Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault

This project provides training and technical assistance to institutions of higher education on developing effective victim services and advocacy programs for college students, including capacity building, referral processes, collaborative victim service models with local victim service providers, and training for campus advocates.

The Culturally Specific Campus Consortium provides customized, intensive training and technical assistance that is rooted in a culture-specific framework, reflects the campus community, and promotes best practices in addressing violence against women on campus. The project assists culturally specific campuses in developing a comprehensive approach to addressing VAWA crimes that includes establishing coordinated community response teams, effective response protocols, victim services, and multi-faceted prevention programming.

The Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MSCASA) provides technical assistance to institutions of higher education, including institutions in the Gulf region, that are funded under the FY 2024 OVW Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program to document their work and develop promising practices guides that serve as a model for higher education institutions to implement and expand victim services offered to sexual assault survivors.

This project provides technical assistance and resources to Campus grantees and institutions of higher education through an online clearinghouse.