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The University of Idaho Women’s Center received a $299,944 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women.
The grant will fund its efforts to implement culturally relevant and community-responsive prevention education, as well as victim services at the university.
“At a time of increasingly limited resources for student support services, this funding is critical to maintain and expand the innovative prevention education programming and victim advocacy services developed within the last grant cycle,” said Lysa Salsbury, grant principal investigator and U of I Women’s Center director.
The project will also provide faculty and staff with further training on awareness of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
The University of Idaho Womenâs Center received the continuation of a $299,944 grant from the U.S. Department of Justiceâs Office on Violence Against Women to fund its Campus Violence Prevention Project.
The grant will fund ongoing efforts to develop and implement culturally relevant and community responsive prevention education programming as well as victim services at the university, according to a press release from the UI today. The project has an outreach emphasis to underrepresented students, with increased focus on stalking prevention and developing accessibility to programs and services for students with disabilities.
UIâs Violence Prevention Programs Office was awarded the grant during 2002-04, 2004-06 and 2006-09. The Womenâs Center applied for and received the grant in 2016-20.