IT HAPPENS

WITH ANYONE IT HAPPENS

IT HAPPENS TO ANYONE
UNEXPECTEDLY
IT HAPPENS
IT HAPPENS ANYTIME ITANYWHERE
HAPPENS
WITHOUT REASON
 What should be
done to decrease the
number of rape cases
among students at
URI?

Alicia Cowern, Collin Simmons, Sydney DeMartino, Tyler Lavalley

What is Rape?
Rape is sex where both parties do not
verbally and soberly agree, including
forcing a body part or object into your
vagina, rectum (bottom), or mouth.
 Cause

Lack of Support
Lack of Awareness
CAUSES Fear of Retaliation
 Unreported incidents
Accountability
Effects Psychological
FRESHMAN ARE AT THE HIGHEST RISK OF
BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AS
COMPARED TO OTHER COLLEGE
POPULATIONS
 Requirements for Good Solutions
Raise awareness Spring 2020

Dialogue

Leaders Semesterly
 Required Course
Training Cost?
Every semester
Credit?
Mandatory to graduate
Environment for Dialogue Length?
 Prevention Intervention Network
Goshen College, Indiana
25 hours of training Prosocial bystanders Peer-led program
Empowerment Weekly meetings Student Allies
 Cheap
Efficient

Larger Scope of
Reach
 “Traditional prevention programs may only approach men as potential
perpetrators and women as potential victims. Green Dot approaches all
students, staff, administrators, and faculty as allies. The original Green Dot
program was conceived in the college setting to prevent dating violence,
sexual violence, and stalking. It relies on the premise that if everyone does “Progress is measured by our individual choices to intervene.
Progress is measured by laws revised and norms shifted. Progress
their small part and commits to individual responsibility, the combined
is measured by rigorous research that assesses impact, acts of
effect is a safe campus culture that is intolerant of violence. The violence that are never committed, countless voices that advocate
college-based curriculum draws heavily on the experiences of college for change, and thousands of individuals empowered to engage in
students and the reality of this issue in their lives. This curriculum uses transformational daily actions. Progress is measured by lives lived
interactive activities to reinforce core concepts and encourages students to to their fullest potential—and by hope.”
envision their future and the world in which they want to live, then aligns
their bystander behavior with that vision.”