CARE Research

What is CARE?

Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) is a primary resource for survivor healing, and provides confidential services to students, staff, and faculty at each UC.

Our S+A research findings showed that students overwhelmingly prefer healing resources (like CARE), over punitive agencies or non-confidential resources like Title IX.

"University of California" written in all caps and in light blue.

S+A CARE Study

Our Findings

In our study, survivors (81% and 71%) were more likely to indicate that they felt emotionally supported and respected by CARE and CAPS staff, in comparison to Title IX staff (36%).

Despite this, funding for CARE is not standardized across the UC system, and many CARE organizations must apply for additional grants to fund their projects.

The bar graph titled “Percentage that Agreed with: I Felt Emotionally Supported and Respected by the [blank] Staff. A graph is shown with the bottom, x-axis listing “CARE (N=43), CAPS (N=96), and Title IX (N=28).” The left, y-axis lists “0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100%.” The leftmost bar is purple and labeled as “CARE (N=43)” with “81%” on top of the bar. The middle bar is blue and labeled as “CAPS (N=96)” with “77%” on top of the bar. The rightmost bar is pink and labeled as “Title IX (N=28)” with “36%” on top of the bar.

The table is a vibrant purple and the text is written is white. The first column of the table reads “UC Campus,” listing “UCSF**, UCB, UCSB, UCM, UCSC, UCI, UCR, UCD, UCSD, UCLA.” The second column of the table reads “No. CARE Advocates (as of Summer 2024)” listing 2 (UCSF), 7 (UCB), 3 (UCSB), 1 (UCM), 2 (UCSC), 4 (UCI), 3 (UCR), 1 (UCD), 3 (UCSD), 4 (UCLA). The third column of the table reads “No. Students Enrolled (as of Fall 2023)” listing 6,032 (UCSF), 45,699 (UCB), 24,271 (UCSB), 9,148 (UCM), 19,764 (UCSC), 37,350 (UCI), 26,426 (UCR), 40,848 (UCD), 42,376 (UCSD), 46,678 (UCLA). The fourth column of the table reads “Advocate : Student Ratio” listing 1 : 3016 (UCSF), 1 : 6529 (UCB), 1 : 8091 (UCSB), 1 : 9148 (UCM), 1 : 9882 (UCSC), 1 : 9338 (UCI), 1 : 8809 (UCR), 1: 40848 (UCD), 1 : 14126 (UCSD), 1 : 11670 (UCLA).

CARE Advocate: Student Ratios

For example, UCLA has the largest student population of any UC, yet employs only 4 CARE advocates (as of Summer 2024) with a ratio of 1 advocate for every 11,670 students (using Fall 2023 data on student demographics).

CARE provides services to students, staff and faculty at each UC. Given that the table provided only includes CARE advocate-to-student ratios, these ratios are much larger in reality.

What can be done to address this?

Recommendations

increase and standardize CARE funding across the UCs
All survivors should automatically be connected with a CARE advocate when seeking help
Have UCPD call in a confidential CARE advocate for any meeting with a survivor of SVSH, similar to the medical chaperone model