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<\/a>Horne says the new legislation passed by government requiring post-secondary institutions to have an official sexual-violence policy is a positive step, but she adds that her position goes beyond sexual violence and misconduct.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s dealing a lot with student-conduct issues that come up in class and manifest in different behaviours in the classroom,\u201d she says. \u201cWe help support the student in addressing the root causes of those behaviours; often it gets particularly stressful during exam time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The office of student support\u2019s website says the college worked with various outside parties, such as the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre, to develop the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy so that it\u2019s above and beyond government standards. Horne says that she focuses particularly hard on education and prevention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a huge component that we\u2019re focused on right now,\u201d she says, \u201cobviously, as well as helping survivors make informed decisions that are best for that particular individual. The focus is definitely on recovery and empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horne\u2014who refers to a \u201cstrong focus on creating a culture of empowerment\u201d through the college\u2019s new changes\u2014says that coming forward is the first step to progressing as a society, and as an institution.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one of the biggest fears in people coming forward is the idea of reporting an incident. There are a lot of survivors who go along with life and just suffer quietly instead of reaching out,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Horne stresses that incidents can be reported in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis office and this role is here to help support those students,\u201d she says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily mean pursuing formal avenues with it. It\u2019s more about, \u2018How can we help that individual move forward in a way that allows them to recover and empower themselves in going forward?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun College Student Society external executive Rachael Grant says that the creation of this position is a positive step for students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe student society is definitely eager to contribute and offer context to the student experience; the position\u2019s placed in the fabric of the college community,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThe college is figuring out what this position means because it\u2019s an entirely new position. We as a student society are excited to contribute to that process of making it the most meaningful position to students it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horne says that if someone experiences sexual violence during their educational studies, that can have a very negative impact on their success at school.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo everything we as an institution can do to help support that individual just makes good sense,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Horne says BC\u2019s legislation was a \u201cfantastic\u201d step in the right direction, adding that it was well thought out and created as a response to occurrences at post-secondary institutions across Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cCamosun, for sure, feels strongly about this sort of thing,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
The office of student support is located at 121 Isabel Dawson at Lansdowne and 218 Liz Ashton Campus Centre at Interurban. See camosun.ca for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lori Horne is the new student support manager for Camosun College. The position, which is part of the office of student experience, was created to assist students in learning about the college\u2019s new Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy, as well as other support services available to Camosun students. Horne, who is a candidate for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-june-14-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}