Don’t Cancel That Class Initiative

This training discuss domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses. It gives attendees the knowledge and skills to safely intervene in certain situations. All of us are bystanders when we observe actions or situations that jeopardize someone’s safety or well-being. One way to address these situations is to be an active bystander and safely help others!

This course contains required content that may be upsetting to learners.

Identify characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships and know how to respond to an abusive relationship. This course will help learners understand:

• Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships
• Forms of domestic/dating violence
• Warning signs of an abusive relationship
• What to do if you’re involved in an unhealthy or abusive relationship
• Supporting friends who may be in an unhealthy relationship

This course contains required content that may be upsetting to learners.

Use of a trauma-informed approach when interacting with individuals affected by power-based violence consists of prioritizing: safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; and empowerment, voice, and choice. This course gives attendees the basic knowledge of power-based violence, trauma, and how to use a trauma-informed care approach in the workforce.

This course contains required content that may be upsetting to learners.

This presentation attempts to shed light on a pervasive and often misunderstood form of abuse. Stalking is a pattern of repeated, unwanted attention and contact by a person that causes fear or concern for one’s safety, and it affects millions of people in the United States each year. Recognizing the signs of stalking and knowing the resources available are essential steps in addressing this issue. This training specifically focuses on how stalking is portrayed in the media vs how it looks in reality.

This course contains required content that may be upsetting to learners.

Technology can be very helpful to survivors of power-based violence, but is also often misused by their unsafe person to harass, threaten, coerce, monitor, exploit, and violate their victims. This workshop will explain the ways advancing technology can lead to additional opportunities for abuse and the impact this type of abuse can have on victims. Participants will also learn about on- and off-campus resources that can assist victims in using technology safely.