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

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Hi all,

 

Is your May taking place in a galaxy further away then you could have ever imagined?

 

Your friends at SUNY want to offer you an assist as you plan ahead with tighter and tighter budgets. Our commitment to preventing sexual and interpersonal violence has not gone away. This may be the time to consider transitioning to SPARC and TRAC as your way to provide education to incoming students.

 

What are SPARC and TRAC? These are free, customizable online trainings jointly developed by SUNY and CUNY and provided to higher education institutions at absolutely no charge. SPARC (Sexual and interpersonal violence Prevention And Response Course) is aimed at upstream violence prevention while TRAC (Training in Reducing Alcohol Consumption), a separate program, offers students a harm reduction focused approach to understanding how alcohol affects their physical body and campus social experience. Since they were released, hundreds of colleges across the US and Canada have downloaded and customized the program and it is in use at institutions that educate millions of students.

 

If your school doesn’t have tens of thousands of dollars to devote to online training, SPARC and TRAC are worth considering. SPARC and TRAC offer you a heavy lift by providing you a template to follow and are completely customizable and feature your students, staff, and leadership (not some actors or voice artists), and are hosted on your institution’s LMS (we don’t ever see your data, the program and all data remain securely on your own servers).

 

Now with COVID-19 adding additional financial pressure to all institutions (including ours), we’d like to offer you a little extra help. Last year we released SPARC 2.0 and with it a 125 page implementation guide to assist you through the process. This year we’d like to help further by offering a weekly class to further elaborate on how to launch your own version of SPARC (and/or TRAC).

 

Rebecca Harrington, LEAD Developer of SPARC and TRAC and Health Educator at SUNY Oneonta and Lisa Campo, SUNY Paralegal and Manager of the SPARC registration system will be offering this weekly course, Tuesdays at 3pm beginning May 12. Each week will tackle one chapter of the implementation manual and teach you the tech skills you will need to customize your own SPARC and TRAC. Oh, and as you might have guessed, we aren’t charging for this weekly series either.

 

Please register here:

Occurs every Tuesday effective Tuesday, May 12, 2020 until Tuesday, July 21, 2020 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST

 

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In the past you may have thought that you didn’t have the time to take on this challenge, but maybe now (or this summer) is the right time. You can have high quality online prevention training (which is really only a part of a good prevention campaign), and return some precious funds to address more pressing student health and safety challenges.

 

On this 5/4, May the Fourth Be With You. Stop waiting for a cosmic hero, and come to the SPARC side. Hope you enjoy this fun video.

 

Sincerely,

Rebecca Harrington and the SPARC/TRAC team at The State University of New York