Clery Center National Campus Safety Awareness Month

Featuring: Jessica A. Mertz | Executive Director, Clery Center Bill Mitchell | Board Member, Clery Center and author of When Dating Hurts Jessica converses with author and advocate Bill Mitchell as he shares the inspiration for his new book When Dating Hurts. [https://www.whendatinghurts.com/] Bill will  discuss one of the other health crises the global pandemic brought to light in 2020- intimate partner violence.

Featuring: Sarah F. Barrett | Director of Training & Education, Clery Center Ruth Perrin | Senior Counsel for the Campus Violence Project, Network for Victim Recovery of DC Naida Henao | Managing Counsel for Strategic Advocacy & Communications, Network for Victim Recovery of DC Join us as we sit down with Ruth Perrin and Naida Henao from Network for Victim Recovery of DC (NVRDC) [https://www.nvrdc.org/] to discuss how intersectionality plays a role in their ability to deliver culturally-safe and equity-informed services.

Featuring: Sarah F. Barrett | Director of Training & Education, Clery Center Jessica A. Mertz | Executive Director, Clery Center Sarah and Jessica discuss how the historic events of 2020 can guide conversations about personal and campus safety. Although the same obligations under the Clery Act apply, our campus communities must embrace the differences. This year has brought many new challenges and lessons, and yet the goals of campus safety remain the same. Join us as we examine how much of the work we do is the same, yet different this year.

National Campus Safety Awareness Month September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month and each year Clery Center provides professional development resources and learning opportunities to support your work on campus. Learn more about this year’s theme and connect to this year’s resources below. The Same, Yet Different In the wake of COVID-19 and an advancing civil rights movement, institutions around the nation are reaffirming their commitments to campus safety. As communities wrestle with a new normal, the Clery Act remains the same— a call to action. This September, Clery Center will highlight how the Clery Act can serve as a guidepost, centering conversations around personal and campus safety following the historic events of 2020. Whether examining the increase in reports of intimate partner violence during lockdown, or the uptick in hate crimes and bias-related incidents, the Clery Act can serve as the barometer to examine campus climate. There is little doubt that 2020 will go down in history. So, please plan to join us this September to explore the Clery Act’s continued relevance as we enter a fall semester that will be the same, yet very different.