NOTE: This post is dedicated to Self-Advocacy. It was considered to be a final project.
WARNING: This post contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised!
Introduction
Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination. It protects all kinds of students - uncomfirmed, male and female. It applies to universities and community colleges who have received financial aid assistance from ED. OCR was interested in evaluating, investigating and resolving complaints of discrimination. Title IX was dedicated to fostering healthy relationships. It could cover most likely to athletics, but not limited to stalking, dating violence, harassment, etc. It was not just the instituitions, but rather, it extends to the K-12, if not, probably the whole life stage group "from elementary to professional".
What is the difference between consent and non-consent?
Consent is permission to get involved in a sexual activity. It must be positively cooperative, so partners must respect the boundaries. In Washington state, you must be 16 years of age or older, yet in America, we waited two more years to do so. Non-consent is without permission, for offenders took consent very loose enough to force the victims to encounter in any activity of sex. The conduct that is short of the voluntary acquiescence to consent does not constitute as the matter of the law.
Confidentiality & Right to Privacy
Confidentiality is the protection of personal information and keeping individual files a secret from others. The right to privacy must be applied to everyday life including having to take breaks in public or private, regardless of the law. In order to stay safe and secured from harm's way during the outing, you don't need to tell anyone about such things as the social security number because it was too personal - keep in secrecy by mind.
Title IX and Disability
Unfortunately, there may be relevant federal civil rights laws other than Title IX because certain people who have disabilities would need additional support and help from the Disability Resource Center in order to deal with the incident about sexual violence. If you're deaf, find an interpreter to seek visual attention. If you have a disability with print, the paper forms were more widely available paperless than ever before, so you could zoom-in font on screen for easy reading.
Response
A coordinator must keep watch over the complaints and reports. He/she could identify the patterns of behavior and problems over the suspect. If the subject was to be informed in complex detail, it would make a lot more sense to advocate the issues being raised with or without question. Any employee is responsible to redress the incidents between the suspect and the victim of sexual violence. Advocacy must be informally required to students who may disclose. The appeal must occur before there are any further threats in the future from the suspect regardless of the history of crime.
The University of Utah Reports...
Over half of the students do not even know where to get support from campus, yet 73% had been drunk before the assault. As of October 29, 1 in 5 women will be raped compared to 1 in 71 men. 5% reported to the entity of an institution. Nearly 12% didn't respond prior to attacks. 18.8% females and 4.7% males who were both undergraduates only reported the incidents.
What to Do for Self-Advocacy in Regards of Title IX?
Why throw in the event for "Take Back the Night"? How about the rape kit? If you don't know what it is, it is a crime investigation kit that was used for collecting and testing samples from the incident that happened. It was forensically proven to look for clues to discover and test both the suspect and the victim. Look at the bright side, in order to participate in supporting Title IX with such knowledge, "Take Back the Night" was an international event that happens every year. It was attended most likely by women, but in recent years, men wanted to take part in the march to end sexual violence, date rape and domestic violence. Tracing back to Germany, Take Back the Night was originally marched for anti-porn. Suddenly, the United Kingdom got involved for the march on women's fear of walking alone in the dark and pretty soon, things went everywhere.
April is the month of sexual assault awareness, yet it coincides with being aware of autism.
Conclusion
Now that you understand how Title IX works, you could check out the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center to "end the silence" for more information. If you need a non-profit organization to participate, a book In Our Backyard by Nita Belles may be able to help.
Citation
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/qa-201404-title-ix.pdf
http://www.sltrib.com/home/4500428-155/most-university-of-utah-students-dont
http://www.feminist.com/activism/collegeactivismtb.html
http://www.kcsarc.org/
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