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How Ana Mancia is combating intimate partner violence“Every woman in the shelter was under the age of 25,” Mancia says of her first visit to an Oakland shelter. “I understood the pain of violence and want to give back to that community.”
Seeing the impact that domestic violence was having on her peers, and noticing that there were no specific resources available to Berkeley students in abusive relationships prompted her to found the ASUC Intimate Partner Violence Commission.
“A lot of resources on campus were grouped with sexual assault or sexual violence,” says Mancia, “but intimate partner violence requires different types of resources than sexual assault. When you’re in a relationship with someone who is constantly hurting you, it’s not like a one-time sexual assault.”
Students who become commission members train student organizations — including sororities, fraternities and other campus groups — on intimate partner violence. They also lead workshops at student conferences, connect students experiencing intimate partner violence with resources like counseling or legal services and hold support groups on campus.
