Activating Our Campus 2017 Breakout Sessions View Other Sessions

Bringing national campaigns to a college campus can seem daunting, especially if it is the first time your organization is trying this. There are many questions to consider, from selecting the right campaign to fit your campus, to redesigning it for your student population. This session will focus on preparing attendees to turn national campaigns into appealing events for their student body. There will be a focus on proper advertisement, comparing advertisements that worked well with those that did not. There will also be a discussion on budgets and funding, and finding ways to make bringing a national campaign to campus as cost efficient as possible. Attendees will leave with an increased understanding of how to redesign a national campaign for a college campus. They will be able to create advertisements that grab students’ attention and result in higher turn out, and they will also be able to trim the costs of campaigns by designing the program to fit their campus. Finally, they will leave with some constructive ground work laid out for them to bring a campaign to their campus.

We will be facilitating a discussion based workshop on sexual assault in relationship violence in trans communities. Some of the things we will discuss include racial bias, workplace discrimination, educational institutions, and intimate partner violence in the context of gender and gender non-conformity. We will also cover a general trans vocab list. This presentation will be followed with several discussion questions focusing on the trans community, and what we can do to end sexual assault and relationship violence.

This breakout session will discuss the social determinants of sexual assault, with an emphasis on communities of color on college campuses. We will discuss the need for these populations to be centered when developing interventions, and provide a framework students can use to: (1) asses community needs (2) become critical of interventions and (3) brainstorm ways they can contribute to empower communities and optimize interventions

This breakout session will talk about the function of Title IX on campus. We will give a brief description of the Clery Act and the Violence Against Women Act. We will focus on how this Intersects with DACA (students who are here with research funding, undocumented students). We will discuss this policy, and things we can do as an institution to support affected students without putting targets on their backs. This presentation will include a discussion and an interactive activity to start conversations and collaboration about how to serve students from these populations.