Community Friends

Requests for Training and Workshops

 

 

CARE provides important resources and information about developing and maintaining healthy relationships, information about sexual assault, personal safety, and gender issues.     Services include consultation,  advocacy and referrals to community agencies, individual and group counseling, trainings & workshops, and campus-wide prevention programming.    To schedule a Workshop or to speak with a staff member, please visit CARE at 630 Aldrich Hall or call (949) 824-7273 or submit an online Workshop Request Form.

  

When requesting a program, training, or workshop through CARE, you have several presenters to choose from.  Below you will find a list of our presenters, with a brief description of the programming they can provide.  Please indicate the trainer that you would like for your program, keeping in mind that CARE may assign another presenter based on appropriateness or availability.

  

Robert Buelow, Violence Prevention Coordinator

Rob can provide workshops and trainings on the    awareness and prevention of sexual assault and intimate partner violence, consent, bystander intervention, risk reduction, alcohol and rape drugs, gender socialization, women's self-defense, and campus/community  resources.

 

Mandy Mount, Ph.D., CARE Director

Dr. Mount specializes in staff/RA trainings regarding sexual assault and intimate partner violence, crisis    intervention, gender, sexuality, and multicultural issues, resources and referrals, and academic/career development.

 

Right to KNOW

Right to KNOW is a female peer-education group that presents interactive workshops on dating and consent, sexual assault awareness and survivor support,      interpersonal assertiveness and building positive relationships.

 

CHAMPS (Challenging All Men to Prevent Sexism)

CHAMPS is a male peer-education group that focuses on the awareness and prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence. CHAMPS can provide workshops about gender, healthy communication between intimate partners, and ways to stand up against sexual assault.

 

 

Programming Topics

 

Definitions and Statistics

An in-depth discussion of the following terms, including legal definitions, campus policies, and realistic scenarios that fall into each of these categories:

• Rape
• Sexual Assault
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Prevalence of sexual/relationship violence

 

Consent

• What constitutes consent and what does not?
• The importance of consent in intimate relationships
• Ways to get consent
• Consent and alcohol

 

Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships

• Aspects of healthy relationships
• Aspects of unhealthy relationships
• Signs of abuse
• Setting boundaries
• Positive communication with dating partners

Stopping Sexual Violence

• Suggestions for helping to reduce the incidence of sexual violence and abuse
• Bystander intervention
• Proactive solutions
• Consent and communication

  

Supporting victims

• Communicating with survivors of rape, sexual assault, or relationship violence
• Effects of abuse on victims
• What to say, what not to say
• How to best support victims
• Victim's rights

 

Resources

• Campus and community resources for survivors or their friends/family
• Counseling/support
• Medical
• Legal/Administrative
• Discussion of the services provided by these resources

 

"Rape Culture"

• Discussion of the factors that contribute to sexual violence and abuse
• Media
• Gender roles
• Rape myths and victim blaming
• Language

 

Campus Policy

• Response protocol/procedures
• Mandated reporters
• Campus/community referrals

 

Alcohol and Rape Drugs 

• Characteristics of rape drugs
• Effects
• Dangers
• Effects of alcohol
• Role of alcohol on "hooking up"
• Expectations
• Effects on communication
• Alcohol and sexual violence
• Responsible drinking

 

 

 

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