SPACE stands for Sexual Assault Prevention And Community Equity. This SPACE toolkit provides campuses a new approach to sexual violence prevention – one grounded in a broad commitment to equity. The process invites diverse stakeholders, from students to the senior administration, to be on the same team. The work rests upon a simple and well-established truth: assault is about power. The SPACE toolkit uses that truth to develop a plan for campus transformation. 

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Webinars

April 7th, 2023: In honor of sexual assault awareness month, Jennifer and Shamus led a panel including fellow SPACE team member, Dr. Brooke West, and representatives from two of the schools in the inaugural cohort applying the SPACE toolkit; Ashley Ruderman-Loof from UMass Dartmouth, and both Jess Adams and Sarah Olejniczak from St. Norbert’s. You can watch the video (with captions!) here.

April 26, 2022: Jennifer, Shamus, and LB Klein did a launch webinar about the SPACE Toolkit. Here is the video.

May 31st, 2022: Jennifer, Shamus, and Joseph Storch and Elizabeth Brady of Grand River Solutions launch webinar. Here is a link to the page with the video.

More of a podcast person? Check out this podcast that we did with Melanie Bennett, Senior Risk Management Counsel at United Educators, talking about the SPACE toolkit.

Check this out for some great tips on how to run meetings (useful for the SPACE task force you will form on your campus): “A Governance Challenge Presents A Governance Opportunity: Lessons from the State University of New York Sexual Assault Prevention Working Group” by Storch, J., A.I. Stagg, P.L.K Knuepfer, M. Asselin, and L. Mould, originally published in Shared Governance in Higher Education: New Paradigms, Evolving Perspectives. Volume 2, edited by S.F. Cramer (2017, SUNY Press).