| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 73.80 |
| Liaison | Pamela Mischen |
| Submission Date | March 2, 2023 |
Binghamton University
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.73 / 4.00 |
Johann
Fiore-Conte Associate VP Student Affairs |
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Healthy Campus Peer Agents work to enhance the health of Binghamton University students through a variety of evidence-based health promotion initiatives. Peer Agents promote greater well-being by working with peers to increase awareness of wellness resources on campus, provide support, and encourage responsible decision-making.
Peer Agents are role models and liaisons that connect their peers to health and wellness resources on and off campus. Peer Agents focus on the following wellness topics:
• Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other drugs
• Mental health
• Sexual health
• General health education
As a part of the internship, the Healthy Campus Peer Agents are also required to enroll in and attend a 2-hour-per-semester CDCI course (4 hours per year). This class meets 1 hour on Mondays and 1 hour on Wednesdays (14 total weeks).
At the beginning of the fall semester, interns undergo two days of intensive training that includes training on programs that they will be expected to conduct beginning the week classes begin. Examples of peer-to-peer education include presentations, tabling, and the use of social media and traditional media (posters, emails) to conduct awareness and prevention activities.
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The primary audience is on- and off-campus college students at Binghamton University.
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The 20:1 Prevention Program trains peer educators to provide interpersonal violence and sexual violence prevention education to various campus constituents. Programming focuses on both interpersonal violence prevention and bystander intervention training.
The IVP program through the Dean of Students Office is a primary prevention program aimed at preventing dating violence, domestic violence, sexual violence and stalking. All programming is informed by best practices, is culturally relevant and responsive to the Binghamton campus community.
The IVP Program provides a variety of prevention education to students utilizing a peer education model. This is done through the 20:1 Prevention Program internship in which students attend a weekly seminar class to be trained in prevention program, practice and improve presentation skills and gain a deeper knowledge regarding interpersonal violence topics.
The 20:1 Program addresses a wide range of areas of interpersonal violence that is prevalent on college campuses, offering education on a on topics including: sexual consent focusing on incapacitation and coercion, victim blaming, predatory behavior, dating violence, healthy relationships and bystander intervention. The 20:1 interns are trained to facilitate discussion and utilize interactive activities to deepen the conversation and enhance learning for the participants. Programming is offered through presentations that are discussion based with interactive activities and relevant scenarios.
Binghamton University undergraduate students who participate in the 20:1 internship program earn 2-credits per semester.
The name "20:1" represents a national statistic from 2004, when the internship was founded. In 1 hour, approximately 20 women were sexually violated in the United States.
Examples of Programs Offered:
Bystander Intervention Program: Students learn how to safely intervene when confronted by a variety of interpersonal violence issues.
The Bystander Intervention education functions as a forum for students to learn about sexual violence prevention, domestic violence, hate crimes/bullying, hazing and other incidents of potential situations of interpersonal violence where there might be opportunity for bystander intervention. A critical part focuses on what influences the decision making process as it relates to student's individual experiences and perspectives. The program utilizes an interactive format with the fundamental purpose of engaging the audiences in meaningful dialogue.
Consent Program: In this program, students learn about affirmative consent, how to obtain consent and why consent is important. Students also learn about incapacitation and coercion, the two most prevalent forms of violence on college campuses. Through the use of interactive activities, topics such as affirmative consent, victim blaming, predatory behavior and rape myths are addressed.
Bystander Intervention Program focusing on healthy and unhealthy relationships: Students are trained in the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This program explores different aspects of dating violence including verbal, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and stalking.
20:1 Talks: Peer educators lead group discussions to engage peers in healthy conversations about current interpersonal violence topics with the goal of changing campus culture.
In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence: In Their Shoes is an interactive program in which participants engage in interpersonal violence scenarios by becoming one of six characters who experience sexting, pregnancy, homophobia and stalking. The program increases understanding of the impact of interpersonal violence and creates empathy.
One Love: Peers facilitate film-based workshops which spotlight on the early warning signs of unhealthy relationships. The Escalation Program is a bystander program using a depiction of dating violence. Behind the Post, examines unhealthy relationship behaviors and the role social media can play.
Tough Guise: After viewing Jackson Katz’s Tough Guise2 film, peers facilitate a discussion on toxic and healthy masculinity.
Men’s and Women’s Programs: These program focus on gender-based violence. The Men’s Program is an empathy building program, bringing men into the conversation of sexual violence, supporting survivors and creating safe spaces. The Women’s Program focuses on victim blaming, predatory behavior, support and resources for victims.
Understanding and Navigating Healthy LGBTQIA+ Relationships: This program examines aspects of unhealthy and healthy relationships that might impact those in the LGBTQIA+ community specifically.
Interactive Tabling and Outreach: This consists of engaging student through a game in order to ask scenario-based questions on interpersonal violence and bystander intervention. This type of programming allows for brief discussions aimed at increasing knowledge for our student body.
Social media: 20:1 utilizes social media as a way to reach students, increasing the dose of messaging. Like 20:1 on Facebook and follow 20:1 on Instagram.
IVP Awareness Events:
Clothesline Project: The University shows support for victims of dating and domestic violence by sponsoring the Clothesline Project. The Clothesline Project is a visual display of violence statistics that often go ignored. Each shirt is made by a survivor of violence or by someone who has lost a loved one to violence. The color of each shirt represents a different type of violence.
Dragon Panel Project: Brings awareness to interpersonal, political and hate violence against women of color. Each panel tells the story of a woman of color who has been a victim while putting a face to their struggle.
#LoveBetter Pop-Up Valentine Store: The One Love Foundation #LoveBetter Campaign includes a pop-up Valentine “store,” which uses traditional Valentine’s gifts (candy hearts, cards and stuffed animals) and shocking messages to accentuate the contrast behaviors associated with unhealthy relationships. The program increases awareness about unhealthy patterns of behavior in relationships.
Paint the Town Purple: Crime Victims Assistance Center (CVAC) sponsored event during Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October). Binghamton University participates by illuminating the Library Tower using purple lights. In addition, The 20:1 Program provides interactive tabling in the community which focuses on increased awareness about affirmative consent and bystander intervention.
What Were You Wearing?: An art installation that provides a tangible response to one of our culture’s most pervasive rape myths by displaying recreated outfits worn when a student-survivor was sexually violenced.
Walk a Mile In Her Shoes: 20:1 partners with TAU fraternity to co-sponsor Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, an award-winning International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual violence & Gender Violence. It is a dramatic opportunity to raise awareness in your community about the serious causes, effects, and remediations to men's sexualized violence.
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At risk groups for sexual assault/IVP (both victimization and perpetration): incoming students, athletes, fraternities, sororities, LGBTQ+. In addition, programming for the general student body is offered, as well as to other student groups by request, i.e. multicultural organizations, intern groups, classes, graduate students.
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