Safety, Vigilance Are the Focus During This Halloween Season

The UCSB Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education (CARE), formerly Rape Prevention and Education Program, encourages all Gauchos to be vigilant about their safety, particularly during this Halloween season!

Stephanie Jones, Campus AdvocateCARE is working to shift the culture of UCSB and Isla Vista by educating students about interpersonal violence, prevention and safety. You can help to create change too by intervening when you see a potentially dangerous situation or calling resources such as UCSB Police at 805-893-3449 or Isla Vista Foot Patrol at 805-681-4179.

UCSB takes all forms of violence very seriously and the campus recently received a $300,000 grant from the Department of Justice to support prevention and response efforts on campus. As part of the grant, CARE hired a third full-time campus advocate, Stephanie Jones, to help students who have been impacted by dating violence, stalking and sexual assault.

Providing support for students and working with campus student leaders to prevent interpersonal violence is our priority.

If you are interested in working with CARE to be a leader on campus in preventing and responding to interpersonal violence, you’re in luck. CARE is currently recruiting for graduate student CARE liaisons who can represent graduate student concerns regarding interpersonal violence on campus and to serve as a resource to other graduate students impacted by violence.

If you are interested in becoming a CARE liaison, please contact Jill Dunlap, Director of CARE in the Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, at 805-893-2628.

CARE urges anyone who is affected by interpersonal violence to contact us at 805-893-4613 for advocacy and resources. Happy Halloween, Gauchos!

Men Against Rape & Students Stopping Rape posted these fliers on campus. Photos by Patricia Marroquin