ABSTRACT
If you build it, they will come. For nearly 30 years, our campus peer advocacy and prevention education program has activated students from diverse academic, gender, and racial/ethnic backgrounds to contribute their time and energy to fight sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking on campus. Each year, our program, based at a large, Midwest, Research Institution, receives inquiries from colleges and universities of all sizes, both private and public, from states and countries all over the world, wanting to learn more about the work our student volunteers do and how our program is set up to train them. We have witnessed through trial and triumph that peer programs allow students to connect with each other effectively while providing campus-based victim advocacy services and prevention education.
