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Interpersonal Violence Prevention (IVP)

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The IVP program is a primary prevention program aimed at preventing dating violence, domestic violence, sexual violence and stalking. All programming is informed by best practices and is inclusive, culturally relevant and responsive to the ������������ campus community. 

The IVP Program provides a variety of prevention education to students utilizing a peer education model. This is done through a peer education model through the 20:1 Prevention Program internship.

20:1 Program addresses a wide range of areas of interpersonal violence that is prevalent on college campuses, offering education on a variety of topics around interpersonal violence prevention. 20:1 is highly collaborative partnering with on- and off-campus groups and organizations. 

20:1 Internship

Peer educators are trained to provide sexual violence prevention education to various campus constituants.  Programming  focuses on both interpersonal violence and bystander intervention training. Students intersted in an internship should visit the 20:1 Prevention Program Internship page.

IVP Workshops

• 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, preditory 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 and follow 2.

Annual 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.
  • Black represents those attacked for political reasons.
  • Blue represents survivors of incest or childhood sexual abuse.
  • Pink represents survivors of rape or sexual violence.
  • Purple represents those attacked due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • White represents those who have died as a result of violence.
  • Yellow represents survivors of physical violence or domestic 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).  ������������ 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 violenceed.
• 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.