you say it and what resources you use. information provided to the Office of Title IX is considered 'private' information and will only be shared with other appropriate university personnel on a very strict 'need-to-know' basis.

Call 504-286-5362
Email scooper@suno.edu, Office of Title IX

Include what has been disclosed to you. They will ensure that the person who experienced the interpersonal violence has access to their rights and resources.