Publicity

The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness has won the "Empowering Agency" award from the Annual Advocates for Women Awards, sponsored by IMPACT Bay Area! The Empowering Agency Award honors a Bay Area organization that works to "make the world a safer place for women and girls."

We are very excited to announce that the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness has partnered with Stanford University to work on the Stanford Community Partnership to End Violence Against Women, funded by the Dept. of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

We’ve all seen it. You’re at a party, people are drinking and you see a couple slip off together, probably about to hook up. You don’t really think anything of it — that’s just the hookup culture, right? What you might not immediately register is that this situation has the potential to turn into a case of sexual violence.

According to Nicole Baran, founder and director of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness — commonly known as “the Center” — approximately 28 percent of college students will suffer from violence related to dating and relationships, and Stanford is not immune to such incidents. In an effort to increase awareness and get that number down, Stanford has scheduled numerous informational events to get women and men to join the fight to end violence and abuse.

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Class, interns aim to promote awareness

Stanford’s Community Partnership to End Violence Against Women — which received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice last fall — has been working closely with the non-profit Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness to offer a three-unit pilot course entitled “Violence Against Women,” as well as supervising and training seven interns.

Director and Founder Nicole Baran ‘00 and Donnovan Yisrael ‘89, the health empowerment educator at Vaden Health Center, teach the pilot course, which will also be offered during the spring quarter. The class is open to both interns and interested students.

“We are very excited about the energy and enthusiasm of the student interns and their commitment to ending violence against women on campus,” Baran said.

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This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Winner: Nicole Baran
This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Charity: The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness

Here is what they wrote: "Energy 92.7 and Cingular salute those of you who raise the bar in the Bay Area by helping to make it a better place to live. This week in the Cingular Spotlight, we pay tribute to Nicole Baran…a Bay Area hero in our midst…. Nicole is committed to stopping violence against women. She founded The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness, a non-profit focused on providing education and training so that communities and institutions respond effectively to women experiencing relationship abuse.

"It’s people like Nicole Baran whose tireless efforts make San Francisco, as well as the Bay Area, a better place to live, work and play in. Cingular is donating $500 to The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness because she is this week’s Cingular Spotlight community hero. Cingular supports community based programs and organizations that address educational, cultural, and social issues affecting the quality of life in our communities. Energy 92.7 and Cingular are helping to raise the bar in our community."

Nicole accepted the award on the radio at 9:30 AM on Wed. April 4, 2007.

The Director of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness was featured on Rites of Passage, a television show about young women in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nicole discussed how to recognize warning signs of dating violence and how young women can become leaders in their community.