Coordinated Community Response
Coordinated Community Response
The Coordinated Community Response Team area specializes in the capacity-building, development, and sustainability for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Teams to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS) on college campuses.
Here you can find essential tools, best practices, and expert guidance to support your efforts in establishing, developing, and sustaining effective CCR Teams.
Check Out Our New Campus Resources Below!
All departments on campus play a role in building safe, supportive campus cultures. To enhance this collaborative effort, we are excited to introduce 3 new resources from NOVA’s Coordinated Community Response (CCR) technical assistance team.
This resource offers a foundational introduction to creating a CCR Team on campus. Learn how to orient administrative leadership, inform stakeholders and partners, and introduce the significance of a CCR Team to the wider campus community. This training guide is accompanied by a 3-minute Laying the Foundation Video, featuring current and former Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Campus Program grantees.
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Any Team member can use this guide as a step-by-step tool to create or assess your campus’ protocols that address domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVSAS). The robust appendix includes sample protocols, an advocacy notification decision tree, training and meeting agendas, and reporting options charts used by grantee campuses.
This quick 3-page read provides practical strategies to strengthen CCR Teams, including: ways to ensure stability and predictability during changes, promoting consistency, simplifying decision-making, and adapting quickly to new challenges.
Browse our digital toolkits and resources for Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Teams, available in English and Spanish.
Building CCR Teams
- Building a CCR Team EMPOWER Series Guide for Facilitators | Part 1 Laying the Foundation
- [Video] Building a CCR Team EMPOWER Series | Part 1: Laying the Foundation
Building A Coordinated Community Response Team Infographic - Building Coordinated Community Response Teams to Address Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Toolkit
- Project Director Guide for Success
- OVW Campus Program Project Director Sample Job Description
Best Practices for CCR Teams
- Protocol Guide for CCR Teams
- Building Resilience in CCR Teams Tipsheet
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Campus-Based CCR Teams Toolkit
- Mobilizing the CCR team to Support Clery Act Implementation Toolkit
- CCR Sustainability Self Assessment Toolkit
- Virtual Meeting Facilitation Strategies: CCR Team Tip Sheet
Recursos en Español
[Video] Serie EMPODERAMIENTO Construyendo un Comité Coordinador | Parte 1: Sentando las Bases
- Construyendo Equipos de Respuesta Coordinada de la Comunidad para Abordar la Violencia Doméstica, la Violencia en Relaciones de Pareja, la Agresión Sexual y el Acecho en la Universidad
- Director/a de Proyecto Guía para el Éxito
- Programa Campus de OVW Ejemplo de la Descripción de Posición para el/la Director/a del Proyecto
- Comité Coordinador (CCR) Actividades de planificación del primer año
- Evaluación de la Eficacia de los Equipos de Respuesta Comunitaria Coordinada en Campuses
- Movilizando al Comité Coordinador (CCR) para apoyar la implementación de la Ley Clery
- Centrando los Servicios a las Víctimas en un Comité Coordinador de la Universidad
- Estrategias de Comunicación Para el Comité Coordinador
- Autoevaluación de Sustentabilidad Para el Comité Coordinador (CCR Team, por sus siglas en inglés)
- Estrategias de Facilitación para Reuniones Virtuales Hoja de Consejos para los Comités Coordinadores
The NOVA Campus Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Advisory Committee was established in 2021 to be responsive to the needs of higher education institutions and inform the training and technical assistance funded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Campus Grant Program.
This advisory committee is composed of individuals who have experience serving on effective CCR Teams to provide input and direction on training and resource development. Committee members represent many types of institutions, levels of experience, faith-based affiliations, cultural contexts, and geographic locations. The 2025 Campus CCR Advisory Committee values open communication, creativity, information and resource sharing, a spirit of non-judgment, collaboration, solidarity, transparency, respect, and gathering feedback from the entire team.
For additional information and resources on the development and maintenance of Coordinated Community Response Teams to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, please see the OVW Campus Program Technical Assistance website: Center for Changing our Campus Culture.
2025 NOVA Coordinated Community Response Advisory Committee
Kayla DeCant
Project Director for Prevention & Outreach
Lewis University
Paula Dobbs
District Director, Violence Prevention and Response
City Colleges of Chicago
Kenneth Gooden
Project Director, Interpersonal Violence Program
Coahoma Community College
Meghan Jordan
Campus Educator and Title IX Investigator
Union College
Tara Kent-Leonard
Program Director
St. Bonaventure University
Samantha Luce
District Director, Violence Prevention and Response
City Colleges of Chicago
Jennifer Oliveras-Del Río
Directora de Proyecto (Project Director)
University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras
Eli Pascal
Director of CARE
University of California Irvine
Emily Pike
Director, Office of Violence Prevention & Education
Niagara University
Hannah Davis-Reyes
Project Director for Violence Prevention and Response Initiatives
Boise State University
Contact Information
For additional information and resources on the development and maintenance of Coordinated Community Response Teams to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus, please see the OVW Campus Program Technical Assistance website: Center for Changing our Campus Culture.
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