dr. huskey and mr.storch, can you each talk briefly about how your universities are specifically addressing bullying targeted lgbt students? and why it's important for your schools to have affirmative policies addressing bullying, what the positive impacts of those policies have had so far on the learning environment. why don't i start with you, dr. huskey? >> thank you. this is a matter that is very dear to my heart of the lesbian, as a parent. i really honor your capacity to be here and to talk about this tragedy, it is astonishing to me and i have so much respect for what you are doing. washington state university has been a leader in lgbt services. we were the first university in the state to have a staffed, professionally staffed center. i was the inaugural director of the center as a matter fact and from the very beginning of that time we've had an inclusive policies which acknowledge the valley of lgbt students and their full inclusion in our institution. so we do not have policies which specific

dr. huskey and dr. allan. what are some of the promising programs and activities and practices that working to prevent violence on our campuses? and really change campus culture? dr. huskey? dr. allan, whichever one. okay. >> i'll jump in here. so promising programs and practices that work to prevent violence and change campus culture, i think we know from prevention science that it's important to have a prevention framework. it's very important to assess what, you know, the climate gather data, have data driven approaches and to evaluate what you're doing. to have staff who are dedicated or designated to do the work so it's not all on one person's shoulders or on no one's shoulders, to have a coalition based approach. an approach that is considered comprehensive and what i mean or what we mean by that and the literature means is that it's not just one training or one type of workshop or a speaker coming in to campus or a one-week awareness week. it needs to be something where there's high dosage. so it's a co

dr. huskey. >> mr. chairman, senator murray and members of the committee, my name is melynda huskey, interim vice president of student affairs at washington state university. area proud to have senator murray as alumna and i'm honored to participate in this roundtable on the important issue of campus safety and violins prevention. i'm here on behalf of washington state university's leadership. we are the land grant institution of washington, physically present in every county in the state delivering education, research and source services that benefit washians in their daily lives. my role is to oversee all programs and offices which support out of classroom student experience. and in that role, i've been asked to share with you the approach we take on our campuses. like many universities our campus has experienced incidents of hazing, bullying, sexual assault and cyberbullying. we're committed to using the best evidence-based practices available and if adopted the public health model for violence prote