In an effort to reduce sexual misconduct, the University of Rochester utilizes a range of campaigns, strategies, and initiatives to promote awareness, education, harm reduction, and skill-building through prevention programming and training.
The University requires sexual misconduct prevention training as part of its commitment to a healthy and respectful campus community. Mandatory trainings covering Title IX topics are required for all students, faculty, and staff during the onboarding process.
The team at the Title IX Office, student leaders, and other community members lead interactive outreach efforts throughout the year to help educate the University community on prevention, creating consent culture, being a BADASS Bystander, how to support friends, understanding the University’s Policies on sexual misconduct and Title IX, and related topics. Our Prevention and Education Staff trains over 12,000 students and over 35,000 employees annually!
The Title IX Prevention and Education team welcomes and encourages student and employee involvement in our prevention and awareness work on campus! There are many ways to create consent culture on your own, or let us share our expertise with you by:
Additionally, the University regularly invites partners from organizations with expertise on these topics to lead educational programming. Programs have included Take Back the Night, workshops, film screenings, The Clothesline Project, Walk a Mile, It’s On Us National Pledge Day, Medallion Leadership Program classes, information tables, and more!
Follow the Title IX office on Campus Community Connection to see our upcoming calendar of events!
The Title IX Office offers educational programming for student groups, departments, and organizations upon request. We offer annual, just-in-time, proactive, and reactive educational trainings. You may select from one of the signature programs we currently offer, or let us know more about your training needs when you complete the training form below.
Revisit and expand on your sexual misconduct training from your first year by discussing how you can be leaders in preventing sexual assault and promoting a safe, consent-focused environment for yourself, your friends, and your community. It’s on all of us to prevent sexual misconduct at the University and wherever our journey in life takes us.
Duration: 1 hour
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid, and group discussion.
Take the extra step to empower and protect yourself, friends, and community members by becoming a BADASS Bystander! Utilizing role-plays, participants will be observing a potentially harmful situation, and rather than being passive bystanders, they will utilize skills to be active bystanders who take action to interrupt harm and generate positive actions by others. This program will help participants gain crucial skills to take action and start an effective conversation to address and prevent instances of sexual misconduct.
Being BADASS means Being Aware, Deciding to Act, and Saying Something!
Duration: 2.5 hours
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid, videos, interactive role plays involving participants, and group discussion.
This program is an overview of Title IX, defining prohibited behavior as listed in the University Title IX Policy, and reporting options. This is a great introduction to what the Title IX process is like and what the expectations are for our community.
Duration: 1 hour
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid.
Stop by our monthly Lunch & Learns during the academic year, where we feed you and teach you about a variety of topics, including safer partying, practicing consent, creating healthy relationships, and setting and respecting boundaries. We gladly welcome co-sponsorships!
To see our upcoming Lunch & Learns, visit our Campus Community Connection page.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid, and group discussion.
As part of our commitment to risk-reduction education, we recognize that safe(r) partying using harm reduction education and resources is best utilized when they are embedded in the party scene/culture. The Safe(r) Partying Workshop is intended to encourage harm reduction practices through increased awareness of effective bystander intervention and consent-based strategies within the party setting to keep our community collectively safe(r).
We highly recommend this training for all Greek Life organizations, or others that may have alcohol present at events during the academic year.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid, and group discussion.
Gather your friends together for a fun and educational sexual misconduct jeopardy game! Tell us the categories Ken Jennings! – Yes means Yes, Bye Bye Bystander, Hashtags#, Myth or Fact, Show Me the Numbers and Title IX Galore. This is a fully immersive Jeopardy experience and is a fun way to test your basic knowledge and engage a group.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Style: Interactive and immersive Jeopardy program.
This training will meet the requirements for all employees, staff, and faculty of the University who are a Mandatory Reporter. This includes student-employees in Residential Life and all student-employees with a responsibility for teaching and advising.
Whether you are a new hire or your Department needs annual training on mandatory reporting obligations and steps to take, this training will cover those requirements.
Duration: 1 hour
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid.
Are you faculty or an instructor who can’t make it to class and are considering canceling it?
Don’t Cancel That Class! As an alternative to canceling class, let the Title IX Office present to your students and take advantage of your valuable class time!
Request a Don’t Cancel That Class! Session
Duration: 1 hour (or subject to length of your typical class)
Style: PowerPoint lecture with audio/visual aid.
The Prevention Education Team is dedicated to providing training and education tailored to fit the needs of the University community as it relates to sexual misconduct prevention topics. If you have a training or program request that falls outside of what is predefined above, please provide further detail by submitting a training request below and we will contact you to further discuss your request.
As I look ahead, these skills feel less like course content and more like life infrastructure. Ultimately, the course did not hand me a map; it taught me to build one.
The RA’s were so appreciative of your presentation and expertise; they found your presentation super valuable and feel more confident in responding to incidents. And I personally thank you for helping make this semester’s training a great success!
From a personal growth perspective, I really look at this course as a self-reorganization, because it really changed a lot of my views on relationships. I have gained so much new knowledge about relationships, and most importantly, I changed the way I think about relationships.
The BADASS Bystander course was AMAZING! I genuinely loved every second of it (and I usually lose focus during these presentations, too). The information that was provided was SO essential to everybody, but it is rarely taught in schools. I left feeling like I really learned skills to intervene.
The training Title IX provided to our org was really illuminating and has benefited us greatly. We just wanted to write to you and thank you.
If you disclose a situation through a public awareness event such as “Take Back the Night”, candlelight vigils, protests, student organization or other event or forum, or other public events, the University is not obligated to begin an investigation. The University may use the information you provided to inform the need for additional education and prevention efforts.
We love sharing all the great work we’ve done to provide prevention efforts directly to our community. Check out some of our signature programming in action! If you’d like to get involved in our prevention efforts, please reach out to our team.
