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Photo courtesy of Safe Place.

Chico State’s Safe Place celebrates sexual assault awareness month

Carly Campbell
April 5, 2017

April is national sexual assault awareness month. Chico State's Safe Place will be hosting a number of events to support this movement. The events that will be held are as follows: April 6:...

Healthy Relationships Week. Photo courtesy of CSU Chico Safe Place Facebook page

Healthy relationships week comes to Chico State

Alejandra Fraga
February 13, 2017

Safe Place and other associates present healthy relationships week through Feb. 13-17 at Chico State. "Healthy relationships week is more than a feel-good activity" said Alex Brown, Safe Place Advocate...

Safe Space on campus hopes to focus on sexual assault awareness. Photo courtesy of National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Safe Place launches ‘Prevention is Possible’ campaign

Eric Mcguire
April 9, 2016

This month, Safe Place takes a new approach to preventing sexual assault. April is the month dedicated to raising awareness about sexual assault. Most years the emphasis is on survivors and ways to avoid...

Dylan Saake, Chico State's Title IX coordinator and director of labor and relations and compliance, said Chico State has already established its own independent sexual assault advocate. Photo credit: Madison Holmes

CSU requires rape victim advocate

Madison Holmes
September 30, 2014
The advocate will report cases of sexual assault to an entity outside the university.
Chico State is adopting the same standards of California's new legislation, "Yes Means Yes." The Orion file photo.

‘Yes Means Yes’ bill defines consent

Madison Holmes
September 4, 2014
California's new Affirmative Consent Standard defines if and when consent was given when investigating a sexual assault.

Few male students report sexual assaults

Madison Holmes
May 13, 2014
A Chico State student talks about his experience with sexual assault years ago. Male sexual assault happens almost as often as female sexual assault, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The Chico College Confessions Facebook page has 9,004 likes and receives several confessions a day.

Victims reveal sexual assaults online

Madison Holmes
April 21, 2014
The Chico College Confessions Facebook page contains stories from sexual assault victims struggling to come forward.