AUSTIN, Texas – With an estimated one-in-five women sexually assaulted during college, a new effort is under way to help schools do a better job with prevention and response.
\nThe White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has 90 days to come up with recommendations.
\nThose should include the training of college leadership and responders on treating the issue as the serious crime it is, says Annette Burrhus-Clay, executive director of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault.
\n\u201cThere has been a tendency with many universities – certainly not all, but many universities – to handle sexual assaults as a disciplinary issue rather than a criminal issue,\u201d Burrhus-Clay maintains. \u201cAnd so even when rape victims have come forward, the response they\u2019ve gotten from the university has not necessarily been adequate.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"One](\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gr-37184-1-1.jpg\")
One effort that continues to grow nationwide to raise awareness and get men more involved in sexual assault prevention is called \u201cWalk a Mile in Her Shoes.\u201d Photo credit: Tulane Public Relations<\/p><\/div>\n
Those who have been sexually assaulted are more likely to later have depression, battle substance abuse or suffer from a wide range of physical ailments.
\nIn announcing the creation of the task force this past week, President Barack Obama also called on men to become more involved in prevention and speaking out.
\nBurrhus-Clay says that could really help shift the tide.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s been more and more moves towards having really effective bystander intervention,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe know that you can\u2019t end rape if you can\u2019t stop perpetration.
\n\u201cAnd I think for too long efforts have been put out on risk reduction and what women need to do to make themselves safer as opposed to getting more men involved.\u201d
\nIn the U.S., it\u2019s estimated that about 22 million women and 1.6 million men have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Odds of College Woman Being Assaulted: 1 in 5 by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas – With an estimated one-in-five women sexually assaulted during college, a new effort is under way to help schools do a better job with prevention and response. The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has 90 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}