Advanced Organizing & Prevention Education Tactics
The workshops in Tier III are designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of It’s On Us’s advanced or senior peer-educators. Students participating in Tier III workshops should, at a minimum, have completed all of the fundamental workshops in Tier I.
Tier III workshops support students to:
- Distinguish between primary prevention and community-level prevention strategies.
- Identify and break cycles of violence to reduce incidents of campus sexual assault.
- Introduce students to the concept of Restorative Justice as a tool for healing and recidivism prevention.
- Effectively engage with other campus stakeholders, such as administrators, faculty, staff, and other student organizations, to expand the reach of the It’s On Us chapter’s prevention programs.
Community-Level Prevention
This advanced workshop builds on the primary prevention knowledge and skills students have developed through previous programs, and encourages students with advanced peer-education experience to deploy community-level prevention strategies within their campuses.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Distinguish community-level prevention from other types of prevention.
- Identify and map campus partners for community-level prevention initiatives.
- Plan strategies to partner with administrators, faculty, staff, and other student groups on campus.
- Brainstorm community-level prevention goals for future academic semesters.
Breaking Cycles of Violence
This advanced workshop will support student organizers in building upon their already in-place knowledge and skills of sexual violence perpetration and prevention. This workshop addresses the cyclical nature of sexual violence and what can be done to prevent future perpetration of sexual harm.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Recognize the cyclical nature of sexual violence.
- Synthesize tertiary prevention basics within the It’s On Us primary prevention approach.
- Explain the importance of engaging subcommunities who have already caused harm or are high-risk for perpetration.
- Propose strategies for community transformation when sexual harm has been committed.
Organizing and Prevention Strategy
This advanced workshop builds on the organizing fundamentals students have learned from previous programs and expands their knowledge and skills to create new and more advanced prevention strategies for their campus community.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Apply Bloom’s Taxonomy by developing learning outcomes for prevention programming.
- Brainstorm new and creative educational strategies based on desired learning outcomes.
- Generate organizing strategies based on identified demands for campus administrators.
- Practice and deploy organizing strategies, such as canvassing, petitioning, etc.