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Bystander intervention is an evidence-based practice that can prevent violence, de-escalate, and build a culture of consent, empathy, and accountability. Learn about what it means to be an active bystander, why individuals should intervene, how to practice community accountability, and how intervening can impact our culture. In this workshop, you’ll also practice using the 5 Ds to actively Delegate, Distract, Directly address, Delay (check in afterward), and Document instances of harm as a bystander.

What does CARE do? What services are available? How can advocates help? Who can be supported by CARE? What is confidentiality? What is prevention education? This presentation answers all these questions and provides guidance on how you can support someone who has shared that they’ve experienced or are experiencing harm. This presentation can serve as a comprehensive introduction to CARE’s services, especially for RAs, orientation leaders, club or org leadership, TAs, faculty, and staff who share resources and information with students and the larger UCSC community.

Consent is present in all relationships, interactions, and situations. This workshop invites you to examine what consent looks, sounds, and feels like to you within your relationships and communities. Participants will develop a shared definition of consent, learn about verbal and nonverbal communication of consent, reflect upon our various cultures’ influence on consent, practice proactive skills, and more. Let’s build a culture of consent together!

This workshop invites participants to examine gender roles, gender-based violence, narratives promoted by society, and ways to break out of limiting gender boxes. Through a hands-on, collective activity, participants will reflect and discuss: What does it mean to be a man, a woman, neither, or both? What does it mean to step out of gender boxes? How can we challenge, expand, and transform gendered norms and expectations?

This workshop delves into relationships—how we can practice healthy relationships and how unhealthy and abusive relationships may manifest. Participants are invited to empathetically communicate with partners and other people in their lives, be conscious of relationship dynamics, and consider how to foster healthy relationships in their communities. Learnings from this workshop can be applied to the benefit of all our relationships (friends, classmates, coworkers, etc.), not just romantic or sexual relationships! 

What does it mean to be survivor-centered and trauma-informed? In this workshop, participants will learn about trauma responses, active listening, and acting as a support person. We recommend requesting this workshop after you’ve received a different presentation from us, and to let us know if you serve or belong to a particular community on campus so we can tailor practice scenarios and discussion questions to your community’s needs.