Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center

• Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by Audre Lorde (pdf)
• Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (pdf)
• So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All "Allies" Need to Know
• The Four I's of Oppression (pdf)
• The Psychology of Victim Blaming by Kayleigh Roberts
• The Urgency of Intersectionality — TED Talk by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh (pdf)

Statistics (from RAINN)

• General Scope
• Perpetrators
• Reporting
• Survivors of Sexual Violence

Fact Sheets and Reports

• Help Exists Fact Sheet: Latinas and Sexual Violence (pdf)
• Sexual Assault and the LGBTQ Community
• Sexual Violence and Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQ: Research Brief (pdf)
• Supporting Sexual Assault Survivors with Disabilities (pdf)

Articles and Readings

• Black Women and Rape: A Review of the Literature by Jennifer C. Nash (pdf)

• Domestic Violence, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (pdf)
• Facts About Dating Abuse and Teen Violence, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (pdf)
• Is It Rape If You Say Yes? 5 Types of Sexual Coercion, Explained by Eden Strong
• Power and Control Wheel (pdf)
• Red Flags for Abusive Relationships (pdf)
• What is Abuse? The Network/La Red
• 11 Reasons Why People in Abusive Relationships Can't "Just Leave," One Love Foundation

• Stalking Information, Stalking Resource Center
• Stalking Information (Spanish), Stalking Resource Center (pdf)
• Stalking Safety Planning Guide

• PARC's Grounding Techniques Handout (pdf)
• A History of Self-Care by Aisha Harris
• 'Boring Self-Care" Drawings Celebrate Everyday Mental Health Victories by Priscilla Frank
• Five Self-Care Strategies That Aren't Mani-Pedis: Inclusive Self-Care by Kate McCombs
• Interactive Self-Care Guide by Jace Harr
• Jessamyn Stanley's 8-Minute Yoga Flow Is All About Practicing Self-Love
• Six Different Types of Grounding Exercises for Anxiety & Intense Emotions by Lexi Schmidt

Follow the links below to see a one-page handout summarizing the skills we cover in each level of Bystander Intervention training:

• Bystander Training Level One — The 5 D's (pdf)
• Bystander Training Level Two — What to Say, What Not to Say (pdf)
• Bystander Training Level Three — Strategies for Calling In (pdf)
• Bystander Training Level Four — Trauma-Informed Practices (pdf)

PARC was founded out of student activism and strives to continue to be student-centered. In 2013, a group of student activists organized to ask the administration for improvements related to sexual violence in the Brandeis community. One of these requests was the founding of the Brandeis Rape Crisis Center, which was staffed by confidential peer advocates.

In 2018, the Rape Crisis Center and the Office of Prevention Services, responsible for Bystander Intervention trainings, chose to come together under one name: the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC). Within PARC, both the peer advocates and violence prevention educators (formerly Bystander trainers) continue to do their work now with more opportunities for overlap and collaboration.

Below you can read our annual reports from recent years. These reports share some highlights from each year, as well as a broad quantitative overview of PARC's work with the Brandeis community by year.

• PARC Annual Report 2019-20 (pdf)
• PARC Annual Report 2018-19 (pdf)