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The following organizations are working to end sexual and domestic violence
in Central Virginia:
At UVA:
- Sexual Assault
Facts & Education: A student-led peer education group that
offers workshops for UVA students on sexual assault, dating violence,
assertiveness training and (forthcoming) ally intervention skills for
men.
- One in Four: An all-male peer education group that offers programs
for men on helping sexual assault survivors.
- Peer Health
Educators: The Peer Health Educators are dedicated to providing
health education and community support with sensitivity to race, gender,
sexual orientation, culture, religion, and individual capabilities.
- National Organization
for Women: UVA NOW organizes the annual Take Back the Night
March and Rally in April, and works as an activist group to end oppression
of women in all its forms.
- UVA Women's Center:
In addition to housing the Sexual Assault Education Office, the UVA
Women's Center brings scholars and artists to the University, some of
whom address issues of violence; offers a resource library, individual
and group counseling, and mentoring programs.
In the Charlottesville/Albemarle
County Area:
- Charlottesville/Albemarle Council on Sexual and Domestic Violence:
a coalition of local agencies working to improve services and the criminal
justice system for survivors of sexual and domestic violence.
- Sexual Assault
Resource Agency: Provides 24-hour hotline crisis services for
survivors of sexual assault and their significant others, companion
services to the hospital and police, individual and group counseling,
advocacy, education for adults, teens, and children, and self-defense
courses.
- Shelter for Help
in Emergency: Provides 24-hour hotline crisis services for survivors
of domestic/dating violence and their significant others. Non-resident
counseling (individual and group) and shelter services for abused women
and their children. Emergency shelter arranged for abused men at a separate
location.
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