CBU

I think the two important points that are very, very neccessary when dealing with people from my culture is, they [service providers responding to sexual violence] just need to reassure people that what they are…

Well for me, I will let the counsellor know- don’t play the race card with me. Don’t say, “Do you think this happened to you because you are Black?” No, if you say that to…

Participant 1: I would expect the counsellor to be empathetic, just like I said earlier too – be able to connect and not judge at all. ‘Cause, when you are asking questions that may be…

From my point of view, the survivor is not the problem. The problem is from the respondent; it’s not from the survivor. If you want to stop the sexual assault, we have to look at…

My parents let me come here because, to be honest, Canada is one of the safest places, most worth[while] places to live for a reason. There is a reason for it; and one of the…

[If a friend disclosed to me], before I [talk] to the victim, the survivor, I would ask myself if the survivor would like to talk to me, or are they comfortable to talk about it…

Southern Asian people don’t use much service on the campus because, as I said in the beginning, due to the cultural difference, so we are afraid of being losing face or being retaliated [against], right?

I think it is good if we can have any informal infographic or any report saying that throughout the last few years, or maybe an annual report showing how frequently the policy has been implemented…

If I’m a survivor I need to have a very trustworthy person who can help me with the situation I’m facing. Like, I trust them [with] my situation; they are not having any doubt about…

People that have the problem with sexual assault, that’s a very sensitive problem and they need an advisor uhh that to listen to their story and understand them and sympathize with them.