Abuse is Not Love: Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
It’s On Us has partnered with YSL Beauty to develop a suite of intimate partner violence (IPV)/ dating violence prevention education programs under their global Abuse is Not Love campaign. More information on our partnership can be found on the YSL Beauty Abuse is Not Love website.
Additionally, as part of It’s On Us’s partnership with YSL Beauty, we participated in a global research project on dating violence/IPV with LGBT persons. It’s On Us used this research to develop culturally relevant dating violence/IPV prevention education programs for LGBT college students. These workshops are also found in this program suite.
Tier IV workshops support students to:
- Educate their peers on the signs of abusive relationships.
- Hold workshops or awareness events focused on healthy relationship boundaries and navigating conflict.
- Understand their own limitations to support friends who are experiencing IPV and are considering ending an abusive relationship, and how to effectively direct their friends to professional support services.
Recognizing Signs of an Abusive Relationship
This is the foundational workshop of our Abuse is Not Love program suite, and should be completed prior to students participating in the additional programs. The remainder of the Abuse is Not Love programs and their content builds on the knowledge students gain through participation in this first workshop.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Define intimate partner violence.
- Identify the nine signs of an abusive relationship.
- Identify the 10 signs of a healthy relationship.
- Support friends who may be experiencing intimate partner violence.
Decoding Relationships: Understanding Your Needs and Boundaries for a Healthy Relationship
This workshop expands on the fundamentals of the foundational workshop, and supports students understanding how to strengthen their relationships to establish and respect their partner’s boundaries.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Understand the spectrum of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships.
- Define relationship boundaries.
- Recognize their own relationship boundaries and respect the relationship boundaries of others.
- Understand and build healthy communication and conflict skills.
- Support a friend who is experiencing relationship abuse.
Mastering the Art of Conflict in Relationships: Building Skills to Prevent Abuse
This workshop builds on the knowledge and skills students gained from the first two workshops in the Abuse is Not Love program suite. This program focuses on supporting students’ abilities to healthily navigate conflict to prevent a disagreement or fight from escalating into a pattern of unhealthy or abusive relationship behaviors.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Differentiate between healthy and abusive conflict.
- Identify the “Four Horsemen” of conflict.
- Develop and employ healthy communication strategies and coping mechanisms when conflict arises.
- Support their peers in identifying unhealthy or abusive conflict.
Make Up or Break Up: Supporting Friends Through Ending Relationship
This workshop will equip students to support a friend through ending an unhealthy or abusive relationship, and understand the limitations of what support and guidance they can provide versus when a friend may need professional support.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Understand the relationship balance scale.
- How to have a healthy and safe breakup.
- How to navigate ending a relationship when the relationship has become unhealthy or abusive.
- How to support a friend who is ending an abusive relationship through safety planning and accessing professional support services.
Recognizing and Preventing Abuse in Lesbian and Gay Relationships
This workshop helps students build an understanding how relationship violence manifests differently in lesbian and gay relationships, and how the stigmatization of lesbian and gay relationships can exacerbate barriers to prevention and support for lesbian and gay students. This workshop equips students to facilitate culturally-responsive IPV prevention programming for lesbian and gay students within their campus communities.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Describe the “Gender Unicorn” and define “lesbian” and “gay.”
- Identify the signs of abuse in lesbian and gay relationships.
- Define “identity abuse” and how it can be weaponized in gay and lesbian relationships.
- Describe the root causes and risk factors of IPV perpetration in lesbian and gay relationships.
- Deploy culturally specific IPV prevention strategies for lesbian and gay students.
Combating Myths and Stereotypes to Prevent Abuse Against Bisexuals
This workshop supports students in understanding how myths and stereotypes about bisexual persons can undermine efforts to prevent IPV and support bisexual survivors. This workshop equips students to facilitate culturally-responsive IPV prevention programming for bisexual students within their campus communities.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Identify the signs of an abusive relationship when one or both partners is bisexual.
- Recall definitions of terms such as “bisexual,” “pansexual,” and “omnisexual.”
- Critique and generate corrective responses to myths about bisexual students who experience IPV.
- Deploy culturally specific IPV prevention strategies for bisexual students.
- Support a bisexual friend through ending an abusive relationship.
Recognizing and Preventing Abuse in Trans and Non-Binary Relationships
This workshop supports students in understanding how myths and stereotypes about trans and non-binary persons can undermine IPV prevention efforts and the support trans and non-binary persons receive when they experience relationship abuse. This workshop equips students to facilitate culturally-responsive IPV prevention programming for trans and non-binary students within their campus communities.
Students who complete this workshop will be able to:
- Describe the “Gender Unicorn” and define “trans,” “non-binary,” and “cisgender.”
- Critique and generate corrective responses to myths about trans and non-binary students who experience IPV.
- Recall statistics on the prevalence of IPV committed against trans people.
- Effectively communicate how transphobia is weaponized against trans and non-binary persons experiencing IPV, and how it impacts their ability to access support services.
- Deploy culturally specific IPV prevention strategies for trans and non-binary students.
- Support trans and gender non-binary friends in seeking support services for IPV.