PCAR offers three listservs to those in the field working in direct service, voluteer coordination and prevention education. If you would like to join one of these lists, please contact Katie or Liz:

Katie Taylor
Technical Assistance Coordinator
717-728-9740, ext 117
ktaylor@pcar.org

Liz Zadnik
Education & Resource Coordinator ext 115
lzadnik@pcar.org

Direct Service, Volunteer Coordinator, and Prevention Education Listserv Member Policy

Purpose

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape’s (PCAR) Volunteer Coordinator, Direct Service Provider, and Prevention Educator listservs offer advocates opportunities to network, exchange information and resources, and dialog about topics and issues relevant to their work between and in addition to quarterly regional meetings. These listservs also provide a way for moderators (PCAR’s Technical Assistance Coordinator and Education and Resource Coordinator) to announce upcoming trainings, conferences, and meetings as well as to spark discussion, and forward resources, surveys, information and other technical assistance that may be of interest to members.

Moderators will not provide immediate responses to technical assistance questions via this listserv. If a member has an urgent request/need, he/she should contact PCAR’s Technical Assistance Coordinator directly, by phone or email.

Eligibility for Listserv

The listservs are created for Pennsylvania’s 51 rape crisis centers’ current volunteer coordinators, direct service providers, and prevention educators. The listservs are not open to professionals outside of rape crisis centers or outside of the state.

Terms of Use

PCAR reserves the right to change the Terms of Use from time to time at its sole discretion. Any materials or documents exchanged on the listservs fall under the copyright laws. Any unauthorized use of the materials may violate such laws.

Moderators

The Volunteer Coordinator and Direct Service Provider listservs are moderated by PCAR’s Technical Assistance Coordinator. The Prevention Education listserv is moderated by PCAR’s Education and Resource Coordinator. Moderators will not censor emails, content, or files that are posted to the listserv. However, moderators will regularly scan such materials for appropriateness and relevance to the anti-sexual violence movement.

Inappropriate Content

Inappropriate content includes but is not limited to

• Threats
• Jokes
• Offensive speech
• Forwarded spam messages
• Virus threats
• Lobbying/Petitions (See Political Activity section for more information.)
• Personal emails not at all relevant to sexual violence or the work
• Discriminatory speech towards a person/group
• Derogatory remarks about a center/organization/person/group

Should a member send inappropriate content or violate terms of use, the moderator reserves the right to a.) send a warning to that member and/or b.) remove that member from the listserv without notice or right of appeal.

Confidentiality/Privacy

The information shared via the listservs must honor the spirit and scope of privileged communications. The listserv should be a safe forum in which members can ask honest questions and share candid opinions and experiences relevant to their roles as volunteer coordinators, direct service providers, and prevention educators.

To protect confidentiality and honor privacy, listserv members must

• Refrain from relaying or sharing confidential information that identifies victims/survivors and
• Refrain from forwarding listserv emails to individuals outside of the listserv unless the author’s permission is obtained first.

Listserv emails, content, and files are not accessible to individuals who are not members of the list.

They are only accessible to

• active listserv members—current PA rape crisis staff including volunteer coordinators, direct service providers, and prevention educators;
• moderators of listservs—PCAR’s Technical Assistance Coordinator and Education and Resource Coordinator; and the
• listserv owner—PCAR’s Information Technology Coordinator.

All emails, content, and files are accessible by every listserv member. When you hit “reply” to a listserv email, every single active member will receive your message.

To best meet the needs of listserv members, moderators may share information shared on the listserv such as technical assistance requests and contractor questions/issues, with appropriate PCAR staff.

Political Activity

Members may not post or disseminate via the listservs any email communication, information, or materials which may be construed as an effort to influence or attempt to influence an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a member of Congress.

Members may consider public policy matters in an educational manner and may prepare and distribute educational materials via the listserv. However, any educational materials or messages shared on this listserv must not be intended to influence an officer or employee of Congress or an employee of a member of Congress.

Listserv Protocol

Listserv members are expected to

• Create a respectful atmosphere in which all members can freely share ideas, questions, and experiences relevant to the work;
• Use subject headings to enable all member to track and organize their resources accordingly;
• Refrain from using electronic communication or data in ways that may be harmful to any person or organization; and
• Use language that is sensitive to diverse populations including but not limited to people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, genders, socioeconomic statuses, and abilities/disabilities.

Distribution of Materials

Even though the listserv is nonprofit and educational, distributing copyrighted documents to a listserv constitutes “systematic copying,” which falls outside of fair use and is in violation of copyright law.

To stay within the bounds of copyright law, listserv members must:

• Use documents and information shared on listserv solely for informational and non-commercial purposes;
• Not modify or alter documents and information in any way unless permission to adapt is explicitly given by author(s);
• Not remove any copyright or other proprietary notices contained in documents and information; and
• Get permission to distribute a copyrighted article.

Instead of posting or attaching the full text article/document to the listserv, members are encouraged to:

• Post the URL, or link to an article or
  ? Post an abstract of the copyrighted material and invite others to request the full text from the poster individually.