After two years, an ASU club's goal of a campus violence prevention center will be met next fall.
The University will centralize various existing anti-violence and support programs to form the Home Safe: Violence Prevention and Advocacy Center.
These programs are now scattered throughout the campus.
"There is a real need to centralize and coordinate the services that will be offered," said Bob Soza, associate vice president and dean of Student Life.
Soza said services would be free for all ASU students.
ASU V-Day, a club that aims to end violence against all people, first proposed the center to student government in 2002.
The center will provide information and resources regarding sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. A 24-hour hotline will also be established.
The center will be located in the Student Health and Wellness Center.
Women's studies senior and co-chair of V-Day, Lauryn Vosburgh, said the idea for a center came from a need to do more activism on campus.
The resolution was later passed by student government and supported by Soza and Mary Rimsza, director of student health, Vosburgh said.
ASU V-Day will serve as an advisory board for Home Safe.
"There's a lot of services available at ASU, but they're hard to find and you end up getting the runaround," she said. "Every single campus in the world needs this."
The center will make it easier for students to seek help or information, said Connie Engel, co-director of the Vagina Monologues and a justice studies graduate student.
After two years, the club is excited the center will be established, she said.
"[We are] astounded and thrilled," she said. "It started as this little nugget of a dream and it is just incredible to see our effort come into fruition."
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