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I want to make her feel as comfortable as she can in doing whatever she feels like she needs to do. I don’t know, because you can’t put yourself in that other person’s shoes, so…

You have to dig through a bunch of irrelevant pages on the Saint Mary’s website to actually find the sexual violence policy. Um, and then that is basically it; there are no supporting documents around…

Participant 1: The support person should be honest about what they can provide and what they can’t provide. Maybe they are being triggered themselves and really can’t be there, and as difficult as that would…

Try not to interject your own opinions or your own little comments about the situation. I’m thinking more so security people who could be the first contact after something like this happens- they might not…

I went to somebody who was a former professor of mine, who told me that if I reported, I would lose my degree, and I’d get kicked out. I felt swayed from coming forward and…

A document that is really wordy is not accessible necessarily for someone whose [unclear] English is a second language, including people whose first language is a sign language, ASL or NSL- they’re often very wordy…

I would think whatever your role is at Saint Mary’s […] there is ongoing professional development. Your role that you perform generally at the university – you should have some orientation or discussion or something…

Just typing it into a search engine or going to the Mount website might feel overwhelming. It would be nice to have, like, I’m always a fan of posters that feel more like I’m in…

I was also going to add that there are … because I’m also a victim of it, sometimes you don’t even want to identify yourself as that. So, when there are trickier situations, like you…

I wrote a lot of side notes [pointing to her draft of the policy], and it was along the lines of […] how is a person going to get support? Who is a person going…