{"id":740,"date":"2019-11-19T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascblogs.lib.purdue.edu\/fall2019-honors49900\/?p=740"},"modified":"2020-01-27T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:49:03","slug":"s-h-e-sisters-for-health-education-c-a-r-e-center-for-advocacy-response-and-education-how-advocacy-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascblogs.lib.purdue.edu\/fall2019-honors49900\/2019\/11\/19\/s-h-e-sisters-for-health-education-c-a-r-e-center-for-advocacy-response-and-education-how-advocacy-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"S.H.E. (Sisters for Health Education) & C.A.R.E. (Center for Advocacy, Response, and Education): How Advocacy Changes Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\" I would imagine that the presence of the [emergency] phones will give many students, especially females, a psychological sense of security needed on a campus as large as ours.\"<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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     Today, walk down any path on Purdue\u2019s campus at night and you will find numerous glowing blue lights positioned atop black boxes along your way. When the button housed on their face is pressed, these boxes act as an emergency help system to immediately dial Purdue\u2019s police department (P.P.D.), letting officers know exactly which button was pressed and where it is located. For about half of Purdue\u2019s population, it will seldom be used. For the other half, it is something many women and minorities follow steadfastly nearly every day. When Purdue\u2019s emergency phones were first installed in 1971, there were only 41 \u201cyellow enamel boxes with yellow lights on top.\u201d Each housed a phone without a dialing mechanism, all of which were strewn across campus and automatically connected to the P.P.D. when picked up. Douglas Forsman, Purdue\u2019s then Fire Protection Specialist said in an interview, \u201cI would imagine that the presence of the phones will give many students, especially females, a psychological sense of security needed on a campus as large as ours.\u201d (1) Considering that we have only continued to amass new alert phones, this leads me to believe that people find Forsman\u2019s thought to be the present case as well. For a said \u2018person in trouble,\u2019 one could be reporting theft, attacks, or other forms of violence. With the help of the Purdue Police Department, there are many methods of stopping or fighting crime on campus. But what has Purdue done for those perpetrated against?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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                                                 It all started with S.H.E. <\/b><\/p>\n

     One of the most notorious organizations for women\u2019s health stationed in Purdue\u2019s community, Sisters for Health Education (S.H.E.) was a grassroots organization that paved the way for further women\u2019s advocacy offices at Purdue. As is stated in a letter from one of its founders, Sisters for Health Education was \u201ccomposed of women at Purdue and the surrounding community\u201d in order to spread sexual knowledge. (4) S.H.E. was responsible for running sexual education training courses, rape training and counseling. They also lobbied for a gynecologist to be provided in Purdue\u2019s student health center after a controversy surrounding a more conservative nurse purposely mistreating women patients because she believed they should face consequences for participating in sexual activity. (5) Upon discovery of the organization\u2019s papers, which disbanded only a few years after its 1979 beginning, Dana Bisignani, a 2016 graduate assistant working in the Women\u2019s Archives interpreted and analyzed the archival material before formatting a historical blog post over it. (6) Hence, I will not delve further into S.H.E.\u2019s history, but rather, acknowledge its \u2018future\u2019 as the forefront for C.A.R.E.\u2019s (Center for Rape, Advocacy, and Education) conception. <\/span><\/p>\n

                                                 Does Purdue C.A.R.E.?<\/b><\/p>\n

     C.A.R.E. did not become established until 2015 (doors opened beginning the 2016-2017 academic year) due to years of pushback from the university.  Such was used in Purdue\u2019s argument that no such advocacy center needed to be created because we already had this service to offer. In agreement with Purdue at the time, Alysa Rollock who oversaw the university’s anti-harassment policies as Title IX coordinator in 2015, maintained the stance that \u201cit would not be an appropriate use of resources\u201d despite \u201cthe idea for such a center\u201d not being new and student groups having \u201craised the issue in the past.\u201d (2) Four \u2018trained staff members\u2019 and rape kits were offered at C.A.P.S. (Counseling and Psychological Services) and P.U.S.H. (Purdue University Student Healthcenter) at the time, yet the offices were only receiving about 10 to 12 sexual assault cases a year. This provided evidence of a great amount of underreporting and lack of knowledge about the services offered when later compared to the percent of those assaulted annually at Purdue. Even when students were informed, survivors of sexual assault were most often refered to the Crisis Center in Lafayette, a near impossible destination for those without cars on campus nor the resources to get there another way. It was also true that student groups -both official and unofficial- such as the earlier S.H.E. and later Purdue Social Justice Coalition called for this type of center; many individual students themselves (Dana Bisignani included) wrote the university about these problems. In the meantime those organizations filled the role as education and peer support providers. With such strong feelings towards this topic being displayed by the students, I don’t understand how Purdue failed to recognize that creating an advocacy center would, in fact, be a fit use of resources. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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     In the face of report from the Association of American Universities detailing that 22% of Purdue students had experienced sexual assault since beginning at the university and fear of harsher backlash, Purdue stepped up to take action. In the beginning of the next academic year, in an open letter to Purdue\u2019s campus and community, President Mitch Daniels addressed the results. This is also when the plans of C.A.R.E. were publicly released. (3) (The original memo sent by President Daniels from the time the report was released has since been deleted, but reference to a later message detailing the university\u2019s awareness of the gravity of the statistics has been provided.) <\/span><\/p>\n

      The center is a division of the Office of the Dean of Students and offers completely confidential support, advocacy, and resources for not only survivors but those close to them as well. In fact, C.A.R.E. provides free workshops campus-wide that center on \u201csexual violence, consent, and bystander intervention, among other topics\u201d in the hopes to expand knowledge and inform allies. Despite the fact that the Center for Advocacy, Response And Education is an early twenty-first century matter, its roots are tied deeply in the later half of the twentieth century. If you consider what is currently known of the Purdue history of women\u2019s and overall sexual education, especially as detailed reports from the community and student organizations founded on that basis through the seventies to 2010\u2019s, C.A.R.E. would not have begun without them. How does advocacy change the Purdue student\u2019s experience? In every way. <\/span><\/p>


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