About the Oasis Program

Safety • Empowerment • Healing • Respect • Support • Knowledge

The Oasis Program was established to provide a variety of services to UA students, staff, and faculty (men, women, and transgendered persons) who are impacted by sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking. The Oasis Program is a unit of Campus Health Service and is an active partner with Tucson community service agencies. Together with our campus and community partners we strive to provide coordinated responses to, and work toward the prevention of, all forms of interpersonal violence.

Our mission is:

• To reduce the incidence of sexual assault and interpersonal violence in the UA community.
• To coordinate and promote effective administrative, legal, medical, and therapeutic responses for students, staff and faculty.
• To facilitate confidential reports on campus and promote data collection and research efforts.
• To collaborate with, and provide coordinated responses between, the campus and the surrounding community.

We are fully supported by the University of Arizona in its commitment to model creative leadership in promoting campus civility and mutual respect based on the principles and practices of nonviolence.

Our goal in offering these services is to contribute to the quality of the overall campus climate, to the safety, empowerment and healing of victim/survivors, to the accountability of offenders, to the success of students remaining productive in their role as students and in the pursuit of their degrees, and to the success of staff and faculty remaining productive in their role as employees. All services are voluntary and are offered at no charge.