by Tim Darnell | Sep 29, 2021 | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA — Georgia State University has partnered with the federal government to open the National Center for Sexual Violence Prevention.
The center was established after Amanda Gilmore and Shannon Self-Brown, both staff professors in the school’s Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences Department, received a second year of federal funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s sexual assault prevention and response office.
The center hopes to establish a sexual assault prevention workforce within the military. The combined award totals $668,677.
“The center will continue to support sexual violence prevention research at Georgia State to reduce violence in high-risk populations like military, college students and adolescents,” said Gilmore. “This can have long-lasting impacts by reducing the mental health consequences of sexual assault including substance use, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide.”
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