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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

Dates offered: 

• Wednesday, September 20th from 7:30-9:00 PM in Oglebay Hall, Room 106
  

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. 

Length of Training:  75 Minutes

Dates offered: 

• November 15th from 7:30-9:00 PM in Oglebay Hall, Room 106 
  

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

Dates offered: 

• Virtual - October 12th 11 AM - 12 PM

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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: 

• Wednesday, October 18th from 7:30-9:00 PM in Oglebay Hall, Room 106
  

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

Dates offered: 

Virtual – September 7, 2023 11 am – 12 pm

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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

Dates offered: 

• December 6th from 7:30-9:00 PM in Oglebay Hall, Room 106 
  

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

Dates offered: 

In Person – November 8, 2023: Mountainlair 5 pm – 7 pm 

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Past Trainings

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