CARE: Collaboration for Assault Response and Education is the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s on-campus resource for all issues related to healthy relationships and interpersonal violence. Services CARE Advocates provide include: 24-hour crisis response for those who have experienced sexual trauma, stalking, harassment or relationship abuse; confidential crisis counseling for victims of a past assault/abuse/harassment; advocacy for victims through the legal system, medical system, and/or campus conduct/Title IX processes following an assault/abuse; and support and consultation to friends and loved ones of victims. CARE also provides preventative programming to the UNCW community and offers presentations on healthy relationships, consent and dynamics of interpersonal violence. The My Stand Mentor bystander intervention training program trains community members to recognize red flags of interpersonal violence and intervene in safe and realistic ways to assist in the prevention of sexual assault or relationship abuse and ways to help, after the fact, if necessary. CARE consists of six professional staff and a group of volunteer and paid Peer Educators.
If you or someone you know needs support or wants to get involved, please contact CARE at (910) 962-CARE or via email at care@uncw.edu.