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What is the Haven Project?        

The Haven Project is a grant funded program intended to increase and improve counseling and advocacy services for campus women who experience violence. The Haven Project funds efforts to enhance and evaluate prevention education about stalking, dating/relationship violence and sexual assault. It was developed in collaboration with the Center for Student Life, University Police and the Alice Paul House.

Why The Haven Project?

In 2002, the Center for Student Life and a Marketing class conducted an on-campus survey of students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and found that 87 percent of students indicated sexual assault was a concern on campus. Also, 67 percent of those surveyed reported knowing someone who had been sexually assaulted. However, in 2002 only seven cases of forcible sex offenses were reported to University Police and officials. Clearly, most incidents of violence are never reported. The Haven Project was designed to help women access needed services and to work to eliminate violence against women.

You can seek help through IUP's Haven Project!

 

Stalking One in twelve women and one in forty-five men will be stalked during their lifetimes. Eighty percent of campus stalking victims know their stalker. Three out of ten college women reported being injured emotionally or psychologically as a result of stalking. Stalking is a crime in all fifty states. What is Stalking? According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specific person to feel fear (www.ncvc.org/src). For example, Wanda broke up with Harry last week, but he continues to call her every day. Although Wanda has ignored Harry's calls, he continues  to try to reach her daily. He also seems to show up everywhere that Wanda goes. Wanda does not feel safe going anywhere alone.

Dating/Relationship Violence Relationship violence is any harmful or unwanted physical, verbal, sexual or emotional inflicted by a casual or intimate partner with the intention of causing pain to another person. Here are some warning signs to look for in a potentially violent relationship: Being told by your partner who you can be friends with, what you can wear and where you can go Your partner gets jealous for no reason Your partner drinks heavily, uses drugs Your partner experiences extreme highs and lows

Sexual Assault According to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), one out of every four women have experienced rape or an attempted rape by the age of 18. That means that on a college campus, one out of every four women may have experienced sexual assault. What is Sexual Assault? Sexual assault occurs whenever an individual feels forced, coerced and/or manipulated into unwanted sexual activity. This assault includes rape, incest, child sexual assault, ritual abuse, date and acquaintance rape, marital or partner rape, sexual exploitation, sexual contact, sexual harassment, exposure and voyeurism. Sexual Assault can also occur when individuals are unable to consent to sexual activity, such as when a person has been drinking, using drugs or may be unconscious.