Members of the Resolution Team are trained annually, and can serve in the following roles, at the discretion of the Title IX Coordinator:
- Appropriate intake of and initial guidance pertaining to Formal Complaints
- Advisor to Parties
- Informal Resolution Facilitator
- Perform or assist with initial evaluation
- Investigator
- Decision-maker for challenges to emergency removal and supportive measures
- Decision-maker
- Appeal Decision-maker
Team Members
- Danielle Brown Friberg, Title IX Coordinator & Interim Dean of Students for Traditional Undergraduate Programs
- Denise Necoechea, ADA/504 Coordinator
- Amanda Bolton, Dean of Students, Graduate Professional Studies
- Heather McClary, Legal and Compliance Coordinator, Deputy Title IX Coordinator
- Amber Hanna, Student Success Counselor
- Anita LaMotte, Assistant Director, Human Resources
- Bethany Denney, Director of Residential Life
- Bre Golden, Title IX Decision Maker and Appeal Officer
- Caye Smith, Student Development Consultant
- Charlene Patterson, Welcome Week Coordinator
- Connor Mathisen, Director of New Student Engagement
- Ellen Pearson, RN, Wellness Center
- Jen Hills, Graduate and Professional Studies Coordinator
- Jong Yoon, Resident Director, Goodwin Hall
- Lindsay Powell, Manager of Learning and Development
- Kaitlin Sorgea, Health Promotion Specialist
- Kathy Lee, Resident Director, Nease West
- Kaz Trypuc, Assistant Director of Public Safety
- Marsha Hubbard, Resident Director, Colony Apartments
- Kathryn Homer, Senior Generalist, Human Resources
- Samara Timms, Associate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
- Sophia Starner, Admissions Counselor
- Tom Egan, Director of Military Programs and Services
Resolution Team Training Materials
Resolution Team receive training as follows:
- The scope of the University ’s Nondiscrimination and Anti-harassment Policy
- The University ’s Resolution Process
- How to conduct investigations and hearings that protect the safety of Complainants and Respondents, and promote accountability
- Implicit bias and confirmation bias
- Treating Parties equitably
- Disparate treatment
- Disparate impact
- Reporting, confidentiality, and privacy requirements
- Applicable laws, regulations, and federal regulatory guidance
- How to implement appropriate and situation-specific remedies
- How to investigate in a thorough, reliable, timely, and impartial manner
- Trauma-informed practices pertaining to investigations and resolution processes
- How to uphold fairness, equity, and due process
- How to weigh evidence
- How to conduct questioning
- How to assess credibility
- Impartiality and objectivity
- How to render findings and generate clear, concise, evidence-based rationales
- The definitions of all prohibited conduct
- How to conduct an investigation and grievance process, including administrative resolutions, hearings, appeals, and Informal Resolution Processes
- How to serve impartially by avoiding prejudgment of the facts at issue, conflicts of interest, and bias against Respondents and/or for Complainants, and on the basis of sex, race, religion, and other protected characteristics
- Any technology to be used at a live hearing
- Issues of relevance of questions and evidence
- Issues of relevance and creating an investigation report that fairly summarizes relevant and not impermissible evidence
- How to determine appropriate sanctions in reference to all forms of harassment, discrimination, and/or retaliation allegations
- Recordkeeping
Additional Training Elements Specific to Title IX
All investigators, Decision-makers, and other persons who are responsible for implementing Point Loma Nazarene University’s Title IX policies and procedures will receive training related to their duties under Title IX promptly upon hiring or change of position that alters their duties under Title IX or this part, and annually thereafter. Materials will not rely on sex stereotypes. Training topics include, but are not limited to:
- How to conduct a sex discrimination resolution process consistent with the Nondiscrimination Procedures, including issues of disparate treatment, disparate impact, sex-based harassment, quid pro quo, hostile environment harassment, and retaliation
- The meaning and application of the term “relevant” in relation to questions and evidence, and the types of evidence that are impermissible regardless of relevance under the Title IX Regulations
- Training for Informal Resolution facilitators on the rules and practices associated with Point Loma Nazarene University’s Informal Resolution process
- The role of the Title IX Coordinator
- Supportive Measures
- Clery Act/VAWA requirements applicable to Title IX
- Point Loma Nazarene University’s obligations under Title IX
- How to apply definitions used by the University with respect to consent (or the absence or negation of consent) consistently, impartially, and in accordance with Policy
- Reasonable modifications and specific actions to prevent discrimination and ensure equal access for pregnancy or related conditions
- Any other training deemed necessary to comply with Title IX
Recent Trainings
2021-2022
Atixa Coordinator Training Level One
Atixa Coordinator Training Level Two
Atixa Coordinator Training Level Four
Husch Blackwell Coordinator and Investigator Training
Husch Blackwell Informal Resolution
PLNU Title IX Overview Training
ICS End of Year Review
Title IX Solutions Investigator Training*
ATIXA What California Schools Need to Know About SB 493
ATIXA Pregnancy and Title IX
ATIXA Hearing Officer and Decision Maker
ATIXA Informal Resolution Level One
ATIXA Bias & Cultural Competency
Husch Blackwell Advanced Title IX Training
2022-2023
PLNU Title IX Team Training
Title IX Changes & Lessons Learned
Title IX Changes & Lessons Learned TrainEd
ATIXA - Civil Rights Investigator One Foundations
ATIXA - Title IX Compliance and Athletics
ATIXA - Investigation Report Writing for Higher Education
PLNU Title IX Team - Investigations
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