The Jean Nidetch Care Center at UNLV receives significant federal grant from the Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, totaling approximately $400,000, will be instrumental in advancing our power-based violence prevention and response initiative, enabling the Care Center to make a profound difference on those impacted by sexual violence, domestic/dating violence, and stalking.
The UNLV Campus and Community Violence Prevention Project aims to launch a Coordinated Community Response Team to streamline victim services, improve access to culturally responsive and language inclusive victim services, develop and implement mandatory prevention education curriculum, and improve faculty and staff knowledge of responding to incidents of interpersonal violence through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and anti-oppression lens.
The awarded funds will be utilized to hire additional staff including a Spanish Bilingual Case Manager, develop and implement culturally responsive violence prevention programs on campus, and create a Coordinated Community Response Team to prevent and respond to instances of sexual violence, domestic/dating violence and stalking. The grant period is expected to run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, during which time we will diligently work towards achieving our goals and maximizing the impact of this significant investment.
About the Care Center:
The Jean Nidetch Care Center serves UNLV, CSN, and NSU students, faculty, and staff who have been impacted by sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship abuse, family violence, and/or stalking. The center operates from an anti-oppression framework to provide trauma-informed and healing-centered care, including: client service and case management advocacy, holistic healing programming, training and development of advocates, campus education and student engagement, and institutional and systemic advocacy.
About Nevada GrantLab:
Nevada GrantLab, a nonprofit corporation, started in 2020 with a vision to help nonprofits, local governments, and State agencies better access and maximize historically underutilized federal funding that can be used to build greater quality of life and opportunity for all Nevadans. Learn more at nevadagrantlab.org.
