Sexual Misconduct

The CVA is a free, local resource for students and employees. The CVA provides confidential safety, support and services to victims and survivors of sexual assault and violence. The CVA is not a university employee and does not provide information about situations or incidents to the university or to law enforcement.

Campus Victim Advocate

• 24-Hour Crisis Line: 715-425-6751 or 1-800-345-5104
• 24-Hour Text Hotline: 715-821-8626

Confidential mental health counseling and consultation services for UWRF students.

Counseling Services

• Office: 254 Rodli Hall
• Phone: 715-425-3884
• Email: counseling.services@uwrf.edu

Confidential access to information and resources on health services for UWRF students.

Student Health Services

• Office: 254 Rodli Hall
• Phone: 715-425-3293
• Email: student.health.services@uwrf.edu

Resource for students and employees wanting to obtain information about sexual assault, sexual harassment, gender/sex-based harassment, dating/domestic violence or stalking, report concerns or obtain remedial or supportive measures.

April Chaney

• Email: april.chaney@uwrf.edu
• Office: 215 Rodli Hall
• Phone: 715-425-0720

Dean of Students Office

• Email: deanofstudents@uwrf.edu
• Office: 235 Rodli Hall
• Phone: 715-425-0720

Human Resources

• Office: 216 North Hall
• Phone: 715-425-3518

UWRF Police

• Office: 103 Regional Development Institute
• Phone: 715-425-3133 (or 911)

Confidential safety, support and services to victims and survivors of sexual assault and violence.

Contact Turningpoint:

• 24-Hour Crisis Line: 715-425-6751 or 1-800-345-5104
• 24-Hour Text Hotline: 715-821-8626

Confidential forensic healthcare, education, protection and advocacy for victim survivors of sexual violence, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Contact SART:

• Phone: 715-425-6443

Contact PCRHS:

• Location: 1234 South Wasson Lane
• Phone: 715-425-8003

Contact the M Health Fairview Clinic:

• Location: 319 Main St., River Falls, Wis. (adjacent to Family Fresh Grocery)
• Phone: 715-425-6701

Contact the River Falls Police Department:

• Location: 2815 Prairie Drive
• Phone:
  • Non-Emergency and Information: 715-425-0909
  • Emergency: 911

24/7, confidential and free

Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline:

• Phone: 1-800-799-7233 and through chat

24/7, confidential and free

Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline:

• Phone: 800-656-HOPE (4673) and through chat

Confidential helpline for domestic/sexual violence, specifically for Native communities.

Contact the StrongHearts Native Helpline:

• Phone: 1−844-762-8483 (available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. CT)

Hotline for peer support for trans folks, staffed exclusively by trans operators, has a policy against nonconsensual active rescue.

Contact the Trans LifeLine:

• Phone: 1-877-565-8860 (9 a.m. to 3 a.m. CT)

UW-River Falls uses the definitions in the the Board of Regent's Policy on Sexual Violence and Harassment, as well as those definitions in the Wisconsin Administrative Rules for Chapters UWS 4, 7, 11 and 17. 

• Student Nonacademic Disciplinary Procedures: Chapter UWS 17 and Process Flowchart
• Academic Staff: Chapter UWS 11
• Faculty: Chapter UWS 7 and Chapter UWS 4

• AP-06-116 Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment
• Regent Policy Document 14-2 Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment
• Regent Policy Document 14-6 Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation
• Regent Policy Document 14-8 Consensual Relationships

Clery Act and UWRF 's Annual Security Report

• The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, also known as the Clery Act, is a federal law that requires institutions of higher education to have in place certain security and safety policies and to disclose certain crime statistics.  These policies and statistics are published annually in UW-River Falls Annual Security Report.

Executive Order #54: Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect

• Under Executive Order #54, all University of Wisconsin System employees must report incidents of child abuse and neglect. 

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

• The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was enacted to protect victims of domestic crimes and reduce the stigma associated with domestic abuse.

Wisconsin Statute § 36.11(22)(c)

• In accordance with Wisconsin law (Wisconsin Statute § 36.11(22)(c)), UWRF employees, who witness an act of sexual assault or receive a first-hand report of sexual assault from an enrolled student, must report that information to the Title IX Coordinator.

Sexual assault is any sexual contact made without consent. Consent must be freely given with overt words or actions that clearly communicate an individual’s desire to engage in sexual activities. Consent is a clear yes, not the absence of a no. Consent cannot legally be obtained if an individual is incapacitated due to alcohol or other drugs, is unconscious or asleep, or has limited mental capacity. Examples of sexual assault include unwanted touching, kissing, fondling, or penetration of the mouth, vagina, or anus with a finger, penis or object.

• You agreed through words to do one thing, but were forced to do more than you agreed to.
• While you were incapacitated from alcohol or drugs, someone had sex with you or engaged in sexual activity with you. You may have been asleep, passed out, too intoxicated to know what was happening or were unable to stop it.
• It started with kissing and when you said no, the other person continued. You became frozen, did not participate, but the other person had sex with you anyway.
• Your partner forced you to have sex when you did not want to.

Sexual assault is any forced or coerced sexual intercourse or contact. It is a crime of violence in which assailants, whether known to the victim or not, are motivated by a desire to humiliate or exert power over the victim.
(Refer to Wisconsin State Statutes 940.225 and 948.02.)

In short, any sexual contact which you do not want is sexual assault. Wisconsin statutes define four degrees of sexual assault. They range from uninvited and unwanted touching to forced intercourse. Sexual assault can occur between persons in dating or sexual relationships, including marriage. It can also occur between persons of the same sex.