This workshop, led by Brittani Fults and Velma Buckner, provides campuses with the necessary tools to design targeted programming and outreach for black students regarding power-based violence. Having intentional programming for black students by black students at historically white institutions allows for black students to uplift and empower their community and take action against relationship violence and sexual assault.
ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Culture of Respect Collective institutions have access to the full library of past professional development opportunities. Access recordings of past webinars below and be sure to complete the post-webinar survey for each webinar you view.
A Social Marketing Approach to Addressing the Normalization of Stalking on College Campuses
Social marketing campaigns use marketing techniques and behavior theories to cultivate behavior change. At George Mason University, a social marketing campaign called “Stalking Live Quiz” was created and implemented with the goal of raising awareness and beginning the conversation with students about stalking. The “Live Quiz” allowed students to walk through a peer-facilitated, life sized decision-tree on the normalization of stalking behaviors in college communities. Courtney Diener and Caitlyn Largent will explore this campaign and connect participants to strategies used in social marketing.
Hashtags, Follows, and Likes! Oh My!
Social media is a great way to engage with college students in an efficient way. Information can be shared quickly and in a medium that students are tuned into. Sarah Blanton and Brandy Reeves provide an overview of the social media strategy for the Student Wellness Center at the University of Cincinnati. Participants learn about media management software, how to maximize social media engagement, how to integrate peer educators and student workers into the social media strategy, and how to use analytics to evaluate and improve social media presence. Recorded June 20, 2019.
Don't Be Afraid to Catch Feels: Facilitating a Healthy Relationship Series for Students
This workshop provides participants with the tools to replicate a four-part healthy relationship series on their campus. Laura Luciano and Julie Millisky of Rutgers University- Camden share their experience creating and facilitating this series with sessions for students. Recorded May 29, 2019.
Using Branding & Marketing to Leverage Engagement in Sexual Violence Prevention
Looking for ways to maximize the impact of your programming and prevention education initiatives? In this webinar, Cohort 2’s Rebecca Harrington of SUNY Oneonta explores recent research in the fields of branding, marketing and neuropsychology to help you leverage the efforts on your campus. Recorded April 23, 2019.
How the Arts Break Barriers and Help Us Heal
Writer, poet, performer, and educator Caroline Rothstein shares how the arts can be a powerful and impactful tool on campus – and beyond – for sexual assault prevention and response. As an outspoken survivor of multiple accounts of sexual assault, Caroline has long used the arts a tool for both personal healing and public activism and change. In this webinar, we explore why the arts can help empower campuses, both students and administrators alike, to effectively create change. We help identify what road blocks and challenges exist on your campus and think about what arts media could best allow you and your campus to overcome any perceived barriers that slow down the process for sustainable prevention. Recorded March 19, 2019.
Community College, First Gen, and Military-Connected Students: Approaches to Sexual Violence Prevention & Response
This session features Kristen Roe of Montgomery College, Kristin Lowe of Monroe Community College, and Kimberly Dickman of the US Air Force Academy. They explore strategies that have worked – and failed – to prevent and respond to sexual violence with these student groups, what they’ve learned from those efforts, and what our institutions could do to better support these students. Recorded February 25, 2019.
What do we know about campus sexual violence? The Role of Assessment, Research, and Program Evaluation
There is a lot we know about campus sexual violence and it’s impacts on student health and safety, and there is still a lot we don’t. It is imperative for higher education professionals to understand the research literature and assessment data that can inform our approach to addressing sexual violence, as well as implement evaluation strategies to better understand our programs and their impact. This session provides a foundational overview of key concepts that will help student affairs professionals understand research data and support evaluation strategies of institutional prevention and response programs. Recorded December 6, 2018.
Workplace Sexual Violence & Harassment Prevention Programs: Campus Considerations
Addressing gender-based violence for employees in a campus setting requires special considerations because of the nuanced intersections of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To help campuses as employers develop and strengthen policies that better prevent and appropriately respond to the full spectrum of gender-based violence from sexual harassment to sexual violence, Futures Without Violence’s Workplaces Respond team hosted a 60-minute webinar providing a framework for strategies that employers can pursue to foster safer and more productive workplaces. Recorded October 30, 2018.
Branding Consent Culture: The Role of Marketing in Sexual Violence Prevention
In November of 2015, UC Davis launched its first-ever integrated marketing campaign addressing awareness and prevention of sexual violence through affirmative consent and bystander intervention. To create a campaign that would serve not only the UC Davis community but also as a model for other universities, the team consulted with faculty, staff, student leaders and subject matter experts from across the campus. This webinar discusses the creation and implementation of a successful a campus-wide sexual violence prevention marketing campaign, outlining different approaches for a range of budgets. Recorded June 13, 2018.
Equitable vs. Equal: Understanding the Growing Trend of Respondent Services on Campus
Recent months have brought about an increased concern over due process rights of respondents in campus sexual violence cases. This rush by some campus administrators and campus general counsel to provide fair services for both parties has resulted in some campuses conflating equitable with equal services, often resulting in negligence about how this impacts survivors. This has also resulted in an alarming trends on an increasing number of campuses of general counsel compelling victim advocates to provide support to respondents as well as survivors. The reality is that many campuses have been providing respondent support services, or some variation thereof, for those involved in conduct cases for years. However, there is importance in moving beyond compliance with expectations set forth by campus and political administrators and ensuring a standard of practice for providing services to those accused of power-based violence. This session addresses a range of questions, including how small campuses with fewer human resources can quell the inflated fears of campus administrators regarding equitable support for both parties, without compromising victim advocacy services or survivor safety. The institutional positionality of such support services to ensure survivor safety is explored, as well as addressing questions of and the distinct differences around confidentiality of each type of service. Recorded August 29, 2018.
Providing Equitable Support to Respondents: Respondent Services at the University of California
Institutions of higher education are identifying a need to provide support for students accused of sexual misconduct. Providing services to respondents requires staff to operate in a function that is newly developed and without established best practices. This session explore the need for the role, provides a model established by the University of California system and will provide a framework that may be helpful for others taking on this role. Recorded April 27, 2018.
JED Campus: A Public Health Approach to Campus Mental Health
Millions of students are attending college, seeking experiences and challenges that will help them grow intellectually and personally. These are defining moments which shape a person’s life, and emotional well-being is a significant predictor of how well students will navigate these challenges. JED Campus is a nationwide initiative of the Jed Foundation (JED) designed to help schools get ahead of these issues and develop campus-wide programs and policies that support mental health and prevent substance use problems and suicide. Recorded March 27, 2018.
Schoolwide Mobilization: Engaging the Campus Community for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)
This webinar, featuring Tracey Vitchers, director of It’s On Us, and Laura Palumbo from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), share resources and recommendations for engaging the entire campus community in Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Recorded January 30, 2018.
Using Research to Understand and Prevent the Perpetration of Sexual Violence
Most programs addressing sexual misconduct on college and university campuses are designed to improve responses to people who have been victimized and, more recently, increase bystander engagement. Building upon what is known about adult and adolescent sex offenders — those who commit sexual assault — Joan Tabachnick and Katie Hanna focus on emerging prevention innovations that can help reduce the perpetration of sexual violence. Recorded November 30, 2017.
All You Need to Know About CPE Training
The Certified Peer Educator (CPE) training is an effective strategy for building a well-educated and sustainable peer education group. CPE training helps peer educators develop foundational leadership skills to be able to successfully create and implement campus programs. As part of your Collective participation, your institution is entitled to two free registrations to the CPE Train the Trainer course, so you can build the capacity of your staff to implement CPE at your institution. This brief webinar, featuring NASPA’s Rachael Novick, explains what the CPE training is and how your institution can access it. Recorded February 19, 2020.
When Autism and Title IX Collide
Each year brings more students with autism to our campus. This should be a cause for celebration: it means they have experienced the kind of support and encouragement necessary for them to succeed in high school. But college is a different story. Some of the characteristics that lead to a diagnosis of autism create challenges for students with autism as well as the staff who work with them. Nowhere is this more evident than in the number of students with autism who find themselves the subject of Title IX complaints. This webinar will review common characteristics, how these might lead to complaints of harassment or assault, and what practitioners can do to “go upstream” and prevent misunderstandings from becoming formal charges.
Transcending White Supremacist Violence Towards Healing and Accountability Within Communities of Color
The legacy and enduring threat of racism often facilitates resistance to accountability for intra-community harms among people of color. Those impacted by sexual and relationship violence may avoid acknowledging harm out of distrust of racist institutions, or fear of repercussions for them, their community, and the individual responsible. Those who cause harm may be unduly protected by the community in ways that silence and invalidate survivors’ experiences. Examples of this are wide-ranging and particularly true for students of color on historically white college campuses. The presenter will trace the use of sexual violence in the interest of white supremacy throughout United States history and its present-day implications, and offer guidance for navigating these realities in prevention, accountability, and healing for students and individuals within communities of color.
OVW Campus Program
Join us for a conversation with representatives from the Office of Violence Against Women as they talk about the grant program, what schools that have been a part of the program are doing with the funds, and how being in the Collective creates a unique opportunity for institutions to apply for this funding opportunity.
Take Back the Net: Tried and True Tips and Tricks for a Trauma-Informed Virtual Take Back the Night
This workshop offers theoretical and practical advice for community and four-year colleges (as well as universities and graduate schools) on how to host a virtual Take Back the Night (TBTN). Expanding on pedagogical and ethical principles discussed in the NASPA CPE, this workshop examines these issues and provides guidelines – rather than exact protocols – for best practice. Eric will also share the perils and pitfalls that Virginia avoided along with the positive results, e.g., donations to various organizations and more.
Making Sexual Violence Bystander Intervention Cool, Relatable, and Embedded within Campus Culture
The presenters, which include undergraduate peer educators, share how to creatively engage students in sexual violence prevention work. Through discussing the CHECK IT program, presenters explore the key components of an effective bystander intervention program, ways to ensure our programs are grounded in social justice, and how to make our prevention programs “cool,” engaging and part of the campus culture. They also share innovative projects including the CHECK IT for Humanity card game and CHECK IT Loteria deck.
Cyber Sexual Abuse on Campus: The Prevalence of Nonconsensual Pornography Among College-Aged Individuals
Cyber sexual abuse is gender-based abuse facilitated via technology and new media (Zweig, Dank, Yahner & Lachman, 2013). Nonconsensual pornography, the distribution of sexually graphic images or videos without consent, is a prevalent form of cyber sexual abuse among college-aged individuals, those 18-24 years old (Eaton et al., 2017; Ruvalcaba & Eaton, 2019). This webinar will introduce participants to various forms of cyber sexual abuse, review data on the prevalence of nonconsensual pornography among college-aged individuals, and share practical recommendations for Student Affairs administrators.
Who SAID harm can’t be repaired through informal resolution?: Creating restorative & educational learning environments for students accused of sexual misconduct.
The College of New Jersey implemented an alternative resolution process grounded in restorative justice practices for Title IX and sexual misconduct cases and later for student conduct cases. The presenters will share a brief overview of how this was done and the challenges and successes along the way. The presenters will then share an outline of the educational and motivational intervention designed for this purpose and highlight the components of effective behavioral and attitudinal change.
Effective Interventions for Students Who Engage in Problematic Sexual Behavior
Emerging research about adults and adolescents who have committed a sexual offense has clearly shown the diversity of this group and the complexity of effective intervention. Similar to the nuanced remedies that survivors need, understanding the differences in those who commit sexual harm can help to expand the types of remedies practitioners can seek for survivors. Relying heavily on research related to problematic sexual behavior in adults, adolescents, and college students, this workshop is designed to provide practical insights to uncover a wider range of opportunities for justice and accountability for those impacted by sexual harm, their families, and their communities.
Objectives:
1. Describe key findings about those who cause harm to inform campus prevention and response efforts
2. Review practical suggestions to address the most significant tensions in campus disciplinary processes
3. Explain key reasons why research informed respondent services ensure a more solid outcome for survivors
Serving Neurodivergent Student Survivors
This session will introduce audiences to the “Neurodiversity Paradigm” while drawing on disability justice principles, the work of autistic liberation activists, and lived experience. This session will break down the pathology model of neurodivergence, opening up a view of neurodiversity that casts aside stigma and prioritizes accommodations as a form of empowerment. We will dive into how systemic ableism shows up on college campuses for students, faculty, and staff, as well as within domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases. We will practice challenging systemic ableism and facilitating inclusive spaces within your campus. We will also spend time discussing practical tips for working with neurodivergent survivors, and how to best support them through the campus investigation process.
Working with Student Social Media Activists to Build Opportunities for Power-Conscious Change
Survivors are continuing to turn to social media to share their experiences with sexualized violence as a form of storytelling, bringing their truth to power. As a result, campus professionals are finding accounts that describe perpetration of sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and harassment in their community. Instead of just reacting to these accounts, could those accounts instead be used to inform community change? Could we partner with the student activists involved to create community-level change?
At the University of Denver, Dr. Andy Thyrring worked with survivors’ and activists’ online community-based storytelling as a means to engage in action research; they used the resulting data to identify campus-specific awareness, prevention, and response in partnership with the student community. This case study centers elements of trauma informed care (SAMHSA, 2014), critical reflexivity (Strega & Brown, 2015), and power-consciousness (Linder, 2018) to interrogate the role of power in the perpetration of gender violence on the DU campus, and how we as professionals can work with students to enact change.
Through the process of this case study, you’ll be able to reflect on the awareness, prevention, and response programming in your communities; critically consider activism and storytelling as a tool to engage with students for community-based change; and connect with peers to brainstorm applications to your work.
Use Your Campus Climate Survey To Create Change
Too often, sexual misconduct climate surveys are seen as a mandate, something to do to fulfill a state (and soon, national) requirement. But climate surveys can be one of the most powerful tools to create cultural change. Dr. Kevin Swartout (Georgia State University) and Meredith Smith (the University of Virginia), the heads of the ARC3 Climate Survey, will walk you through how to best utilize climate surveys to inform your prevention work in this webinar. Dr. Swartout, the nation’s foremost expert on climate surveys, will explain what makes a strong climate survey so you can choose the best instruments for your campus, as well as what we know about the new VAWA requirements around surveys; Meredith will then lay out strategies to create a successful survey administration and then how you can turn your survey data into an action plan to address misconduct in your community.
Stalking: The Problem Lurking on College Campuses
The presenter will focus on helping administrators to understand stalking and why college students may be vulnerable to engaging in and being victims of stalking. Additionally, they will review the different typologies of individuals who engage in stalking behaviors and management strategies for each typology. Finally, the presenter will help administrators develop interventions that can be used with students who have been victims of stalking.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the different typologies of stalkers
- Explain reasons why students are prone to engage in stalking behaviors
- Identify interventions that can be used to manage individuals who engage in stalking behaviors
Implementing Sexual Health Programming on College Campuses
During this webinar participants will explore sexual health programming for colleges and universities with the purpose of 1) enriching existing programs to foster inclusivity and cultural awareness and 2) creating new sexual health programming to better serve the needs of college students. Various components of sexual health will be considered, including consent, safer sex practices, STI/HIV testing and education, safe BDSM and kink practices, and more. Participants will reflect on the ways that sexual violence prevention work overlaps with sexual health, and considerations when implementing sexual health programming. The presentation will conclude with strategies on ways administrators and staff can partner together to provide safe, accessible, and inclusive sexual education for all students.
From Church Pews to Residence Halls: How Purity Culture Can Lead to Rape Culture
Many college students find comfort in their spiritual/religious upbringing, building connections with other students who hold similar beliefs. Positive personal identities, such as salient spiritual/religious identities can strengthen students’ resilience levels and their sense of campus belongingness. At the same time, some college students are “growing out of” their religious/spiritual upbringing, realizing that they may have internalized ethical or moral beliefs that they believe to be harmful. Join Courtney Waltermire, NASPA’s previous practicum graduate student for Health, Safety, and Well-being Initiatives to learn about the origins, actual teachings, and the long-lasting effects of being raised in modern purity culture. Courtney will share about her personal experiences navigating unlearning purity culture, and the ways some purity culture beliefs promote rape myth/violence acceptance, bystander apathy, and chronic feelings of unworthiness.
Coordinated Community Response Teams: Cultivating Collective Leadership to Address Campus DVSAS
Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking (DVSAS) on campus are complex problems that require collective leadership and widespread community engagement. Join the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) in exploring how campus-based Coordinated Community Response Teams (CCRTs) can use a collective impact approach to reduce institutional silos and cultivate collective leadership. This webinar will provide an overview of the coordinated community response framework, explore structures and processes for implementing collective impact; and provide concrete strategies to increase shared decision-making and institutional commitment to address DVSAS.
Going Under the Needle After the Pain: Trauma Informed Body Modification
Meeting survivors where they are post assault happens in a variety of ways and locations, including at body modification studios. For many survivors body reclamation includes piercing, tattoos, suspension, scarification, etc. In addition, reduced access to advocacy and mental health services for folks who hold marginalized identities increases the importance of connection between alternative healing options and the need to cultivate a trauma informed educated network to support survivors. This type of collaborative is imperative for equitable and just campus or community-based advocacy.
This session will explain how a small collaboration between a piercing studio and a rape crisis center, led to a shift in national practices and policies. This session will outline specifically how this small collaboration led to big industry outcomes and cultivated positive healing experiences for survivors across the country. Through lecture, real world examples, and open questions participants gain transferable information and applicable resources to replicate this collaborative practice in their own communities. Watch the recording here
Data & Outcomes: Assessing & Evaluating Your Campus Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programming
“Assessment, evaluation, and research – where do you even begin with your campus’s gender-based violence prevention programming? Student learning takes place inside and outside the college classroom, and violence prevention programming offices have an opportunity to best assess and evaluate their programming. This session will walk participants along the assessment journey from designing student learning outcomes and identifying assessment measures and strategies to developing a communication plan to close the loop at the end of the assessment journey. In addition, presenters will detail how campuses can best use data to discern programming needs and highlight how the CAS Standards for Sexual Violence-Related Programs & Services can be used for a self and/or external evaluative tool to advance gender-based violence prevention programming.”
Understanding History and Power to Address Sexual Violence
In this workshop, we will explore historical roots of sexual violence in the U.S., and connect that history to current social, cultural, structural, and power dynamics operating on college campuses. Using a power-conscious framework, we will identify strategies to effectively address campus sexual violence that include shifting attention to the people who cause harm, identifying harmful behaviors, and developing strategies to prevent them.
Himpathy for Him, Hysteria for Her: Gender Stereotypes in Title IX Administrators’ Decision
In this talk, Dr. Nicole Bedera shares her nationally-acclaimed research on how gender stereotypes shape Title IX administrators’ decision-making processes and contribute to the widespread institutional betrayal of sexual assault survivors. Specifically, she explores how the role of empathy for men—or “himpathy”—leads Title IX administrators to feel guilty for holding perpetrators accountable, even when their hesitancies come at great cost to women on campus.
Love is Learned: Navigating Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships
The Collective invites Cohort institutions to join February’s webinar “Love is Learned: Navigating Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships” in collaboration with One Love. One love is a national leader in relationship health education to learn how to bring life-saving resources and conversations to young people about healthy and unhealthy relationships. At One Love, we empower young people to learn how to identify and avoid abuse and create a world of healthier relationships. Through our innovative video-and-discussion-based workshops and tools, we can help you start the conversation in the easiest way possible – at no cost. This session will explore One Love’s 10 Signs of a Healthy and Unhealthy Relationship, our key learning objectives, and view one of our films. You will learn how to implement these resources where you are, via our online Education Center. One Love was founded to honor the unnecessary and tragic death of college student-athlete, Yeardley Love by engaging young people through compelling, relatable films and honest conversations about healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.
Connecting the Dots of Serial Perpetration on Our Campuses
Many of you have been sitting in meetings where survivors have identified the same alleged perpetrator(s) as someone who is causing sexual harm on your campus. However, because you are bound by privacy and confidentiality laws and/or Title IX regulations, you cannot connect those survivors to each other and/or express that this person is a “frequent flyer.” Callisto Vault offers a safe way for survivors to connect with others harmed by the same perpetrator, receive confidential legal options counseling, and helps establish a pattern of problematic/predatory behavior. And guess what? This service is offered to your campuses – students, faculty, and staff – for FREE already. Come learn about Callisto Vault and how you can partner with us to address the issue of serial perpetration on your campus.
2024 Title IX Regs: Summary Session for NASPA Culture of Respect
Join Grand River Solutions experts, Andrea Stagg and Joseph Storch on Wednesday, May 15, 3:00pm EDT as they guide attendees through an overview of the 2024 Title IX Final Rules, including what if anything changed from the 2022 proposed rules. Andrea and Joe will provide practical guidance on how these changes may impact your institution and how you can best prepare for the deadline and the practical necessities for implementation. Beyond discussing the key highlights of the new regulations, facilitators will offer clarifications provided by the preamble and regulations on definitions, the geographical scope of the rules, and the helpful information included in the preamble.
Andrea Stagg
Andrea Stagg is Grand River Solutions’ Director of Consulting Services. Andrea’s work includes consulting and training on Title IX, equity, and safety. She has worked with federal and state legislators to develop state laws and follow best practices in campus safety and sexual harassment prevention. She was previously in-house counsel to Barnard College and the State University of New York.
Joseph Storch
Joseph Storch is the Senior Director of Compliance and Innovations. Joe’s work concentrates on developing new solutions for safety and equity challenges. He is a nationally recognized expert on Title IX, the Clery Act, and state laws covering violence and harassment, he twice testified before the Senate, drafted legislation and regulations, and regularly provides guidance for national associations and institutions. Joe previously served as Associate Counsel at The State University of New York Office of General Counsel and Chair of the Student Affairs Practice Group.
Mandatory Reporting Policies for Sexual Misconduct Under Title IX: A Review of the Evidence and Strategies for Supporting Survivors
This webinar will offer an in-depth examination of mandatory reporting policies for sexual misconduct Title IX. Mandatory reporting policies require certain employees to report any possible incidence of sexual misconduct that they learn about to university officials (even if the victim/survivor does not want a report). First, we will cover the history of such policies under Title IX, from the first guidance released by the OCR to the new 2024 regulations. Second, we will summarize empirical research investigating the implementation and efficacy of such policies. Third, we will discuss strategies for supporting survivors in the context of mandatory reporting. Finally, we will have an open question and answer session, where you can ask questions and share your thoughts.
Promoting Healing among Women and Femme Student Survivors of Color Collective Webinar
In this webinar, Dr. Karunaratne presents the findings from her critical qualitative research with 35 women and femme students of color who survived dating violence during college. She highlights the practices and modalities that students used to heal and persist in higher education, including connections with nature, spiritual practices and knowledge, body-based strategies, education, and more. Highlighting the existing barriers students navigated to accessing help and healing on campus, she provides implications and recommendations for institutional leaders to promote healing among minoritized students. View the recording here.