1. Title IX: Empowering Staff to Partner for Compliance
Lindsey Bartlett Mosvick
Assistant Director for Violence Prevention
University of Mississippi

2. About Me
Assistant Director for Violence Prevention

3. What does the Violence Prevention Office do?
Victim Advocacy
Empowerment driven approach
Services available for students who experience sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking

4. Services Provided Accommodations Academic Housing
Safe rooms
Safety (no contact letters, escorts)
Parking
Counseling
Health
Anything a student may need to feel safe and comfortable on campus

5. Trainings Completed In conjunction with Title IX Office…
Key faculty and staff in person training
Orientation training for new students
Targeted first year training
Targeted training for athletics and Greek-affiliated students

6. Title IX: Responsible employees
Your institution sets precise definition
Includes any employee
who has the authority to take action to redress sexual violence;
who has been given the duty of reporting incidents of sexual violence or any other misconduct by students to the Title IX Coordinator or other appropriate University designee;
or whom a student could reasonably believe has this authority or duty

7. Clery: Campus Security Authorities (CSAs)
An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline and campus judicial proceedings
Faculty only CSAs if also advisors to student organizations

8. Reaching your Responsible Employees
What groups have reported the most Title IX incidents in the past?
What groups are most likely to receive Title IX reports?
What trainings already exist or happen on my campus that you can join or loop into?
Who does Clery compliance on my campus that I can collaborate and share the administrative work with?

9. Getting buy in Shared obligation: the campus helps each other
Equip them to hand off the issue
Even if some things change, students have organized around this issue
Public relations -> admissions
Retention
What barriers do you see for responsible employee training at your institution?

10. Key training messages How to handle student disclosures
How to refer to resources
How to make reports to Title IX
Partnering for accommodations
Make the training work for you, too

11. How to handle disclosures
What counts?
Any incident of sexual discrimination, not limited by time or place (UM position)
Will this happen to me?
When will it happen?
If a student asks you to keep something confidential, explain your obligation first and offer them truly confidential resources

12. How to handle disclosures
Be nice
Believe the student
Do not investigate
Questions: are you safe? What can I do?
Be clear
Explain your reporting obligation
Refer student to resources – options, not obligations
Be private
Do not report up
Report ONLY to Title IX

13. How to refer Explaining what Title IX is: Provide the right resources:
Student still controls process
Provide the right resources:
Campus resources and accommodations
Local nonprofits
Most common questions:
Tell parents?
Will this cost anything?
Tell police?

14. Providing Accommodations
The institution has an obligation to provide reasonable accommodations
Tailor this section to your training group
Example: Faculty
Excused absences
Extensions on assignments or tests
Exams taken outside of classroom
Moving students to different sections

15. Training that works Include multi-modal and experiential tools:
Consent tea video
Role play
Group work

16. Understanding the Secondary Trauma
Exercise based on “In Her Shoes” and adapated from DCCADV
Note: descriptions and treatment of characters may be difficult to read

17. Running through our activity
What do you think the intent of this activity is?
How do you think your faculty or staff would react to it?
Is it a realistic measure for assessing processes and how to be trauma-informed?

18. Title IX Tools: Risk Assessment
Understand and evaluate the risk
Utilize tools!
Domestic Violence Lethality Assessment
Developed and implemented by the Maryland Coalition Against Domestic Violence
SHARP (Stalking and Harassment Risk Profile)
Developed by a research team at the University of Kentucky

19. Domestic Violence Lethality Assessment
10 questions
Developed over time by evaluating factors most likely to contribute to DV homicide
Some are more predictable and intuitive:
Access to guns
Others are less so
Pregnancy

20. SHARP tool Designed to be confidential
Assesses multiple matrices of behaviors
Develops personalized assessment and tools/tips
Not victim blaming

21. What’s Next? Possible changes to standard of proof
Rescission of Dear Colleague letters
Gender identity (also pending litigation)
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act implementation
More Congressional action?
Mississippi HB 1039

22. Questions? Lindsey Bartlett Mosvick
Assistant Director for Violence Prevention
University Counseling Center
University of Mississippi
320 Lester Hall