Infrastructure: Strengthen and Sustain Your CCRT

1. Infrastructure: Strengthen and Sustain Your CCRT Barbara Paradiso Training and Technical Assistance Institute I February , 2016 FY 2015 Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus Program

2. Our Work for this TTI • Establish foundational understanding of coordinated campus response teams (CCRT) • Strengthen CCRT infrastructure and capacity to carry out Campus Program work

3. Our Work for Today Session Goal – Strengthen CCRT Infrastructure and Capacity for Expansion: to define and prioritize operationalization and institutionalization of OVW funded project components. Objectives: • Grantees will be able to more clearly define the purpose and work of their CCRT by identifying shared values. • Grantees will be able to clearly articulate the relationship between CCRT and program implementation. • Grantees will be able to define structure and function as appropriate for their campus.

4. Topics to Cover • Welcome and Introductions • Session Goal and Objectives • Setting the Cornerstones (Continued) • Working Together Across Differences (Process) • Shared Values (Process) • Structure (Implementation) • Closure

5. Working Together Across Differences QUICK TALK! In campus-affiliated groups: • Generate a list of terms and acronyms used in association with your SA, DDV, and Stalking work. • Identify words that refer to the same person/thing, (e.g. survivor = complainant = victim). • Discuss the meaning & connotations of each term, especially those that have multiple connotations. • Identify any barriers to working together that may arise from the use of language.

6. Basic Agreements • Not just your average business meeting • Setting the stage for potentially emotionally charged and/or contentious discussions • Be Brave! • Create agreements - Practice!

7. Shared Values Why shared values: • Nature of any coalition is that disparate group of people who join for a common purpose (Bernice Reagan – Sweet Honey in the Rock – “the hardest work.” • Defines what that slice of the pie is that is common ground • Clarifies who you are as a group and what you stand for • Helps with decision making • Guides conduct; a moral compass

8. Exercise Form two small groups within your team: • Brainstorm values you hold as a group (Campus CCRT). • Answer the questions provided. (Need ideas? – use the Sample Values list). • Identify 3-6 values your small group can agree to. • Join with your other team members and share your lists. Select your top shared values (no more than 6). • Create a draft values statement for your CCRT by writing up a brief description of what each value means (See sample values statements for guidance).

9. Structure QUICK TALK! • Count off to 20 • Pick a card from those laid out around the room that illustrates your perfect CCRT. • Find your group (e.g. all 1’s or all 12’s). • Share why you picked the card you did. Discuss similarities, differences, themes.

10. A Framework for Implementation • Infrastructure • Organizational Model • Size • Meetings • Roles and Responsibilities • Functionality • Decision making • Communications; Dissemination of information • Accountability • Formalizing Relationships • MOU’s • Addressing Confidentiality • Response Protocols

11. Exercise Together as your TTI Team: • Define/draft a CCRT Structure appropriate for your campus • Respond to the three (3) structure areas discussed above (Infrastructure; Functionality; Formalizing relationships). • Full group – share challenges and surprises.

12. Bringing it Home Over the next several months, as a full CCRT: • Identify an ideal membership for your CCRT and make progress toward convening it • Determine a mission statement • Affirm a set of basic agreements • Created a Values Statement; or, at minimum, define your shared values • Establish an initial organizational structure that facilitates effective completion of work

13. Some Things to Keep in Mind • Be realistic, • Be resourceful, • Be creative, • Be patient Program development and execution is dynamic (always moving and shifting), sometimes messy, continuous, and not necessarily linear.

14. Closure • Questions? • Thank You! Contact: Barbara.paradiso@ucdenver.edu