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Associated Press - November 11, 2009 5:24 AM ET
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The Department of Justice has provided the University of Mississippi with a 3-year, $300,000 grant to develop programs to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking on college campuses.
Mary Carruth, director of Ole Miss' Sarah Isom Center for Women, says the university will work with Family Crisis Services of Northwest Mississippi and the Oxford Police Department and the university's Violence Prevention Office.
Carruth says the program will offer resource referral, training, information, coordination, prevention programming and advocacy for students, faculty, staff and parents.
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