Sexual Assault Education and Prevention
Stewart Named Director of SHARPP
Rachel Stewart has been named director of the Sexual Harassment & Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) at UNH. Stewart comes to UNH from Connecticut College, where she served as the director of sexual violence prevention and advocacy for nearly four years, with additional roles as coordinator of... Read More
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04/07/22April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The spring semester is particularly important at SHARPP because Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is observed in April. Let’s talk about what... -
11/23/21What is Juice Jacking?
A simple plug-in to a communal phone charger may cause irreversible breaching of your personal data, through what is known as juice jacking. Here are... -
04/30/21SAAM Article
This April marks the 20th official Sexual Assault Awareness Month, though activists have been working to raise awareness of this issue for even... -
03/29/21What COVID-19 Can Teach Us: Violence and Marginalization
The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on certain populations has highlighted numerous disparities and injustices in our society. On the surface...
Recent Stories
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05/07/20 - Saying Goodbye: My Last Post for SHARPPIt is still so hard to believe that I am about to close out my four years at UNH, especially in these circumstances. Many of us seniors will be left unfulfilled with our final... Read More -
03/17/20 - SHARPP Services Amid COVID-19These next few weeks of online classes and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be difficult for all of us. But social distancing can be especially difficult... Read More -
02/17/20 - New Hampshire’s New Bill on Campus Sexual Violence and How You Can HelpNational estimates tell us that one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. At UNH specifically, a recent climate survey reveals that 13% of all... Read More -
01/16/20 - Our Favorite Television Characters Are Still StalkersStalking. It’s a classic trope that can be traced back to classic Hollywood films: boy meets girl, girl rejects boy, boy just sees this as “playing hard to get.” So he follows her... Read More -
11/19/19 - SHARPP’s Recommendations for the #MeToo EraIn the last few years, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the amount of attention being paid to sexual harassment and assault. Some say the new era of believing came with the arrest of... Read More -
10/21/19 - Netflix’s "Unbelievable" Shows How the Criminal Justice System Fails SurvivorsAs someone who has worked for SHARPP for the past three years, a question I’ve gotten pretty frequently, to my surprise, has been: if someone is raped, assaulted, or experiencing... Read More -
09/26/19 - The Tip of the IcebergJordyn Haime '20 discusses the impact of Jeffrey Epstein with Lyn Schollett of the N.H. Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Read More -
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05/02/19 - How Violence Impacts Our Trans and Nonbinary CommunityIndividuals who are not cisgender face high rates of sexual violence. Read More