3. Training, Reporting and Responding to Sexual Violence

1. Clarkridge Career Institute shall include a copy of the Sexual Violence Policy in every contract made between it and its students, and provide a copy of the Sexual Violence Policy to career college management (corporate directors, controlling shareholders, owners, partners, other persons who manage or direct the career college’s affairs, and their agents), instructors, staff, other employees and contractors and train them about the policy and its processes of reporting, investigating and responding to complaints of sexual violence involving its students. “Any company participating in offering student internships on their premises must provide an undertaking in writing that complies with all applicable legislation, including the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and will provide students access to those policies should they encounter issues relating to sexual violence in the workplace.
2. The Sexual Violence Policy shall be published on its website and posted in the Student Announcement Board.
3. Clarkridge Career Institute management, instructors, staff, other employees, and contractors will report incidents of or complaints of sexual violence to the Administrator upon becoming aware of them.
4. Students who have been affected by sexual violence or who need information about support services should contact Ms. Dalvir Sidhu, the Student Support Coordinator at dsidhu@clarkridge.com.
5. Subject to section 4 below, to the extent it is possible, Clarkridge Career Institute will attempt to keep all personal information of persons involved in the investigation confidential except in those circumstances where it believes an individual is at imminent risk of self-harm, or of harming another, or there are reasonable grounds to believe that others on its campus or the broader community are at risk. This will be done by:
   1. ensuring that all complaints/reports and information gathered as a result of the complaint/reports will be only available to those who need to know for purposes of investigation, implementing safety measures and other circumstances that arise from any given case; and
   2. ensuring that the documentation is kept in a separate file from that of the Complainant/student or the Respondent.

6. Clarkridge Career Institute recognizes the right of the Complainant not to report and an incident of or make a complaint about sexual violence or not request an investigation and not to participate in any investigation that may occur.
7. Notwithstanding (f), in certain circumstances, Clarkridge Career Institute may be required by law or its internal policies to initiate an internal investigation and/or inform police without the complainant’s consent if it believes the safety of members of its campus or the broader community is at risk.
8. In all cases, including (f) above, Clarkridge Career Institute will appropriately accommodate the needs of its students who are affected by sexual violence. Students seeking accommodation should contact Ms. Dalvir Sidhu, the Student Support Coordinator at dsidhu@clarkridge.com.

In this regard, Clarkridge Career Institute will assist students who have experienced sexual violence in obtaining counseling and medical care, and provided them with information about sexual violence supports and services available in the community as set out in Appendix 1 attached hereto.  Students are not required to file a formal complaint to access supports and services.