Current Status of Recommendations on Services, Programs and Community Engagement

In Spring 2024, the university contracted Possibility Seeds to provide recommendations to help guide the Sexual Assault Centre’s programs and activities throughout the 2024-25 academic year and beyond. The university has received 42 recommendations in eight categories: organizational structure and staff support, protocols and procedures, core and program services, support services, education program, volunteer program, community engagement and systemic advocacy, and building trust. Their recommendations were informed by conversations with campus partners and community members, a literature review and data from the 2023 Alberta Campus Climate Survey on Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and 20+ years of leadership and participation in campus sexual violence prevention.

Under the guidance of Dunsi Strohschein, Assistant Dean, the small and growing Community Wellness Supports team has already started the expansive and important task of carefully reviewing and immediately integrating or actioning the recommendations according to resources available, or prioritizing for additional exploration alongside student representatives and other internal and external community partners where appropriate. The current status of activities is also included below.

For more information on the U of A’s Sexual Assault Centre’s revitalization year:

• Recommendations for the University of Alberta Sexual Assault Centre’s Community Engagement and Action Plan
• Current Status of Recommendations on Services, Programs and Community Engagement for the U of A’s Sexual Assault Centre
• See a Message from Dr. Dunsi Strohschein, inaugural Assistant Dean, Community Wellness Supports 
• See Community Engagement + Action Plan 2024-25