Rutgers University Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance

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Rutgers University Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance

VPVA is committed to creating a community free from violence through direct service, education, training & policy development.

The Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance was created in 1991 by recommendation of the University Acquaintance Rape Task Force. The office has grown to serve Rutgers community members who are victims of all types of crime with an emphasis on sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking and peer harassment, and bullying. Today, VPVA is committed to offering innovative services, programs, and events designed to meet the needs of the members of the Rutgers Community and beyond.

02/05/2026

🩵💜Healing the Wounded Heart is a survivor art exhibit. The hearts displayed have been created by survivors of sexual and domestic violence to provide testimony to the victimization. The Project originally started in 2001 as collaboration between sexual assault programs in Texas and the La Pena Latino Arts Organization. The concept was brought to the University in 2002 as a way to provide an outlet for survivors of interpersonal violence and to raise awareness in our community. This annual display adds new hearts each year.💜🩵

CHECK OUT HEALING THE WOUNDED HEART UP NOW IN DOUGLASS LIBRARY!

11/10/2025

The weather couldn’t stop us from smashing oppressive systems!!

Join us this Thursday, November 13th, for SMASH THE PUMPKIN/PATRIARCHY PARTY from 1:30-4pm at the VPVA Office.

FREE pizza, candy bags, and t-shirts will be provided. Come and take some anger and stress out during the last few weeks of the semester!

11/02/2025

MORE COLLECTIVE HEALING CIRCLES COMING UP!! 🤎

REGISTER FOR LOCATIONS
LINK IN BIO AND THROUGH QR CODE!

10/30/2025

SMASH THE PUMPKIN/PATRIARCHY HAS BEEN POSTPONED!!!

We are so sad to say we are going to have to push back smashing pumpkins, but due to the weather we feel it’s best. Stay tuned for the rain date, which will be posted here on our social media and getINVOLVED as soon as we know. Thanks so much for understanding and continue tearing down the patriarchy, with or without pumpkins!

10/23/2025

SMASH the Pumpkin/Patriarchy is ONE WEEK away!!

Thank you to for helping us harvest our pumpkins in our very own Survivor Garden! Now let’s get ready to smash them!

Hope to see you all there!! 🎃👻

10/16/2025

MEN AND Connection Registration has been extended!! Make sure to sign up today for an amazing, free of cost, hike!

Link in bio to register. All people who associate with masculinity are able to register. Hope to see you there! 🍂

10/08/2025

SMASH the Pumpkin/Patriarchy Party is approaching!! 💥🎃

VPVA is so excited to be working with Rutgers Panhellenic for this event! We will provide pumpkins for smashing, information on the harmful systems of the patriarchy, and free t-shirts & candy bags! 🍬

October 30th 6-9pm, we hope to see you there! 👻

10/06/2025

Rutgers Recreation and VPVA’s MEN AND program will be hosting MEN AND Connection, a 6-mile hike on October 24th! 🍁🍂

This hike is an opportunity for men to explore nature, and themselves, through conversations and connections. 🥾🪾

🔗Link in bio to register!!

10/02/2025

The Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance is excited to share our new shirts for our 35th anniversary!

Displayed at our Clothesline Project, our new shirts remind everyone: With each wave remember healing is not linear. We return, we rise, we keep moving- TOGETHER

This October, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, VPVA reminds you: you are not alone. We stand with survivors, always💜

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10/01/2025

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Rutgers VPVA stands with survivors, always💜

09/29/2025

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month coming up in October, VPVA will be turning Rutgers campus purple!

Join us in honoring the victims of domestic violence through wearing purple on every Wednesday of October and attending our upcoming events.

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3 Bartlett Street
New Brunswick, NJ
08901

Website

http://vpva.rutgers.edu/

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