Recommendations
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Enhancing communication
- Making policies understandable
- Allowing alternate modes of disclosure
- Using QR codes
- Responding to questions asked anonymously
- Informing parents/guardians
- Including male student voices
- Being mindful that students disclose to friends
- Providing accounts of how the policy works
- Making the policy easy to find
- Engaging diverse student leaders in policy review
- Increasing policy awareness
- Avoiding approaches that are "too much"
- Important frameworks
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Key messages and themes for communication
- Educating about Canadian laws
- Providing consent education
- Providing sex education
- Deconstructing rape culture
- Communicating all available avenues
- Addressing the risk of retaliation
- Communicating about consequences
- Addressing concerns about wrongful accusations
- Addressing respondent rights and supports
- Avoiding multiple disclosures
- Answering the question "What counts as evidence?"
- Providing clarity about overlapping policies
- Clarifying the relationship to the CJS
- Timelines and updates
- Handling of cases according to incident location
- Addressing legal concerns of international students
- Explaining confidentiality and anonymity
- Explaining how allegations against faculty are handled
- Communicating about substance use and abuse
- Outlining policy review
- Explaining what happens when there are multiple allegations against one person
- Providing information about interim measures
- Recognizing male victims/survivors
- Detailing the process
- Communicate about cost
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Providing support
- Developing a peer support network
- Addressing online sexual violence
- Providing access to culturally diverse service providers.
- Providing access to service providers of diverse genders.
- Allowing for student choice between support people.
- Working with SANE nurses.
- Communicating collaboratively
- Providing long-term support
- Offering interpretation
- Describing how investigators are selected
- Allowing time while communicating any time constraints
- Supporting those who receive disclosures
- Highlighting option to involve support people of the student's choice.
- Safety and defense