how do i create change?

HOW DO I CREATE CHANGE?CHANGING CULTURE TO END GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

OVERVIEW OF CONVERSATION

Aligning our frameworks Understanding points of impact to effect change

Getting on the same page- what is available already An outline of what is already being undertaken (focusing on our campus)

Moving forward Dialoging about what new steps we can take or improvements we can make moving forward

FRAMEWORKS OF CHANGE

Understanding culture to dismantle rape culture

Individual

Relationship

Community

Societal

Public health models as our best models for institutional change- culture is institutional/an institution

FRAMEWORKS OF CHANGE, MEET SPHERES OF INFLUENCE

Individual- attitudes of beliefs

Relationship- interpersonal and peer groups norms

Community- systems of social capital in context

Societal- social and cultural norms

Societal

Community

Relationship

Individual

Societal

Community

Relationship

Individual


Relationship

Individual

FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE: ITS PERSONAL

Best Practices- evidenced based ways of doing work effectively

Awareness Raising (Educational)

Bystander Intervention

Risk Reduction- focused on perpetrator behavior


Relationship

Individual

GETTING ON THE SAME PAGE

What do you know about the opportunities to educate yourself and others or be a part of advocating for change on campus or in this area?

PREVENTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON OUR CAMPUS

HAVEN Online education model (CAPC)

Community of Hokies orientation conversations (NSFP)

Parents- families as partners conversation (NSFP)

Resource fair presence (WC & SC)

Passive programming via letters and resources in residence halls (SA)

Red Flag Campaign (WC)

The Clothesline Project (Womanspace)

Take Back The Night (Womnaspace)

White Ribbon Campaign (Echo Company)

Tittle IX & Policy 1025 Trainings (Human Resources)

HEAT Peer Educators: Helping Friends In Distress (Shifert)

FROM THE WOMEN’S CENTER

SAVES Peer educators available through most of the year to facilitate educational conversations

MVP (Mentors in Violence Prevention) Bystander Intervention presentations and trainings provided by faculty and staff volunteers for

students

Guest Lectures By the GBVPC or another member of the WC staff for classrooms

IN DEVELOPMENT WITH & FROM CAMPUS PARTNERS

SafeZone: Safe Dating and Healthy Relationships (MPS)

Second tier Bystander Intervention Training (Athletics)

Regular dialogues on campus (HI!!! Thanks for coming)

Student Summit (Womanspace & WC Student Interns)

BYSTANDER INTERVENTION

What does it mean to be an active bystander? In the moment?

When someone discloses an experience of sexual violence to you?

In YOUR ongoing relationships?

In the groups and small communities you are a part of

BYSTANDER INTERVENTION: HOW DO I ACTUALLY DO THAT?