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Leadership Message on SAAM and Denim Day

This April, as we acknowledge Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), we are sharing with you some information and resources to become better educated and aware of sexual assault and sexual and gender-based harassment, and the resources on campus that are available for survivors. SAAM offers a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss this difficult and important topic throughout the month of April, and will culminate with a day to show support for survivors on Denim Day, April 28. We encourage all students to learn about these resources, use our toolkit to spark conversations on preventing sexual and gender-based harm and how to be an upstander, and encourage others to learn more. For the survivors, we acknowledge your courage and resilience, and hope the resources through our programs and services will help support you in moving toward healing. We know we can, and will, and must, do more, until relationship-based, sexually-based, gender-based, and power-based harm is eliminated from our community.

COVID-19 Early Spring Update

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has recently updated its advisory regarding travel, in light of the County’s recent reclassification to the less restrictive Orange Tier in the State of California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.

Information, Privacy and Open Notes in MySHR

As part of a national movement to provide patients with information and access about their health, USC Student Health will begin implementation of “Open Notes” in the health records in its patient portal, MySHR. Beginning April 5, 2021, all patients with records in MySHR will be able to access notes that are entered by health care providers. This is an alignment with the implementation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Cures Act Final Rule.

COVID-19 Vaccination Eligibility Milestones

As Los Angeles County has moved into the Orange Tier—indicating “moderate” transmission of COVID-19—and vaccination rates in Los Angeles continue to trend in the direction that take us further into broad re-openings, we are thankful to our community for making safe precautions a priority as we move forward. Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, LA County has recently announced that April 1 will open vaccine eligibility to individuals over the age of 50 and April 15 will open vaccine eligibility to all over the age of 16.

Sexual Assault Awareness and Denim Day

Denim Day is the last Wednesday of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April), raising awareness and encouraging people to wear jeans with a purpose, support survivors of sexual assault, and educate themselves and others about all forms of sexual violence and gender-based harm. Learn more about Denim Day and USC's Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Services, a unit of Counseling and Mental Health Services in USC Student Health, the campus resource for students, providing advocate services (24/7) to survivors of sexual assault and gender-based harm; providing mental health services, and promoting prevention education programs for students and student-serving departments.

Forthcoming curriculum guide incorporating LGBTQ+ issues and views

As we mark Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, we are pleased to share with you an update from the work of our Coordinated Campus Response Team (CCRT), organized to work collectively across the university to increase LGBTQ+ specific services. Together they have developed structural supports for the LGBTQ+ community, which is especially vulnerable to sexual assault and sexual harassment. The CCRT team is currently preparing a curriculum guide that is intended to help faculty incorporate discussion of the concerns and experiences of this often-marginalized community. The guide will be released this summer, and we encourage any faculty who are interested in receiving this guide to sign up for updates and to receive a copy of the guide when it is published.

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