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8 THE COLLEGE'S ANNUAL SECURITY AND FIRE SAFETY REPORT 2022 Alcohol and Other Drug Support Services e College of New Jersey is an educational institution committed to maintaining an environment that enables community members to enjoy the benefits of an optimal learning experience. To this end, the Alcohol and Drug Education Program (ADEP), was created at the college in September 1990. In 2022, the program was restructured to encompass expanded services and renamed Alcohol and Other Drug Support Services (AOD Support Services) as a specialty area housed within Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS). AOD Support Services' mission is to help students thrive through achieving holistic health and wellness by reducing, mediating, and/ or healing from the harmful impact of problematic alcohol and other drug use. We aim to promote and empower healthy, joyful, and life- affirming choices and behaviors. AOD Support Services engages in prevention and harm-reduction work through educational programming and environmental management in order to reduce and avert potential problems. To address substance use related problems we offer counseling services; and to help students heal, we facilitate the return to optimal health through recovery support services. AOD Support Services offers the full continuum of AOD intervention services and provides multifaceted programming to address the full array of unique student needs. AOD Support Services is located within Forcina Hall 308. Students, faculty, and staff can request and/or learn more about prevention education, counseling, and recovery support services via the TCNJ Counseling and Prevention Services website at caps.tcnj.edu/about/ areas/aod/. Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Prevention e Sexual Harassment, Misconduct, & Discrimination Policy ("Policy") prohibits sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, sexual harassment, stalking and gender-based discrimination and harassment. e College of New Jersey ("TCNJ" or the "college"), as an institution of higher education and a community dedicated to learning and the advancement of knowledge, expects and requires the behavior of students, faculty, and staff to be compatible with its high standards of conduct. For the college, this means a firm institutional commitment to protect the community and the rights of its members, and to cultivate and sustain a positive living and learning environment. us, sexual harassment, including misconduct such as sexual assault, domestic or dating violence, and stalking (collectively, "Prohibited Conduct") will not be tolerated. Note, any reference in the Sexual Harassment, Misconduct, & Discrimination Policy to a person or role in the policy or process is intentionally gender neutral to reflect the college's commitment to an inclusive policy. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") and its implementing regulations protects people from discrimination, based on sex, in education programs or activities. Title IX & Sexual Misconduct states that: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." e U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") enforces compliance with Title IX and emphasizes the importance of providing an educational environment free from discrimination. e college prohibits any such unlawful discrimination. erefore, any acts of Sexual Violence against an individual (whether student, faculty, or staff) constitutes such discrimination and in some cases may be a crime. Guided by the mission of Student Affairs, the Anti-Violence Initiatives branch of Counseling and Prevention Services (AVI) leads the campus effort to prevent issues of sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking by working with community partners to create a campus environment that is intolerant of abuse and is responsive to the needs of victims/survivors. Our objective is to establish a campus culture of safety, free from sexual violence, resulting in a safer living and learning environment. AVI provides bystander intervention and other prevention programs for members of the TCNJ community, such as programs during orientation, programs for first-year residence halls, student organizations and athletic teams, awareness months, and social marketing campaigns. Acts of sexual violence are prohibited by the Sexual Harassment, Misconduct, & Discrimination Policy, Student Conduct Code, and New Jersey state law. • Dating Violence. Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors: length of the relationship, type of relationship, and frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship. • Domestic Violence. A "victim of domestic violence" includes any person, regardless of age, who has been subjected to violence by a person with whom the victim has a child, or with whom the victim anticipates having a child, if one of the parties is pregnant, and any other person who is a present or former household member. "Victim of domestic violence" also includes any person who has been subjected to domestic violence by a person with whom the victim has had a dating relationship. • Sexual Assault. Any form of unwanted or involuntary touching or penetration of intimate body parts by a person of the same or opposite sex. is can include being forced to touch someone else. "Unwanted or involuntary" means sexual contact without the consent of the victim, including the use of threats, intimidation, coercion, or physical force. It also includes victims who are unable to give consent because of their age or because they are physically helpless, mentally incapacitated, or intoxicated. • "Effective Consent." Is informed, freely and actively given, mutually understandable words or actions that indicate a willingness to participate in mutually agreed upon sexual activity. A person may be unable to give Effective Consent when they are unable to consent due to their age, or because the person is physically helpless, mentally incapacitated, or incapacitated from alcohol or other drugs. Effective Consent to any sexual act or prior consensual sexual activity between or with any party does not necessarily constitute consent to any other sexual act. Effective Consent is required regardless of whether the person initiating the act is under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Effective Consent may be initially given but withdrawn at any time. Effective Consent cannot be given when it is the result of coercion, intimidation, force, or threat of harm. When Effective Consent is withdrawn or can no longer be given, sexual activity must stop immediately.

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