Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Pleasants, Robert" <>]

I think Green Dot has strengths we can learn from, especially around messaging.  That said, I’d like to offer a few things you may want to be aware of in thinking about committing to the Green Dot training:

 

-Their training is not a train-the-trainer session. This can be limiting for capacity building on college campuses as they require all facilitators to be trained via the 4-day training. Not only is this expensive, but if you’re doing peer education, students graduate…

-They do not allow you to combine your own materials with the Green Dot curriculum, which was a problem for us in that we wanted to create a program specific to our university.

 

For what it’s worth, we found the Bringing in the Bystander curriculum to be as good or better for our campus, and we appreciated their willingness for us to adapt it and use it as we see fit.  Over the last year, we’ve created a program called One Act here at UNC Chapel Hill that has taken off on our campus. Our process evals have been great and we’re seeing a high demand for the program; we’re now taking the steps to do both short-term and longer-term outcome evaluation of the program.  I think one key to our success has been working with students last summer to review national curricula and have them decide what aspects of each would work best on campus; we then did some buzz marketing in the fall, piloted and improved over the fall semester, and are rolling along this spring (barely able to fill the demand!).  We’re doing peer/professional hybrid, and we found our peer educators really bought in through the process of curriculum creation. 

 

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robert Pleasants
Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator
Counseling and Wellness Services
Campus Health Services

CB# 7470 James A. Taylor Bldg.

UNC-Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7470

 

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information.  Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.  If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

 

From: Marie Attis [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:03 PM
To:
Subject:

 

Hello All,

 

Are any of you using Green dot as your methodology to promote bystander intervention on your campuses?  If so, how has it been working out for you?  Do you believe it is worth the 40hr training?

 

Marie-Danielle Attis, MPA

Coordinator of Health Promotion and Sexual Assault Services

Rutgers The State University- Newark Health Services

249 University Ave room 203/219

Newark, NJ 07102

Tel: (973) 353-1256  Fax: (973)353-1390

 

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

--Robert F. Kennedy