Violence Prevention Education
PARC's team of Violence Prevention Educators and professional staff work together to engage the campus community in a variety of conversations to help stop and prevent violence. Much of this education focuses around Bystander Intervention, which is a primary prevention strategy that encourages a community response to instances of potential or actualized harm, learning to ask ourselves what we can do in a moment to intervene safely to change situations that could escalate to violence.
Currently, we offer a few different versions of Bystander Training designed to build skills over time. We also offer a few other trainings on related topics. PARC is always excited to collaborate with you to create a custom training for your needs, too! Below you can explore the trainings we offer, sign up for an open training, and/or request a training.
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Training for Students (Both Undergraduate and Graduate)
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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 will 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 & Boundary-Setting
- Power-sharing & Consent
- Predictability and Reliability
- Emotion
- Facilitate Self-Preservation
Lastly we will 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 that 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 workshop 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 in order to practice the skills learned throughout the workshop.
This workshop is recommended for student groups/clubs but can also be attended individually.
This 60-minute training, presented by the Office of Graduate Affairs (OGA) and PARC, will address how to build a supportive community and offer best practices in supporting students who disclose experiences of violence or are in distress. Together we will build skills, discuss resources, and practice with scenarios.
This session is required for all Teaching Assistants, Course Assistants, and some other student leadership and mentorship positions. Register here.
Training for Faculty and Staff
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This training focuses on strategies for professional staff and faculty to intervene when witnessing potential or actualized violence. We will 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. RSVP here.
Other Training Around Violence Prevention
- Incoming first year students are required to complete an online training related to violence prevention and understanding substance use before arriving on campus. Students will receive email communication about this training, What Would Brandeis Do? in the month prior to their start date.
- New Student Orientation for undergraduates and graduates features presentations from the PARC and the Office of Equal Opportunity on policies, how to report, bystander intervention, consent, and more.
- The Office of Equal Opportunity in collaboration with PARC also provides information at New Employee Orientation and New Faculty Orientation, as well as a workshop for employees on Title IX, Title VII, ADA, and more.
- Our friends in the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and the Gender and Sexuality Center offer incredible trainings as well! Contact them to learn more.