Programs 4 Change

The University of Maine

Athletes for Sexual Responsibility

College Athletes

Address a number of sexuality issues. Show college athletes as role models for appropriate social and sexual behavior.

College athletes struggle with a number of sexuality issues, ranging from pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted disease prevention, dating dilemmas, communication problems, date rape and gang rape. The University of Maine is addressing these serious national problems through a unique peer education program that shows athletes as more than role models for physical strength, agility and stamina, but also as role models for appropriate social and sexual behavior. This program has become a model for colleges and universities across the country.

The semester long program trains student-athletes to present a variety of workshops including: "Rape Awareness," "Smart Sex" and "Drinking & Dating." It uses athletes as role models and actors who portray characters in damaging or potentially harmful sexual situations who then engage the audience to explore positive alternatives. The current troupe includes male and female student-athletes, representing the various intercollegiate sports at the University of Maine.

• Rape Awareness Video
• Smart Sex Video
• The Party Video
• Smart Sex Posters

• Rape Awareness Video: $80
• Smart Sex Video: $80
• The Party Video: $80
• Smart Sex Poster Series One: $40
• Smart Sex Poster Series Two: $40

College Athletes

One Semester

The University of Maine
Athletes for Sexual Responsibility
Dr. Sandra L. Caron
(207)581-3138
220 Merrill Hall
Orono, ME 04469

Boise State University

Women's Center

Got Consent? Campaign

Undergraduate Students

Increase awareness about consent, sexual assault, resources, and prevention.

The "Got Consent?" is a campaign developed in partnership with University Housing to increase campus awareness about consent, sexual assault, resources, and prevention. Talking points of the campaign: What is consent? Why have a consent campaign at Boise State University?

The campaign has consisted of:

• weekly posters in residence halls;
• weekly table tents in the Student Union Building (SUB);
• a closed circuit television advertisement;
• personalized valentines for students in the residence halls;
• consent cups to all residence hall students;
• a banner hung outside the SUB;
• discussion program in the Halls;
• first responder trainings;
• campus awareness raising (info at Safer Spring Break events, Sex in the Lobby Events, Bronco updates);
• campus wide trainings (Counseling Center, Gateway Center, SUB staff, Housing staff, University 101 classes, Cultural Center staff, Women's Center staff, ASBSU, etc.);
• presentations in the residence halls;
• pens;
• business cards;
• frequent surveys in Housing.

For more information about this campaign visit the website.

womenscenter@boisestate.edu

GASA was founded at the University of California, Davis

Greeks Against Sexual Assault (GASA)

Greek Life

Greeks Against Sexual Assault works towards increasing awareness, educating, and eliminating sexual assault and dating violence from the Greek community through peer education and activism amongst sororities and fraternities nationwide.

The University of California, Davis has in an effort to further target the Greek community, GASA was created through CVPP in the spring of 2007.  A class was developed and all Greek chapters were encouraged to have a representative enroll. The first class educated on the facts about sexual assault and the resources available on campus. The final project for the class was for each representative to go back and present their new knowledge to their own chapters.

Due to the enormous success of the pilot program, the class will be offered on a bi-annual basis and we look forward to sharing the program with many campuses in the coming months.

The symbol is a teal ribbon with two olive branches. The teal ribbon is the national symbol for sexual assault awareness and the olive branch is the Greek symbol for peace. There are two olive branches symbolizing sororities and fraternities coming together to eliminate sexual assault from the Greek community.

http://gasanow.org/home

College Greek Life

Ongoing each semester/quarter for education

Kingsley Grafft
National Director
kingsley@gasanow.org

University of Wyoming

Greek Men Against Assault (GMAA)

Greek Men

It is the mission of GMAA to provide education, awareness and empowerment to fraternity men in regards to relationship violence and sexual assault.

The gentlemen of GMAA are dedicated to eradicating sexual and relationship violence on the UW campus, and to empowering their fraternity brothers to make informed decisions in their own relationships.

Greek Men Against Assault work to not only prevent sexual and relationship violence within the UW Greek Community, but they also take a pledge to end violence in their everyday lives. By joining GMAA, every brother is expected to take the GMAA pledge and to live up to the standards that it sets forth.

"I,____________, proudly pledge my support to become part of the solution to assault. By writing my name and through training I am taking a public stand to confront violence and end assault. I am making a commitment that I will never use or justify emotional, verbal, sexual, economic or physical abuse against others.

For more information about GMAA visit the website.

On-Campus: Fraternity Brothers

Kate Steiner (ksteiner@uwyo.edu)

University of Kentucky

Green Dot

Social Group/Individual

The program proposes to target socially influential individuals from across community subgroups. The goal is for these groups to engage in a basic education program that will equip them to integrate moments of prevention within existing relationships and daily activities. By doing so, new norms will be introduced and those within their sphere of influence will be significantly influenced to move from passive agreement that violence is wrong, to active intervention.

The Green Dot strategy is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention that capitalizes on the power of peer and cultural influence across all levels of the socio-ecological model. Informed by social change theory, the model targets all community members as potential bystanders, and seeks to engage them, through awareness, education and skills-practice, in proactive behaviors that establish intolerance of violence as the norm, as well as reactive interventions in high-risk situations – resulting in the ultimate reduction of violence.

Bystander Pledge
http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/VIPCenter/greendot.html

Social Groups

Ongoing

University of Kentucky
Violence Intervention and Prevention Center
1 Frazee Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0031
859-257-3564

Haverford College

Men Against Sexual Assault

The Toilet Campaign

Men

Increase Men Against Sexual Assault presence on campus.

Conceived as a way to increase our presence on campus, the Toilet Campaign consists of quarter sheet postings over urinals (since we *know* that guys will read them) and on stall doors in bathrooms in both dorms and some academic buildings.

We offer the text of our posting below as a service, but it is © M.A.S.A.R. You may also download the flyer in PDF format if you'd like…

Help Stop Rape

Be safe, both about yourself and others. Do not assume that your partners desire for affection is the same as a desire for sex. Most victims already know their assaulters name and face. Be smart. Haverford may seem like a safe place, but statistics are just as high here as anywhere in the country.

Communicate your desires early and clearly in any intimate situation and listen to and respect what your partner says. Misunderstandings dramatically increase the risk of sexual assault.

Speak Out! When you hear comments that degrade women or support rape, like many jokes do, speak out against it. Take a stand on the issue, and allow yourself to be labeled anti-rape. Know and spread the truth about rape at Haverford: it happens just as much here as anywhere else.

Talk to each other. Sexual Assault is only a silent burden and an unspoken danger because we allow it to be.

Support Survivors. They are the causalities of our silence and inaction and deserve our love and support. If someone tells you their story, be understanding and believe them. Let them regain control of their life by themselves, but support that effort.academic buildings.

For more information about M.S.S.A.R and the Toilet Campaign visit the website.

M.A.S.A.R.
c/o Student Activities Office
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041
masar@haverford.edu

Sacramento State University

No Woman Left Behind Campaign

Undergraduate Students

To educate students about sexual violence and the role alcohol can play in those situations. To empower students to intervene when they see potentially dangerous situations. To encourage bystander intervention when students go out to parties or bars.

No Woman Left Behind started in the summer of 2007 after reading about the De Anza College rape case. Several members of the De Anza College baseball team allegedly assaulted a young girl at a party. Three women from the De Anza College soccer team intervened, fighting off the players and brought the girl to the hospital for treatment. No one at the party of over 50 people offered to help. “No Woman Left Behind” means that if you are at a party, a bar, or any other social gathering and you see someone passed out from alcohol consumption, it is your responsibility to step in.

Approximately 85% of sexual assaults involve alcohol and most of the time people at the party or gathering may be able to intervene before an assault occurs. Sacramento State wants to create an environment that allows for bystander intervention. To kick off the campaign, we had the three De Anza women speak at Sacramento State for about 200 sorority members and about 150 female athletes. At the conclusion of the event, we handed out glow-in-the-dark bracelets to each student. We also hand them out during sexual assault awareness month, Take Back the Night event and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.

Glow-in-the-dark wristbands symbolize our commitment to leaving no woman behind.

• Bracelets =.85/piece
• Website = $10
• Posters = $100

Off-Campus: ICAN Foundation, www.ican-foundation.org
On-Campus: Women’s Resource Center, GAMMA, Athletics

One to two hours for event

To learn more about the NWLB Campaign visit www.nowomanleftbehindcampaign.org

Jessica Heskin
Violence and Sexual Assault Support Services Coordinator
(916) 278-3779
Heskin@csus.edu

Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance

The Red Flag Campaign

Undergraduate Students

Target college students who are friends/peers of victims and perpetrators of dating violence. Educate friends/peers about “red flags” (warning indicators) of dating violence. Encourage friends/peers to “say something” (i.e. intervene in the situation).

The Red Flag Campaign is the first statewide public awareness campaign to address dating violence and promote the prevention of dating violence on Virginia’s college campuses, and is now being offered to and launched on campuses nationally.

The Campaign is a project of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, and was created by college students, college personnel, and community victim advocates. The Campaign is funded by a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation.

Research indicates that in 21% of college dating relationships, one of the partners is being abused. That’s 1 in 5 relationships (see citation below). Whether you are a student seeking help for yourself or a friend, or a professional seeking information about how you can help students, we hope the materials on this website will be helpful to you.

• Red Flags
• Posters

$850 includes:

• 20 copies of each poster (total of 160 posters),
• The Red Flag Campaign Campus Planning Guide on CD
• 200 flags emblazoned with The Red Flag Campaign website

College Students, Athletes, Staff, Professors.

A week/month to send the message out.

To learn more about The Red Flag Campaign visit www.TheRedFlagCampaign.org

Kate McCord: 804.377.0335
Liz Cascone: 804.377.0335
info@vsdvalliance.org

Southern Oregon University

Women's Resource Center

Yell it! Tell it! Stop Sexual Assault! Campaign

Campus community

To raise awareness within the campus community about the prevalence of sexual assault and about the Campus Safety Network response services available

To motivate the community to help prevent sexual assaults and to let them know what steps to take if a sexual assault does occur

To engage the community in removing barriers that discourage survivors from seeking healing and justice

To make sexual assault issues visible and discussions of sexual assault a more regular part of campus life

Sexual assault is widely considered to be the most underreported violent crime in America. College students are particularly vulnerable; according to a 2005 U.S. Department of Justice report, 35 out of every 1,000 women students on campus will be sexually assaulted in an average, 9-month school year. Fewer than 5% of these students will ever report their rape or attempted rape to campus authorities or law enforcement. Clearly, the need for action is urgent. Together, the Women’s Resource Center and the Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) are responding to this need with the Yell it!, Tell it! Stop Sexual Assault! campus wide campaign, began in the Fall of 2006.

Off-Campus: Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team
On-Campus: Women’s Resource Center

To learn more about the Yell it! Tell it! Stop Sexual Assault! Campaign visit www.sou.edu/wrc/Yellittellit.html

Women’s Resource Center
wrc@sou.edu
1250 Siskiyou Blvd
Ashland, OR 97520
Phone: (541) 552-6216
Fax: (541) 552-6440