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DIALOGUE where we have myself and another full-time staff member and office manager, graduate assistant, and undergraduates. We continue to grow our programming and to reach out to our campus population. At the Sexual and Relationship Violence Center here at the University of Arkansas, we're avail- able to our student population. All of our services are free. We address sexual and relationship violence from a two-pronged approach: One is through education, out- reach initiatives, and awareness campaigns, and the other prong is through advocacy services. We do that through direct, individ- ualized victim advocacy, one-on-one, what- ever unique aspects we need to. There's no cookie-cutter approach to victim advocacy. It's identifying and recognizing the unique aspects of each individual case and help- ing them with their needs as we help them process what their needs are. We provide counseling through a brief model. If a per- son's going to need long-term care through counseling, then that's easily readily iden- tified early on in the sessions. By the third session, the counselor will know if this per- son's going to need more than a brief model of counseling, and we'll start to work toward helping them find the right resource for long-term care. The brief model of counseling, as well as a support group, is available at no cost to our students — whatever we can do to help our students from a reactive side on not only reducing the risk of future victim- ization, but also helping enhance the like- lihood of continuing onward and being a successful student. Many students across the nation are lost on college campuses and end up leaving their college track and their career behind because they don't feel sup- ported, so we want to make sure that our students are supported and that, in spite of what happened to them, we're here for them and want to help in whatever way so that they can continue on that successful path of their college career as well. Editor I know this is long, but is there something that I should have asked you that I didn't? Wyandt-Hiebert We covered a lot. There's so much that could be talked about. I used to teach an eight-week course that focused on just rape culture and identifying rape culture in itself. There's so much you can talk about with regard to male victimization and victimization of LGBTQIA+. It's not just women. You'll notice that a lot of times, I don't specifically say women because others are sexually victimized. Even though it's predominantly women, others are sexually WWYW: What Were You Wearing Exhibit Created by the Sexual and Relationship Violence Center WWYW is an exhibit that depicts the clothes worn by victims of sexual assault. WWYW was recognized by the National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA) as the NOVA 2024 Tadini Bacigalupi Jr. Awardee. This award is given to a distinguished victim service program.