The Clery Center for Security on Campus (Clery Center) recently released the Responsible Employee Training Video. Created in partnership with the  Victim Rights Law Center, the video is designed to help responsible employees understand their role and obligations under Title IX. The video features the voices of sexual assault survivors and professionals from campus safety and student affairs. "Responsible employees serve as a gateway," says Clery Center Executive Director Alison Kiss. "Often students, or other members of the university or college community, may disclose or tell a responsible employee that they were harassed or sexually assaulted and that person has an obligation to get that information to the Title IX coordinator." The U.S. Department of Education's 2014 Questions and Answers about Title IX and Sexual Violence document states that, "Under Title IX, whether an individual is obligated to report incidents of alleged sexual violence generally depends on whether the individual is a responsible employee of the school. A responsible employee must report incidents of sexual violence to the Title IX coordinator or other appropriate school designee." If you have any doubts about whether or not you are a responsible employee, you may ask your institution's Title IX coordinator. 

There is a fee for the Responsible Employee Training Video, but institutions can receive a discounted rate for purchasing this video and the CSA Training video together. Members of the Collaborative Program receive both videos at no charge. Launched nationally in 2014, the Clery Center Collaborative Program is a team-based learning membership program designed to help colleges and universities meet the challenges of creating safer campuses.

Focused on advocacy, education, and collaboration, the Clery Center is a national non-profit with a mission "to work with college and university communities to create safer campuses." Connie and Howard Clery founded the organization in 1987 following the April 1986 rape and murder of their 19-year-old daughter, Jeanne, in her Lehigh University dorm room. Her assailant, who is spending life behind bars without parole, was also a student at the school whom Jeanne did not know prior to the attack. Today the Clery Center provides services in the following four program areas: victim advocacy, peer education for college-bound high school students, institutional training seminars for college and university personnel, and National Campus Safety Awareness Month. Please visit the Clery Center website for more information.