Purpose
The purpose of this policy is three-fold:
- To prevent sexualized violence by indicating the seriousness with which the university views and responds to this issue;
- To be educational, in that its existence will increase awareness of the impacts of sexualized violence and of options, resources, and services available to those who have experienced sexualized violence and to members of the university community generally; and
- To provide timely, coordinated, consistent, and fair response to disclosures and reports of sexualized violence.
Sexualized Violence Policy summary
Read a summary of the policy [PDF-2.3MB] in a printable format. Although the summary provides a lot of important information, the policy, above, is the official document that all processes will follow.
What to expect:
Disclosure, under Dalhousie’s Sexualized Violence Policy, means describing an experience of sexualized violence to the sexualized violence advisor (or any member of the university community designated by the policy):
- You can share as little or as much you are comfortable with;
- Disclosing an experience of sexualized violence does not generally start any other process; and
- You may disclose in person or anonymously.
Reporting to the university, under the Sexualized Violence Policy, means describing your experience of sexualized violence in writing to the sexualized violence advisor (and in some cases other members of the university community).
When reporting, you will need to provide:
- The names of everyone involved,
- A detailed description of the behavior that forms the basis of the report, and
- What you would like to see from the process.
Reporting an experience of sexualized violence can start a university process through an investigative or non-investigative stream.
There is no deadline to make a disclosure or report.
Disclosures and reports of sexualized violence will be kept confidential to the greatest extent possible, within the limitations described in the policy.