CAPE: Survivor Advocacy & Healing
The Center for Advocacy, Prevention, & Empowerment (CAPE) promotes healing by providing advocacy and support for those impacted by interpersonal violence, such as sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. You are not alone.
All CAPE services are confidential and free of charge.
Who Are CAPE Advocates?
Our advocates have completed an intensive 40-hour training program. We understand the complexity of sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment, and can assist individuals in making their own decisions about how to move forward and access resources. We are educated in medical, criminal, legal, and university systems. Advocates can provide emotional support, information, and options for survivors.
Advocates are not counselors, although we can help connect individuals with a mental health provider if requested.
Connect with a CAPE Advocate
During business hours: 303-871-3853
Email: cape@du.edu
Connect 24/7 with the HCC Counselor on Call: 303-871-2205
How We Can Help
CAPE provides advocacy and support services to all members of the University campus that have experienced and/or been impacted by interpersonal violence.
- Provides a free, safe, and confidential space for any DU community member impacted by interpersonal violence to talk about what happened, including those who have directly experienced the harm, along with friends, colleagues, loved ones, and programs who are interested in providing support.
- Help survivors navigate the university, medical, criminal, and/or legal systems
- Assist survivors with obtaining a civil order of protection (legal) or a no-contact order (University)
- Accompany survivors to the hospital or clinic following an assault in order to receive a medical evaluation and/or a medical forensic exam (MFE), which is used to collect evidence should the survivor decide to pursue a criminal investigation
- Discuss options for financial assistance
- Guide a survivor through reporting to the DU Office of Title IX, and accompany survivors throughout the investigative process
- Assist with reporting an incident to the Denver Police Department or other law enforcement agencies, and accompany survivors to the police station
- Provide referrals for visa and immigration assistance to victims of crime
- Connect survivors to therapists on campus or in the community, as well as group counseling options
- Arrange for temporary academic accommodations
- Skill-build for developing healthy relationships
- Collaborate with Campus Safety to arrange for private escorts and/or self-defense courses
- Provide survivors with psychoeducation about trauma, trauma responses, and coping skills
DU & Community Support
There are many resources available both on campus at DU and in the Denver community ready to offer their help and support to survivors and their loved ones.
Financial Support
The CAPE Survivor Fund was initiated by a group of student activists who recognized the financial burden that interpersonal violence often has on survivors.
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