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

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We use Student Success for alcohol and sexual assault (it includes dating violence as well).  They work with us on placing the holds by providing a “drop” each night with our system to place and remove holds as the students complete the tutorials.  They also work hard to customize what we need. For example, our students were having a problem with inputting their student ID numbers correctly.  So Student Success limited the field as to what they could put in.  Their customer service is awesome and the data reports we get are great.  I use them for assessment all the time. 

There are definitely problems getting students to take the tutorial and a certain amount of work is always involved on my part.  But we also have a large university—28.000 students and approximately 7,000 incoming in the Fall semester alone. 

We have had some nice peripheral outcomes as well.  This semester alone we have set up three students for counseling services (due to other problems going on in their lives) who normally would not have thought to seek help.  We have had some nice peer accountability.  For example, someone was complaining on Facebook about the system crashing and not being able to complete the tutorial (it was literally minutes before the hold deadline) and other peers wrote back things like “Dude, you’ve had since August to do the tutorials.  They gave it to us literally months ago.  Why are you waiting til the last minute?” 

So, although there is some management on our part, and it can be a difficult sell to administrators, the work is worth it from my perspective.  And Student Success has been very accommodating.

Jessica

 

 

Jessica Heskin, M.A.

Violence and Sexual Assault Support Services

Student Health and Counseling Services

(916) 278-3799

www.csus.edu/shcs

 

 

 

From: Seguin, Angela DiNunzio [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:25 AM
To: Tom Schiff;
Subject: RE: Online bystander intervention programs

 

We have been using Alcohol.Edu for several years now and last year we opted to stick with it as a way to also educate our incoming students about sexual assault, dating violence and bystander intervention because the folks at Everfi enhanced the “Haven” section (module 2 – there are 3 modules to the course) to include these topics.  We also chose to stick with it because it provides us with data that is comparable year to year on students’ behavior as well as data on the effectiveness of Alcohol.Edu on our campus.

 

Since we are a larger school – 21,000+ and 17,000 of them are undergrads – it is challenging to find ways of holding more intimate discussions or interactive programs that reach ALL the students.  At least we know all students (age 25 & under) MUST complete Alcohol.Edu or a hold is placed on their account and they cannot register for Spring classes until they complete the program.  This accountability piece works.

 

Nevertheless, it seems there are a few new products on the market right now, so we are also reviewing what’s out there to determine what might work best and be affordable to use on our campus.  So I’d love to hear other responses about what other campuses have found to be effective.

 

Angela

 

Angela DiNunzio Seguin

Project Director, UD-DSU Violence Against Women Act Grant

Coordinator, Sexual Offense Support

Student Wellness & Health Promotion

University of Delaware

(302) 831-3457

http://www.udel.edu/studentwellness

 

From: Tom Schiff []
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:26 AM
To:
Subject: Online bystander intervention programs

 

Hi All,

 

I am wondering which products folk are using, and what you see as the pro and cons of them.

 

I apologize for any cross posting.

 

Tom Schiff, Ed.D.

Interim Lead

Health Promotion

Center for Health Promotion

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003

413-577-5133

 

“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire” - William Butler Yeats

 

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