History of UC Merced CARE
In Spring 2009, the Chief of Police, Rita Spaur, initiated the development of the Violence Prevention program by collaborating with UC Merced’s Student Affairs to solicit funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). A year after, in Spring 2010, UC Merced hired their first Violence Prevention Program Coordinator, who founded UCM’s first prevention education and advocacy program on sexual violence, dating/domestic violence, and stalking prevention.
The office moved under the Chancellor’s Office in 2014, and it changed its name to the Campus Advocacy, Resources, and Education (CARE) Office. The office is currently located in KL 107. It provides crisis intervention services with the support of Valley Crisis Center, the community’s dual agency focused on domestic violence and sexual assault services.
