Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center

Our flagship training, Level One introduces the roots of violence and teach ways to intervene using the 5 D's Framework:

• Direct
• Distract
• Distance
• Delegate
• Document

We recommend this training for all students who haven't received a training from PARC yet. It expands upon ideas introduced during orientation and in the online "What Would Brandeis Do?" training for undergraduate students.

This training focuses on strategies for supporting someone if they tell you they've experienced violence. We discuss the roots of victim-blaming and barriers to sharing and/or reporting, as well as information and techniques for connecting them to appropriate resources. Lastly, we'll suggest what to do — and what not to do — when someone shares that they have experienced violence. "Supporting Those Impacted by Violence" can be customized for your group, whether you are student leaders, TAs, faculty or staff. 

This training delves deeper into the forms of covert violence that we may participate in unknowingly. Together we will explore how to intervene through either “Calling Out” or “Calling In.” Lastly, we will discuss holding ourselves accountable when we cause harm, how to apologize and moving forward.

How can we expand our anti-violence work to all facets of our lives? This training builds on the skills for in-the-moment intervention and response discussed in levels 1-3 and refocuses to bringing trauma-informed practices to our daily interactions. We focus on the 5 TIPs (trauma-informed practices):

• Transparency and boundary-setting
• Power-sharing and consent
• Predictability and reliability
• Emotion
• Facilitate self-preservation

Lastly, we discuss vicarious trauma and strategies for self-preservation.

This training is for everyone! It is especially helpful for those in positions of leadership or any person who others come to for help or support. We also encourage groups to attend this training together.

This highly interactive training revolves around what we each want from our relationships with other people, including but not limited to friendships, romantic relationships and sexual relationships. Through conversations about communication skills, respecting boundaries and red flags, we grapple with these topics in a practical and applicable way.

The Safe(r) Party and Event Toolkit is an interactive workshop designed to provide tools and skills for planning the safest events possible. It aims to encourage a social environment where safety is prioritized and violence is considered unacceptable. The toolkit provides examples of what violence can look like in social settings and how to prevent and/or disrupt possible situations of violence that arise.

The workshop ends with participants planning their own social event to practice the skills learned throughout the workshop.

This workshop is recommended for student groups/clubs but can also be attended individually.

Consent Conversations is a 60-minute interactive workshop designed to give attendees a clearer understanding of the importance of consent in romantic and sexual relationships. This presentation works to broaden our understanding of consent as something that should be natural, normalized, and integral to romantic daily life. We discuss ways to seek and give consent that feel realistic and respectful.

This workshop is recommended for student groups/clubs but can also be attended individually.

This training focuses on strategies for professional staff and faculty to intervene when witnessing potential or actualized violence. We also discuss how to best support someone if they tell you they've experienced violence, tools for rejecting and counteracting harmful victim-blaming myths, and information to empower you to connect them to appropriate resources.

This session is offered as part of the ODEI, OEO and PARC collaborative series: "Doing Better at Brandeis: Understanding & Addressing Violence, Discrimination and Implicit Bias in Our Community."