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Get Involved with Student Wellness!

Have you been wondering how you can get involved to make our world a better place for future generations? Or maybe you just want to make UP a safer place for students, faculty, and staff to live, learn and work. We’ve got a few ideas for you!

  • Join the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Taskforce. This is a team of faculty, staff, and students that will meet 2 times each semester to discuss community concerns, create violence prevention curriculum, identify necessary interventions, and create avenues for enacting them across campus.
    • Our first meeting is on Monday, December 16 at 11:45 am-12:45 pm in Lower Level Orrico. Tea, cocoa and cookies will be provided.
  • Attend an upcoming Green Dot Faculty/Staff Overview to learn bystander intervention skills and be better prepared to do something when you see the warning signs of interpersonal violence.
    • Thursday, December 12 at 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
    • Monday, December 16 at 10:30-11:45 am
      • Both trainings will be held in Lower Level Orrico. Tea, cocoa and cookies will be provided. Email Erin Currie to let us know you will be joining us, or to request a more in-depth Bystander training or a Student Green Dot refresher.

Want to explore all of the support opportunities we offer? Learn about all of our Student Wellness Initiatives and how you can get involved.

Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee Survey

Do you want to contribute to efforts to create a campus culture of non-violence? At UP there are multiple avenues for contributions and multiple contribution levels to meet your skills, interests, and availability. 

Perhaps you have you been a member of the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee or Title IX Committee in the past, but your availability has changed? 

The Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee needs to plan our initiatives for next year, as well as multi-year initiatives. It would help us to know who our campus community partners are and what they think about possible future initiatives.

Please take this survey to let us know your interest(s) and availability in working with us to make UP a safe place to live, learn, and work.

Take The Survey

Green Dot Community Training Series (Mar. 20-Apr. 10)

In a fit of March Madness, we are offering Green Dot Community Training for students, staff, and faculty. We will offer (4) 75-minute training sessions that employ a modified bystander training approach, with an emphasis on learning activities for violence prevention skills, use, and collaboration. These are drop-in training courses, so it’s okay if you can’t make it to all of them.

Session Dates

March 20: An overview of violence warning signs and actions to stop them before someone is harmed.

March 27: Activities to build skills in recognizing the warning signs of violence and understanding what might stop us from acting.

April 3: Activities to build skills for stopping violence when we’ve seen the warning signs and for promoting a safe campus community.

April 10: In collaboration with Active Minds, we are offering the opportunity to try out the skills we’ve been learning using common campus scenarios.

Where: Lower Level Orrico

When: 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Who: You

Please email greendot@up.edu with any questions.

Green Dot Faculty & Staff Overview (Jan. 26)

Please join us for a Professional Development opportunity focused on contributing to a safe and healthy campus for all. The Green Dot Faculty and Staff Overview (70-minute training) focuses on addressing issues related to gender and sexual violence on campus. It can help you think through the words and actions you can use to address situations that have historically been unmentionable. We will also address the ways the information and skills in the training are transferrable to many interpersonal concerns. 

  • Friday, January 26, from 2:00-3:10 p.m., in Lower Level Orrico; coffee and cocoa will be provided.

Please email greendot@up.edu and to let us know if you plan to attend or if you have any questions.

Green Dot Facilitator Training (Aug 8.–11)

The Wellness Center and Campus Ministry have secured funding to revitalize the Green Dot program here at UP! The Wellness Center is hosting a Green Dot facilitator training here at UP on August 8–11. We hope to have individuals from as many departments as possible attend the training and be Green Dot facilitators so we can efficiently work together to implement the program across campus. The training will be for 50 people, and currently, there are 35 slots available. Check out a promo video with James Pena and Brenagh Sanford about Green Dot here. 

Contact Greg Peterson at petersgr@up.edu if you have questions or want to register! 

Wellness Education & Prevention Training Available to the UP Community!

The Wellness Education & Prevention team has created a new online form for UP staff, faculty, and students to request Wellness training. Available trainings:  

  • Jed Foundation’s “You Can Help a Student” 
  • Jed Foundation’s “You Can Help a Friend” 
  • Green Dot 
  • General overview of wellness and counseling services on campus 

This form will be open year-round for submissions. Follow the link to request to schedule a future training for yourself, your classroom, team, office, or student group! 

For more information or questions, please contact the Wellness Center at wellness@up.edu. 

Invitation to Join the Interpersonal Violence Prevention (IVP) Advisory Committee

Our first meeting of this academic year will be on Wednesday, November 30, from 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. in the lower level of Orrico Hall. One of the topics will be the plan to broaden the mission of the committee to include an advisory role to campus violence prevention efforts. To align with this expanded role, the name of the committee will change from the Title IX Advisory Committee to the Interpersonal Violence Prevention (IVP) Advisory Committee. The University recently created two new leadership positions to lead these efforts: Ethan Snyder, our new Title IX Coordinator, and Greg Peterson, our new Director of Student Wellness overseeing the prevention of campus violence . Both Ethan and Greg joined the UP Community this summer.  

The advisory committee plans to meet monthly, on the last Wednesday of each month (January to April 2023). Contact Tammy Herdener or the Office of Student Affairs with any questions. 

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

We all want to help when we see someone in trouble, but how can we increase the likelihood that we actually do?

REACTIVE GREEN DOTS: BEING AN ACTIVE BYSTANDER AND INTERVENING IN SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE

Don’t forget your 3 D’s:

  • Direct.
  • Distract. Watch this creative example of a Distract!
  • Delegate. 

PROACTIVE GREEN DOTS: ESTABLISHING NEW NORMS

  • Wear and sport Green Dot swag and stickers–backpack, jacket, laptop, water bottle. 
  • Find ways to bring Green Dot into your clubs, classes, or residence hall. 
  • Hang up a Green Dot poster.
  • Add Green Dot to your email signature or social media bio. For example: 
    • Ask me about Green Dot!
    • No one has to do everything. Everyone has to do something. What’s your Green Dot?

About Green Dot: Green Dot is an interpersonal violence prevention and bystander intervention training program. Green Dot provides opportunities for skill building to intervene in situations at high-risk for violence. Participants are also trained to engage in proactive behaviors and shift campus norms to be incompatible with violence. Learn more about Green Dot.

Faculty & Staff Green Dot Training: Wednesday, June 12

All faculty and staff members are invited to attend Green Dot Training on Wednesday, June 12. Training will be hosted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bauccio Commons Terrace Room. This training will introduce basic elements of Green Dot, focusing specifically on the vital role university employees play in establishing and reinforcing the culture that students and colleagues exist within. This training is designed to help employees understand the expanded definition of “bystander” and to equip all University employees to integrate within their current job functions key behaviors that establish two norms: (1) power-based personal violence won’t be tolerated, (2) everyone does their part to keep the UP community free from violence and fear of violence.

Please register by contacting Megan Cohara at coharam@up.edu or x8125.

Faculty & Staff Green Dot Training, June 12

All faculty and staff are invited to join the Health and Counseling Center for Green Dot Training on Wednesday, June 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Terrace Room. This training will introduce the basic elements of Green Dot, focusing specifically on the vital role University employees play in establishing and reinforcing the culture that students and colleagues exist within. This training is designed to help employees understand the expanded definition of “bystander” and to equip all employees to integrate their jobs with key behaviors that establish two norms: (1) power-based personal violence won’t be tolerated, (2) everyone does their part to keep the UP community free from violence and fear of violence.

Please register by contacting Megan Cohara, Health and Counseling Center, at coharam@up.edu or x8125.