Center for Empowering Victims of Gender-based Violence

The Center for Empowering Victims of Gender-based Violence (CEVGV) brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and students representing multiple colleges across campus. CEVGV engages in interdisciplinary collaboration, scholarly networks, and civic engagement with local communities that embody an academic commitment to sharing knowledge, supporting long-term collaborations through research and experiential learning, creating programming, sharing teaching, and responding to gender-based violence in Kansas.

CEVGV's missions are: To reduce the constraints that survivors face, promote the freedom of economic independence, and empower survivors to seize opportunities freely. To provide sustainable support to help survivors to break the cycle of violence and transform themselves from victims/survivors to social entrepreneurs. To facilitate cross-disciplinary research focusing on the causes of gender-based violence in rural areas. To initiate collaborative networks for researchers to apply evidence-based approaches and investigate best practices for addressing gender-based violence in rural communities. To establish and develop academic-community collaborations through service learning, research, and assessment to create educational opportunities and policy recommendations that enhance the well-being of rural communities.