Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Training Calendar
The Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offers a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Classroom series. This allows individuals in our campus and broader community to participate in trainings and educational opportunities without having to belong to a group that is requesting and/or receiving these trainings. We want our trainings and learning opportunities to be more accessible to smaller groups and interested individuals. If there are training topics you would like to see added to the DEI classroom series, please contact Assistant Director for Prevention, Education and Youth Protection, Cortney Simmons.
Note:
· Events may be canceled or rescheduled due to low registrations.
· Other trainings may be requested here: https://wvu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6iiMX7QcxCb7qCx
Spring 2024 DEI Classroom Catalog
April:
The AdvoChat:
Advocacy for Kids: Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention
Course Description: In this session, we will learn about child abuse prevention, appropriate interventions, and the movement to advocate for children to live in homes safe from violence, degradation, and neglect.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students, faculty, and staff who work with children or on topics related to child welfare.
Length of Training: 75 minutes
Dates offered: April 15, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Registration Link: https://wvu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoceuqpzIvEtf17k8iTLwggMZFFuTF6jCv
A Matter of Perspective: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Research
Course Description: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Research training introduces participants to the ways in which our enculturation can impact our epistemologies and our research.
Training Facilitator: Angel Cartwright
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: April 23, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 430 pm
Registration Link:
https://wvu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcu6hrTojHNPMcz0tjMk_c0U0ly7Q_HXR
May:
Working Productively with the WVU Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for WVU Researchers
Course Description: This training introduces the WVU research community to the services provided by the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as the processes and timelines associated with productive collaboration.
Training Facilitator: Angel Cartwright
Intended Audience: Faculty
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: May 7, 2024 from 3:00 pm -4:30 pm
Registration Link:
https://wvu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdu-oqDsvGt3OpW1fPRz2aEOZ80GLfBFP
Past Trainings
The AdvoChat:
The Body as a Crime Scene: Sexual Assault and Forensic Medical Exams
Course Description: This session will cover trauma informed practices through the lens of the medical forensic exam. We will cover the processes which take place during a medical forensic exam, how students and community members can access them, and how our local resources respond to help survivors. This material is sensitive: while it will not include graphic depictions (images, audio, or video) or descriptions (spoken or written on slides) of violence or injuries, participants are advised to consider their comfort with hearing about related medical or legal terminology or case examples prior to registration or attendance.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Their Own Words: Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
Course Description: “To survive is to defy those who would wish to see you erased from existence.” Primo Levi. For our last Their Own Words session, we will watch and discuss Nanette by Hannah Gadsby – a comedy special which is really a deep discussion of what it means to tell one’s story properly and how the form of expression impacts how people witness survivors. After watching the set, participants will discuss its message, the techniques used to share it, and how to incorporate its lessons into advocacy work.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Implicit Bias
Course Description: Implicit Bias training investigates how implicit biases develop and how we can disrupt them.
Training Facilitator: Caitlin Fulp
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Discussion with Deborah:
Supervisors You Gotta Eat the ELEPHANT!: Addressing Inappropriate Staff Behavior
Course Description
This session will allow participants to identify common challenges in addressing inappropriate employee behavior(s). Participants will be able to: explain the importance of empowering employees to inform others when behavior is unwelcome, consider the impact of evolving culture surrounding expectations for accountability in the workplace (including reputational harm for delayed or inadequate response), as well as examining ways in which clearly defined behavior expectations are or are not communicated to their employees.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Any staff member in a lead and/or supervisory role.
Length of Training: 60 minutes
The AdvoChat – Advocacy 101
Course Description: A brief primer on advocacy – what it is, how to do it, examples to look to and opportunities on campus. Students are encouraged to bring information about advocacy projects and organizations they’re interested in to recruit, share ideas, or seek ideas on how to take their advocacy further.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students interested in advocacy, whether as a volunteer, activist, or professional advocate.
Implicit Bias
Course Description: Implicit Bias training investigates how implicit biases develop and how we can disrupt them.
Training Facilitator: Caitlin Fulp
Intended Audience: Students
Time for IX:
Who Handles What: Title IX vs Student Conduct
Course Description: This session is designed to address common misunderstandings associated with filings under the Title IX process. This session will incorporate findings from the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities and Equity Assurance.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Students
Inclusive Language & Microaggressions
Course Description: Inclusive Language and Microaggression training provides a framework for inclusive communication, examples of microaggresssive behavior, and ways to address microaggressive behavior.
Training Facilitator: Angel Cartwright
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Their Own Words: Music and Dance
Course Description: This session will feature music and dance created by survivors, starting with looking at the work of Ballet After Dark, a dance company created by Tyde-Courtney Edwards which provides trauma-informed, holistic dance therapy to trauma survivors in Baltimore, MD. We will share songs by and about survivors and exchange dance moves to connect with our bodies and movement as healing.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 75 minutes
Implicit Bias
Course Description: Implicit Bias training investigates how implicit biases develop and how we can disrupt them.
Training Facilitator: Angel Cartwright
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Discussion with Deborah:
Did THAT Just Happen? Self-Care for Responsible/Reporting Employees
Course Description: This session will address the concepts of burnout and self-care and how they relate in the Title IX process. Participants will be able to recognize symptoms in themselves and in those working with/around them. Participants will examine how to take care of themselves when faced with aspects of Title IX to re-create positive, productive work environments.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Faculty and Staff
Time for IX:
So Now What? Role of the Case Manager in the Title IX Process
Course Description: This session clarifies the roles and responsibilities of the case manager and/or investigator within the Title IX process. This session also examines the responsibilities of mandated employees in working with each role to ensure the integrity of Title IX directives.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff, and Students
Their Own Words: Zine-making Workshop
Course Description: In this session, participants will examine some survivor-created ‘zines – small, self-published, non-commercial print-work produced in small batches. Through examining survivor materials, participants will examine rhetoric, argumentation, calls to action, and then have the opportunity to produce their own ‘zines on advocacy topics and discuss options for circulating materials on campus. Paper and art supplies provided, but participants are encouraged to bring any specific materials they would like to use.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students interested in creative advocacy options, including self-published work.
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Location: Woodburn Hall, Room 116
Dates offered: February 8, 2024 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Time for IX:
Sexual Assault, The Victimization of Vulnerable Populations and Title IX
Course Description: This session will examine the Sexual As
sault component of Title IX. Participants will examine
· how to promote and practice healthy relationships, behaviors and attitudes;
· how to intervene and stop disrespectful and problematic behavior;
· to believe survivors and help them in finding resources and support.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Students
Length of training: 45 minutes
Dates offered: February 9, 2024 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The AdvoChat:
Prevention: Early Intervention and Healthy Connections
Course Description: In honor of Teen Dating Violence Month (February), we will spend this advoChat discussing prevention of teen dating violence, focusing first on risk and protective factors, then moving on to discuss research-based primary interventions for preschoolers through high schoolers, and finally exploring how organizations like Child Advocacy Centers and CASA for Kids engage in secondary prevention efforts for kids who have experienced harm.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students who are interested in advocating on issues facing children, including child abuse and neglect, or who may work in education, child psychology, child development, or related fields.
Length of Training: 75 minutes
Dates offered: February 12, 2024 from 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Stalking and “You”:
Deconstructing Media Narratives of Stalking
Course Description: For four seasons of Netflix’s “You”, with a final season on the way, Joe Goldberg has engaged in horrifying acts of obsession and violence: following his targets, manipulating them into relationships, gaslighting them to remain, isolating them from their friends, and escalating levels of violence to protect himself from discovery. What relationship does this portrayal of stalking have to the real life experiences of stalking survivors, and what can it teach us when it comes to preventing stalking?
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Students interested in learning more about stalking, media analysis, and how media impacts how we see and interact with survivors and perpetrators of harm.
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: February 15, 2024 from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Time for IX:
I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me: Stalking and Title IX
Course Description: This session will allow participants to be able to articulate the difference between stalking and lurking. Participants will be able to isolate the conduct at issue in a report of stalking to determine if the behavior is repetitive and discuss the general dynamics related to stalking, including but not limited to the fact that: most stalkers use more than one tactic to follow, track, and/or pursue their victims, and the gender and age disparities in stalking.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 45 minutes
Dates offered: February 16, 2024 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm or 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The AdvoChat:
How to Help A Friend In Need
Course Description: This session covers everything you need to know to support a friend who has experienced sexual or gender-based violence. Students will leave this session with knowledge of victim rights, accessing trauma-informed care, and providing helpful, empathetic responses to their friends and loved ones.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students looking for information on how to support friends and loved ones who have experienced intimate partner violence or sexual violence.
Length of Training: 75 minutes
Dates offered: February 26, 2024 from 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Microaggressions and Inclusive Language
Course Description: Inclusive Language and Microaggression training provides a framework for inclusive communication, examples of microaggresssive behavior, and ways to address microaggressive behavior.
Training Facilitator: Caitlin Fulp
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: February 20, 2024 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The AdvoChat:
50,000,000: The Modern Era of Slavery
Course Description: In 2023, an estimated 50,000,000 people lived in some form of bondage, including labor trafficking and sex trafficking, brought there through force, fraud, or coercion. The global trafficking industry generates $150 billion dollars in profits each year, and it happens everywhere - including here in West Virginia. In this session, participants will come to understand the nature of trafficking, the scope of the issue, review relevant laws, and see how law enforcement and advocacy groups respond to support survivors of Trafficking.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: WVU students, faculty, and staff interested in becoming more aware of trafficking and issues faced by survivors.
Length of Training: 60 minutes
Dates offered: January 10, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion with Deborah:
Supervisors You Gotta Eat the ELEPHANT!: Addressing Inappropriate Staff Behavior
Course Description: This session will allow participants to identify common challenges in addressing inappropriate employee behavior(s). Participants will be able to: explain the importance of empowering employees to inform others when behavior is unwelcome, consider the impact of evolving culture surrounding expectations for accountability in the workplace (including reputational harm for delayed or inadequate response), as well as examining ways in which clearly defined behavior expectations are or are not communicated to their employees.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Any staff member in a lead and/or supervisory role.
Length of Training: 60 minutes
Dates offered: January 16, 2024 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am or 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Time for IX – Mandated Reporting
Course Description: This session will guide participants through the mandated reporting responsibilities. We will examine applicable federal laws and common reporting scenarios. The session will outline Title IX, the Clery Act, and Title VII, the reportable behaviors and how to respond accordingly. Participants will examine strategies and techniques to navigate conversations with others about their responsibility to report a disclosure. Upon completion of the session, participants should be able to:
· comply with federal and state laws, regulations, and institutional policy;
· identify and define behaviors that one may be required to report;
· describe actions a mandated reporter should take when responding to a disclosure;
· direct impacted individuals to available institutional and local resources.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff, and Students
Length of Training: 45 minutes
Dates offered: January 19, 2024 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Microaggressions and Inclusive Language
Course Description: Inclusive Language and Microaggression training provides a framework for inclusive communication, examples of microaggresssive behavior, and ways to address microaggressive behavior.
Training Facilitator: Caitlin Fulp
Intended Audience: Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: January 23, 2024 from 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Time for IX – So Now What?: Role of the Case Manager In the Title IX process
Course Description: This session clarifies the roles and responsibilities of the case manager and/or investigator within the Title IX process. This session also examines the responsibilities of mandated employees in working with each role to ensure the integrity of Title IX directives.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff, and Students
Length of Training: 45 minutes
Dates offered: January 23, 2024 from 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Cultural Dimensions
Course Description: Cultural Dimensions training introduces participants to the ways in which our enculturation can impact how we communicate and collaborate.
Training Facilitator: Angel Cartwright
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Length of Training: 90 minutes
Dates offered: January 23, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion with Deborah:
Masterclass: VETERANS – The Challenges Symposium
Course Description: This session is designed for student veterans to discuss the unique challenges that veterans face, leaving the military and to college in an open forum. The objective is to provide attending veterans with networking opportunities amongst each other to use as a support group in dealing with post-military challenges.
Training Facilitator: Deborah Blakney
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Student Veterans
Length of Training: 45 minutes
Dates offered: January 26, 2024 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm or 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The AdvoChat:
Stalking: Know it, Name it, Stop it
Course Description: SPARC is the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center, and in this advoChat participants will be able to participate in their Know It, Name It, Stop It training, which increases their ability to recognize signs of stalking and connect people to assistance. Following this training, participants will be aware of local area resources for assisting those experiencing stalking both on and off campus.
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Length of Training: 60 minutes
Dates offered: January 29, 2024 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Their Own Words: Life in Verses (Survivors Speak Series)
Course Description: As part of the Survivors Speak Series, Their Own Words: Life in Verses will focus on poetry written by survivors of gender-based and sexual violence. Participants will analyze three poems brought by the facilitator but are encouraged to also bring poems that have touched them to the group. This will also feature an activity to create one’s own poem, should participants choose to do so.
“What I was wearing” – Mary Simmerling / “Healing” – Nayo Jones / “The Jailer” – Sylvia Plath
Training Facilitator: Maggie von Dolteren
Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students interested in the works of survivors and creative pursuits as a tool for survivors to heal, speak, and advocate.
Length of Training: 75 minutes.
Dates offered: January 31, 2024 from 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Supporting LGBTQ+ Minors
Course Description:
This training is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively work with and protect minors who identify as LGBTQ+. Participants will explore the unique challenges and experiences faced by LGBTQ+ youth and understand the importance of creating safe and inclusive environments for their well-being. The training will delve into strategies for fostering acceptance, building trust, and providing appropriate support to help LGBTQ+ minors thrive. Additionally, participants will learn about legal and ethical considerations, including confidentiality and mandated reporting, to ensure the protection and rights of LGBTQ+ youth are upheld.
Length of Training: 1 hour
The AdvoChat
Course Description:
The AdvoChat is a bi-weekly, 1 hour session on a variety of topics related to advocacy from basic education on accessing resources, core principles and activities of advocacy, and basic information about prevention of power-based personal violence such as sexual violence and interpersonal violence.
Sessions include time to answer participant questions, which can be submitted in advance through peeradvocates@mail.wvu.edu. Participants in need of confidential assistance should call the Equity Assurance Hotline at 304-906-9930
Intended Audience:
Students, faculty, and staff interested in learning about power-based personal violence and prevention efforts, especially those looking to participate in WVU Peer Advocates or similar advocacy-oriented student groups, considering working in an advocacy field, or simply looking to learn how to support a friend in need.
Length of Training: 1 hour
Children on Campus Training – Rule on Child Protection
Course Description:
Are you looking to renew your Children on Campus training certificate or perhaps you would like to learn more about how West Virginia University serves youth on campus and across the state? Join us as we examine West Virginia University Rule on Child Protection and its application to activities, programs and events serving youth. You will learn about BOG Rule 1.7: Rule on Child Protection, strategies and best practices for working with youth, and how to recognize, respond and report all allegations of child abuse, child sexual abuse and neglect.
Intended Audience:
This training is required every three (3) years for any adult that plans on participating directly in a WVU Youth Program hosting visiting children. Anyone interested in learning more about Children on Campus or hosting a program is more than welcome to attend.
Length of Training: 1 hour
Consent Tea Party
Course Description:
Inspired by the famous Consent Tea video, the Consent Tea Party is an interactive workshop built around creating the perfect cup of tea. During the event participants will be able to practice communicating expectations, setting boundaries, and rejection. The exercise serves as a model for healthy communication about sexual encounter.
Intended Audience:
This training is designed for parents, guardians, grandparents, and professionals who work with children and families, including educators and administrators, childcare providers, youth-serving organizations, health and human service providers, faith-based organizations, and victim advocates.
Length of Training: 1 hour
Dialoguing for Relationships, Advocacy, and Education
Course Description:
“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.” – Paulo Freire
This 75-minute session will focus on dialogues and their place in relationships, advocacy and education, allowing participants to build communication skills and facilitation skills using dialogues. Starting with a fishbowl discussion on how to dialogue as an example, participants will be paired to practice 1-on-1 dialogues with support, then come back together to discuss how to use dialogues in academic and educational settings. Participants will receive a take-home to take with them to continue practicing dialogue skills.
Intended Audience:
WVU students, faculty, and staff, especially Peer Advocates and those interested in advocacy, human services, and education-related fields.
Empower Me: Overview for Adults
Course Description:
This session covers best practices for parents and those who work with youth, teaching them about how to make personal body safety messages empowering and effective. You will learn the importance of having ongoing personal safety talks as a family. Recognizing the danger and ineffectiveness of focusing only on strangers and preparing each participant to talk to children about touches are some expected key takeaways.
Intended Audience:
This training is designed for parents, guardians, grandparents, and professionals who work with children and families, including educators and administrators, childcare providers, youth-serving organizations, health and human service providers, faith-based organizations, and victim advocates.
Length of Training: 1 hour
The HEARTS of Healthy Relationships
Course Description:
Did you ever learn how to conscientiously form healthy relationships – whether those are friendships, work relationships, or romantic connections? Who taught you what health is in relationships? Do you know your attachment style? The HEARTS workshop is designed to create a safe place for students to consider how they engage in relationships, identify their strengths, and learn new skills for managing relationships which focus on consent and collaboration.
Intended Audience:
WVU Students
Length of Training: 90 Minutes
Dates offered:
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Wednesday, October 25th from 7:30-9:00 PM in Oglebay Hall, Room 106
Title IX Process Overview
Course Description:
The Title IX Process Overview provides a more detailed look into the Title IX resolution process from the initial report through informal resolution or all the way to a hearing.
Intended Audience:
WVU faculty, staff, or students.
Length of Training: 1 hour
Self-Care, Not After-Care
Course Description:
Self-care is important, but some of what we think of as self-care is actually aftercare: a way to take care of yourself after you have already been hurt or exhausted, and need to renew. The Self Care, Not Aftercare workshop focuses on pro-active self-care techniques including learning how to identify signs of burnout before it happens, setting boundaries, identifying when you need outside help, and creating communities where care and support are exchanged freely. This is designed to be a relaxing evening of comfort and community care to help you prepare for exam week and beyond.
Intended Audience:
WVU students looking for ways to proactively prevent and reduce stress and support themselves and each other through exam week.
Length of Training: 90 Minutes
Supporting LGBTQ+ Minors: Empowering Allies and Advocates
Course Description:
This training is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively work with and protect minors who identify as LGBTQ+. Participants will explore the unique challenges and experiences faced by LGBTQ+ youth and understand the importance of creating safe and inclusive environments for their well-being. The training will delve into strategies for fostering acceptance, building trust, and providing appropriate support to help LGBTQ+ minors thrive. Additionally, participants will learn about legal and ethical considerations, including confidentiality and mandated reporting, to ensure the protection and rights of LGBTQ+ youth are upheld. Through interactive discussions and case studies, attendees will gain practical tools and resources to become compassionate allies and advocates in their respective professional and personal lives.
Intended Audience:
This training is designed for parents, guardians, grandparents, and professionals who work with children and families, including educators and administrators, childcare providers, youth-serving organizations, health and human service providers, faith-based organizations, and victim advocates. Students, staff, and faculty are all encouraged to attend.
Length of Training: 1 hour
Bystander Intervention
The program is designed to help WVU community members evaluate situations for potential
violence, assess their options, and choose a safe bystander action. Participants
are taught to identify potential areas of risk for violence then intervene in
a safe manner with the STOP.ACT.RESPECT model. Participants will have the opportunity
to ask questions and to discuss the issues of sexual assault and harassment on
campus while learning about WVU’s Board of Governor’s Governance Rule 1.6 which
prohibits discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct, dating & domestic
violence, stalking, and retaliation.
Intended audience: This training is primarily designed for WVU students, but it is open to faculty and staff as well.
Weekly AdvoCHAT
Join the DDEI team's Prevention Education Specialist for a weekly AdvoCHAT! Want to improve your advocacy skills or find out how to get involved on campus? Want a safe space to learn about consent, healthy relationships, and prevention on campus? This is it!
Location: Zoom
Dynamics and Impacts of DV
This 60-minute session is a primer on intimate partner violence. By the end of this session, students will be able to identify signs of IPV, understand the contexts in which violence can occur in a relationship, and become familiar with community resources for survivors.
Peer Support: How To Help A Friend
This session covers everything you need to know to support a friend who has experienced sexual or gender-based violence. Students will leave this session with knowledge of victim rights, accessing trauma-informed care, and providing helpful, empathetic responses to their friends and loved ones.
A Movement, not a Moment: #MeToo
This session covers the MeToo movement from its creation by Tarana Burke through its resurgence as a hashtag to the present work. Learn how Peer Advocacy contributes to the work of the broader movement to end sexual violence in our communities and how you can get involved on campus.
Trauma and Medical Forensic Exams
This session will cover trauma informed practices through the lens of the medical forensic exam (aka rape kits, SAFE kits, SAECK). We will cover the processes which take place during a medical forensic exam, how students and community members can access them, and how our local resources respond to help survivors.
Advocacy 101
A brief primer on advocacy – what it is, how to do it, examples to look to and opportunities on campus.
What is Prevention?
A workshop on moving from awareness-based programming, which educates students on the facts, to a prevention lens, which focuses on building skills and cultural norms that can prevent harm before it occurs. We will explore the connections between prevention and transformative justice, the CDC socio-ecological model, levels of prevention, and opportunities for students to work on prevention initiatives.
Microaggressions/Inclusive Language
Course Description: Microaggression and Inclusive Language training identifies and
provides examples of different types of microaggresssive behavior and provides
general guidelines for inclusive communication.
Intended Audience: Students, Staff, and Faculty
Implicit Bias
Course Description: Implicit Bias training investigates how implicit biases develop and how we can disrupt them.
Intended Audience: Students, Staff, and Faculty
Higher Level: Part 1 – Examining and Understanding Implicit Bias
Higher Level: Part I: Examining and Understanding Implicit Bias will provide the
Mountaineer community with an overview of implicit bias: what it is, its impacts
on others and how it affects our behavior. Participants will examine the influence
implicit bias has on us as individuals and in society.
Intended Audience: This training is designed for people who are beginning to learn and want to learn more about implicit bias including faculty, staff, students, and community members.
Children on Campus Training - Rule on Child Protection
Are you looking to renew your Children on Campus training certificate or perhaps
you would like to learn more about how West Virginia University serves youth
on campus and across the state? Join us as we examine West Virginia University
Rule on Child Protection and its application to activities, programs and events
serving youth. You will learn about BOG Rule 1.7: Rule on Child Protection, strategies,
and best practices for working with youth, and how to recognize, respond and
report all allegations of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and neglect.
Intended Audience: This training is required every three (3) years for any adult who plans on participating directly in a WVU Youth Program hosting visiting children. Anyone interested in learning more about Children on Campus or hosting a program is more than welcome to attend.
One Love Escalation
Escalation is a film that honestly and compellingly tells the story of an abusive
relationship –– from its sweet beginnings to the tragic end. The authentic depiction
of unhealthy behavior escalating into violence helps you understand and recognize
the early signs of relationship abuse. The 40-minute screening is followed by
a guided discussion.
Intended Audience: WVU Students
Title IX Process Overview
The Title IX Process Overview provides a more detailed look into the Title IX resolution process from the initial report through informal resolution or all the way to a hearing.
Intended Audience: WVU faculty, staff, or students.
Empower Me: Overview for Adults
This session covers best practices for parents and those who work with youth, teaching
them about how to make personal body safety messages empowering and effective.
You will learn the importance of having ongoing personal safety talks as a family.
Recognizing the danger and ineffectiveness of focusing only on strangers and
preparing each participant to talk to children about touches are some expected
key takeaways.
Intended Audience: This training is designed for parents, guardians, grandparents, and professionals who work with children and families, including educators and administrators, childcare providers, youth-serving organizations, health and human service providers, faith-based organizations, and victim advocates.
Title IX
West Virginia University’s Title IX training is designed to inform WVU community members about our obligations to prevent violence and the resources available in our community to those whose lives have been affected by it. We will define and discuss key concepts, such as discrimination, stalking, sexual violence, and domestic violence. We will also discuss mandatory reporting obligations for WVU employees and leave ample time for questions.
Intended Audience: WVU faculty, staff, and students
Children on Campus Training - Rule on Child Protection
Are you looking to renew your Children on Campus training certificate or perhaps
you would like to learn more about how West Virginia University serves youth
on campus and across the state? Join us as we examine West Virginia University
Rule on Child Protection and its application to activities, programs and events
serving youth. You will learn about BOG Rule 1.7: Rule on Child Protection, strategies,
and best practices for working with youth, and how to recognize, respond and
report all allegations of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and neglect.
Intended Audience: This training is required every three (3) years for any adult who plans on participating directly in a WVU Youth Program hosting visiting children. Anyone interested in learning more about Children on Campus or hosting a program is more than welcome to attend.
Higher Level: Part II – Understanding Bias in the Context of Power & Oppression
Higher Level: Part II explores how societal norms unequally benefit or disadvantage
members of different social/identity groups. This session acknowledges that all
people hold and experience bias but interrogates why particular groups tend to
be recipients of bias more often and consistently.
Intended Audience: This training builds on Higher Level: Part 1. It is recommended that participants take both sessions, although it is not required. This session welcomes faculty, staff, students, and community members.
Consent & Ice Cream
Through an interactive workshop, students will learn about sexual consent by building
ice cream sundaes. During the event participants will be paired up and asked
to select toppings for ice cream sundaes through communication and compromise.
The exercise of discussing likes and dislikes using traditional ice cream toppings
serves as a model for healthy communication about sexual encounters.
Intended Audience: WVU Students
Stalking Public Awareness Campus Workshop
Everyone has a role to play in knowing, naming and stopping stalking. This workshop
is intended for a broad campus audience, from students to faculty and staff.
It can be facilitated at new student orientations and smaller groups on campuses
(such as fraternities/sororities, gender center programming, or religious organizations.)
Intended Audience: This program is designed for WVU Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Stop.Act.Respect. Bystander Intervention
This training is about bystander intervention to address violence and discrimination.
Both inside and outside of the larger WVU community, all of us can do more to
step up and help one another.
Intended Audience: This program is designed for WVU Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members.
Bringing in the Bystander: Bystander Intervention
This program is designed to help WVU community members evaluate situations for
potential violence, assess their options, and choose a safe bystander action.
Participants are taught to identify potential risk areas for violence and then
intervene safely with the STOP.ACT.RESPECT Model. The overall goal is to increase
active or pro-social bystander responses and reduce sexual, dating, and stalking
violence on campus.
Intended Audience: This program is designed for WVU Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Consent & Tacos
Through an interactive workshop, students will learn about sexual consent by building
tacos. During the event participants will be paired up and asked to select toppings
for tacos through communication and compromise. The exercise of discussing likes
and dislikes using traditional tacos toppings serves as a model for healthy communication
about sexual encounter.
Intended Audience: This program is designed for WVU Students.
The HEARTS of Healthy Relationships
Course Description: Did you ever learn how to conscientiously form healthy relationships
– whether those be friendships, work relationships, or romantic connections?
Who taught you what health is in relationships? Do you know your attachment style?
What even is that? The HEARTS workshop is designed to create a safe place for
students to consider how they engage in relationships, identify their strengths,
and learn new skills for managing relationships which focus on consent and collaboration.
Intended Audience: WVU Students
ONE Love: Know the Signs
Course Description: WVU Peer Advocates will be hosting a ONE LOVE event for
students, faculty, and staff. ONE LOVE is a national organization working to
end relationship abuse through facilitated conversations and dialogue. Join us
for a workshop that will tell you what the signs of a healthy relationship and
an unhealthy relationship are, while giving you the chance to apply this knowledge.
Intended Audience: WVU Students