About OVA

Mission Statement

The Office of Victim Assistance (OVA) works towards a safer, more socially just and supportive campus community by providing culturally relevant trauma response and prevention services.

OVA provides free, confidential response services for students, faculty, staff and their significant others who experience traumatic, disturbing or disruptive life events.  We do this by providing information, support and short-term counseling. OVA is not a part of the police department.  Our office responds to situations involving physical assault and hazing, bias motivated incidents, death, discrimination and harassment including sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, serious accidents, sexual assault and stalking, as well as other potentially traumatic situations.  We help people learn about and assess their options in these situations.

We are able to support and consult with people as they make their way through systems, and we refer to and collaborate with campus and community resources who also work with these issues.  We talk with people who want to help friends or significant others who are experiencing these situations.  We can talk about academic or work questions, medical questions, reporting questions, counseling and informational questions.  To send a general question to our office, e-mail us at assist@colorado.edu.

In addition to these response services, we collaborate with Community Health, a division of Wardenburg, to provide gender violence prevention and education.  For more information about these services, email Teresa Wroe, or call her at 303-735-0474.

Health & Wellness Team/Student Affairs

OVA is a member of the Health and Wellness Team located within the Division of Student Affairs. Other Health and Wellness Team members are: Wardenburg Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, Recreation Services, and Alcohol and Other Drugs. We work closely with other programs in the Division to streamline support and outreach for students, faculty, and staff. The following link will take you to the Division of Student Affairs main website http://www.colorado.edu/StudentAffairs/