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Student leaders at Eastern Mennonite University have begun receiving Green Dot proactive bystander training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their week-long orientation, 34 community advisors and pastoral assistants participated in the training. This was the first student bystander training on campus; 68 faculty and staff received overview training in spring 2019. The Green Dot rollout will continue with additional sessions offered each semester, and all incoming students will receive training at the beginning of next school year in fall 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its tagline \u201cNo one has to do everything, but everyone has to do something,\u201d the initiative \u201cwill be an incredible asset to the EMU community as we stand together so that fewer people are hurt by power-based personal violence,\u201d said Jonathan Swartz<\/strong><\/a>, director of residence life, student accountability and restorative justice and Green Dot training facilitator. The Green Dot facilitator team include other leaders in the Student Life team led by grant coordinator Leda Werner<\/strong><\/a> and Jess Balac<\/strong> of the Collins Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The program trains community members to act so that red dots \u2013 marks on a map indicating instances of power-based personal violence such as controlling behavior, threats or sexual assault \u2013 are far outnumbered by green dots. Including both reactive and proactive bystander interventions, green dots indicate actions such as defusing a situation through distraction, showing concern for someone who is being harmed, or asking someone who is causing harm to move away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barriers to intervening can be \u201canything from feeling unsafe to not knowing the full context to being concerned about damaging a friendship,\u201d said Werner. \u201cThinking ahead of time about the ways in which we do feel comfortable intervening helps us to feel more confident to take action when we witness a situation unfolding in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the training, a majority of community advisors (CAs) and pastoral assistants shared that they personally experienced or knew someone who had experienced power-based personal violence, said Addison Hawpe<\/strong>. As a CA, she lives in a residence hall and provides support and leadership to other students, and helps build community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all have times in our past where we wish we would have stood up, and wish we would have done more,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter this training, I have some more tactics \u2013 \u2018direct, distract and delegate\u2019 \u2013 and ways to be an active bystander. I can definitely pass these on to the residents on my hall as ways that they can be active bystanders, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The training further challenged CAs to create \u201cgreen areas where red dots don\u2019t even have a chance to come,\u201d said Hawpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the main goals of a CA is to create that green zone in our spaces,\u201d said CA Theo Yoder<\/strong>. Green Dot t-shirts, stickers and conversation points will cultivate awareness and help \u201cmake it clear that domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking are just unacceptable,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt takes a collective effort by all of us to ensure that our campus is safe,\u201d said Werner, who manages a multi-year grant EMU received through the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women<\/a> (OVW) to combat sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2006 at the University of Kentucky, Alteristic<\/a>\u2019s Green Dot curriculum has been used at nearly 800 schools (including at neighboring James Madison University<\/a>), entities such as the U.S. Department of Justice, Oregon Tradeswomen and Bangor Savings Bank, as well as internationally, according to its website.
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