{"id":1300,"date":"2024-01-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:46:25","slug":"service-story-archive-safe-homes-rape-crisis-coalition-and-introduction-to-womens-gender-studies-wgst-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/service-story-archive-safe-homes-rape-crisis-coalition-and-introduction-to-womens-gender-studies-wgst-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Stories Archive: SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition and Introduction to Women&#8217;s &amp; Gender Studies (WGST U101)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em> This article was originally published in Spring 2019.  SHRCC is now known as <a href=\"https:\/\/projectrest.org\/\">Project R.E.S.T.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Esther Godfrey&#8217;s Introduction to Women&#8217;s &amp; Gender Studies classes partner with the SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition. The coalition seeks to &#8220;use our collective voice to address the impact of domestic and sexual violence by providing quality services to those affected and to create social change through education, training, and activism&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/projectrest.org\/\"> (shrcc.org\/).<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Pictured below, Dr. Godfrey (front, center) poses with WGST 101 students while supporting SHRCC&#8217;s mission through beautification of a residential facility. Students also serve in the resale shop, promote domestic violence and sexual assault awareness, and coordinate a clothing drive for women and children in need, directly applying concepts from their coursework to the real world and our immediate community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/godfrey-shrcc_painting-e1717706152243.jpg\" alt=\"Women's and Gender Studies Students and Professor Esther Godfrey painting a home for survivors of domestic and sexual violence\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" title=\"Painting at SHRCC\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/godfrey-shrcc_painting-e1717706152243.jpg 595w, https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/godfrey-shrcc_painting-e1717706152243-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published in Spring 2019. SHRCC is now known as Project R.E.S.T. Dr. Esther Godfrey&#8217;s Introduction to Women&#8217;s &amp; Gender Studies classes partner with the SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition. The coalition seeks to &#8220;use our collective voice to address the impact of domestic and sexual violence by providing quality services to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8,12,13],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sl-ce-stories","tag-community-engagement","tag-courses","tag-service-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}