April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) which is symbolized by a teal ribbon, representing our commitment to supporting survivors. During SAAM, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Education team collaborates with campus and community partners to create a month full of educational and interactive ways to address the spectrum of violence; this includes sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating or domestic violence, gender-based harassment, and stalking.
In order to promote social distancing to protect our community by limiting the spread of COVID-19, SAAM events have transitioned to online delivery and digital means of connecting with each other.
Social distancing does not mean that you are alone. We are here for you. Preventing sexual violence requires all of us, especially now. The information below details how you can get involved and how to access the various on-campus supports you deserve.
We believe that SAAM is a critical opportunity to not only demonstrate our unwavering solidarity with survivors, but to be agents of change, working to create a campus culture that fosters healthy relationships, demonstrates care and support, puts consent into practice, and takes action to prevent instances of sexual violence. We are committed to providing programming and outreach that is survivor centered, trauma informed, culturally salient, community specific, and student driven.
Our calendar will be updated as more events take shape, so please keep checking back throughout April. Also, don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay connected with all our initiatives throughout the year.
We recognize that support is an important part of healing and navigating this work together as a community. Please consider connecting with the Care and Advocacy Program, Counseling Services, the SAFE website, or call the SAFE Hotline at 541-346-SAFE (7233).
SAAM Events 2021
The SAFE Bar Network's Haleigh Harrold and Christiana Kaviani from RISE SLO are cohosing the SAFE Night Out Connector. Connect with people working to prevent sexual violence in communities across the country for a conversation. Join us Wednesday, April 7th at 10 AM PST, 12 noon CST, or 1 PM EST. Email Haleigh Harrold at hharrold@safebarnetwork.org for the Zoom link and calendar invite.
"To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details."
Join us for our very first SAAM event of the month! The Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) will give you a one-stop guide to the programming we have planned for this month. Get excited because there are so many empowering events and activities to look forward to as we continue in our mission to end sexual assault in all forms.
Join SVPPA for our first meeting including introductions to our leadership team, what SVPPA bringing to UO's campus, and our plans for spring term! To access the zoom link, please join us by clicking the yellow button called "join stream".
SVPPA's first meeting where we will introduce group members and provide information on our plan for the term! Please click on Join Stream to join the zoom meeting.
RSVP and get a FREE copy of the book!
https://tinyurl.com/UOsexualcitizens
"To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details."
As the Signature Event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), The UO Men's Prevention Resource Center and Sexual Violence Prevention and Education are excited to host Dr. Shamus Khan and Dr. Jennifer Hirsch for a dynamic conversation about their groundbreaking research and book, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus!
Sexual Citizens transforms how we understand and address sexual assault. Through intimate portraits of life and sex among today’s college students, Hirsch and Khan present an entirely new way to understand sexual assault. Their insights transcend current debates about consent, predators in a “hunting ground,” or the dangers of hooking up.
Sexual Citizens reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault a predictable element of life on a college campus. The powerful concepts of sexual projects, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies, provide a new language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. The result transforms our understanding of sexual assault and provides a new roadmap for how to address it.
To check out other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM banner on UO events and please visit: https://dos.uoregon.edu/svpe/saam
Sex Cafe is meant to give people a space to discuss the impact of gender and sexualization on relationships. This workshop wants to make available a space that is trauma-informed to facilitate productive conversations that address the societal messages girls receive about sex and gender and how those messages infiltrate our ability to communicate in our intimate relationships today as adults.
Sex Cafe is meant to give people a space to discuss the impact of gender and sexualization on relationships. This workshop wants to make available a space that is trauma-informed to facilitate productive conversations that address the societal messages boys receive about sex and gender and how those messages infiltrate our ability to communicate in our intimate relationships today as adults.
interactive bystander intervention workshop practicing interrupting oppressive and problematic behaviors.
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
In light of the surge of anti-Asian violence including the recent shootings that occurred in Atlanta, the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE), University Counseling Services (UCS), and Sexual Violence Prevention & Education (SVPE) are offering a space to validate and name the racialized nature of these violent incidences. During a time we're remote, we wanted to provide a space for students to collectively express and process their fear, pain, and any other emotions that have arisen as a response to the escalated acts of xenophobic, Sinophobic and misogynistic violence towards our East and South-East Asian community members during the pandemic.
Mariko Lin and Bango Gancinia from University Counseling Services will be facilitating this group for all students that identify within the Asian, Desi, & Pacific Islander (ADPI) community. To center community building, this space is open to any students living in the Eugene/Springfield area, so we invite students from Lane Community College and Bushnell University to join us as well.
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) in May. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu. For APAHM events, please visit https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/apahm.
As a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this workshop provides awareness of the prevalence of IPV and sexual assault. It will also give an overview of coping, resources, and ways individuals can receive or provide support. This workshop is free and open to UO students, faculty, and staff.
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
The Gender Equity Center invites you to join us in creating digital vision boards, or other kinds of artwork, envisioning communities and relationships where communication is open, power is shared, and we all take part in creating cultures of consent.
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu.
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
More often than not, information about healthy relationships is centered around straight people; it can be challenging to find resources and information that make sense for LGBTQIA+ relationships. During this period of social distancing, many of us are separated from partners and queer family, and some of us are in physical environments that may not be affirming—or safe. These pressures make our connections with each other more important than ever, whether they’re happening in-person or digitally.
Join Drew and Ritu, queer mental health professionals and confidential advocates at UO, as they unpack the concept of a “healthy relationship” and explore how to develop relationships that work for queer people.
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu.
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
While the impact of the pandemic has disrupted all of our lives in one way or another, the effect of quarantine on individuals with marginalized identities and/or intersecting traumatic experiences is a little more complicated. Survivors of sexual violence have their own unique histories, circumstances, and needs related to their trauma, just as they have the same related to their unique identities. Using an intersectional and social-justice framework, we are offering a community space to discuss barriers to well-being and offer skills and strategies for coping through quarantine. We believe in the power of community and skill building and would love to engage in these conversations with you - join us!
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu.
Join us for our second meeting to talk about Title IX and Survivor Rights
As the world transitioned to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything possible was shifted online. This included the University of Oregon's universal intervention, Get Explicit 101, focused on creating a healthy and respectful campus culture and ending sexual violence. Normally a 90-minute in-person workshop facilitated by approximately 60 facilitators, Get Explicit was transitioned onto Zoom in a 60-minute webinar and 30-minute breakout group format.
Throughout the process, the 60 facilitators were asked about their experiences. Their feedback served as the foundation of this presentation detailing their experience creating connections through online programming and the effect that their participation in Get Explicit had on their student and personal lives. Please join us as we explore what preventionists, supervisors, and students can take away from this ~unprecedented~ year of pandemic programming.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, there have been innumerable escalated acts of xenophobic, Sinophobic and misogynistic violence towards our East and South-East Asian community members. In light of the shootings that occurred in Atlanta, when so few are publicly doing so, it’s important to validate and name the racialized and sexualized nature of this violent incident. Specifically, this has highlighted the nuance of how East & South-East Asian women experience harassment and sexual violence in USA. For a variety of reasons, it is understandable that folks are grieving, fearful, feeling alone among others. It is so important for us to come together – whether we are on-campus or not – as a community to support one another through these difficult times.
It is easy to feel alone and fearful; we believe community healing is integral to our individual growth and feelings of safety. It is especially important to center the experiences of our East and South-East Asian community members as we collectively address what effective racial justice work means here in the Eugene/Springfield area.
Thus, we are honoured to host Dr. Ron Miyaguchi, licensed psychologist, who will be facilitating a closed processing space which is open to any ADPI identifying individuals. Since this is online, anybody can participate and do not have to be affiliated with the University of Oregon or live in Lane County.
During May, we will be offering a follow-up open listening session with UO administrators and allies for those interested in attending and learning how to better support our ADPI community members. More details soon.
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) in May. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit https://dos.uoregon.edu/svpe/saam. For APAHM events, please visit https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/apahm.
Join us in conversation with a panel of experts about what the UO is doing to address sexual violence. Hosted by The Organization Against Sexual Assault (OASA), some topics we will be discussing are, updates to Title IX regulations, resources and support services for survivors, what the process of making and managing a Title IX report looks like, and other questions the audience expresses interest in.
Our confirmed panelists include:
Nicole Commissiong, Title IX Coordinator & Associate Vice-President, Office of Investigations & Civil Rights Compliance
Kasia Mlynski, Staff Attorney, Student Survivor Legal Services
Dr. Jimmy Howard, Assistant Dean of Students for Prevention and Response
Jessica Haymaker-Parsons, Director, Crisis Intervention & Sexual Violence Support Services
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
Don't forget to save this Zoom link to join the webinar during the start time of the event: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97199942178?pwd=Vkl5REVwRmVLdzJ3WjdDV1dMemljZz09
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu
Please join the UO Women’s Center April 26th-April 29th for “Take Back the Night 2021: A Remote Movement Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.”
Take Back the Night is a yearly international protest aimed at raising awareness about the realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence on campus and in the community, both for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence and those who want to support and bear witness in solidarity.
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this year’s event will be entitled “Take Back the Night 2021: A Remote Movement Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.” Monday-Thursday we will host Take Back the Night Virtual Rally Speakers with pre-recorded videos on Microsoft Stream (a platform which requires a UO ID to log in and view - a precaution for the personal safety and cultural sensitivity of our Speakers).
Virtual Rally Speakers will be representing the Latinx, Black, Refugee, Native American/Indigenous, Disabled, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ Communities and more.
Links to individual Rally Speaker videos will be posted on the Women’s Center’s website https://blogs.uoregon.edu/women, our Instagram (@uo_womenscenter) and our Facebook (UO Women’s Center) at 6pm each night.
Following the final Virtual Rally Speaker on Thursday, April 29th (the original night of Take Back the Night) will be a TBTN Virtual March on YouTube.
*JOIN* Take Back the Night 2021 by submitting your Virtual March Posters to be featured in the Take Back the Night Virtual March slideshow on YouTube. Submit photos and sign UO Model Release Forms online via https://tinyurl.com/TBTNPoster2021. Deadline for submissions is April 26th at 11:59 p.m.
For more information please contact Women’s Center Sexual Violence Prevention and Educator Coordinator, Kati Rodriguez, at SVPEWC@gmail.com or Women’s Center Director, Fatima Roohi Pervaiz, at fpervaiz@uoregon.edu
#TakeBackTheNight #SupportSurvivors #BelieveSurvivors #SAAM
Art by Kei Kort.
You are invited to attend a feedback session to assist confidential advocates in understanding the best resource for students who are considering Title IX reporting. We are interested in students voices and perspectives as we recognize that many students struggle with whether reporting is the best option for them.
Primarily, participants will be shown a draft resource flowchart and asked to consider its effectiveness in assisting survivors and student leaders in better understanding reporting options. Your feedback and thoughts will help confidential advocates determine if the visual will give student clearer expectations and feel more informed and supported through the reporting process.
A discussion with sex and relationship therapist Drew Terhune where anyone can submit anonymous questions about sex and relationships to be answered by an expert. The aim of this AMA is to answer the questions that people may be too afraid to ask openly, as sex and relationships can be uncomfortable subjects for people to discuss. This event is co-hosted by the men of Beta Theta Pi and their wonderful advisor Francis Pastorelle.
Zoom link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/5905424208
Form for submitting questions before the event:
https://forms.gle/v6RA5jtTUi3fZFYN9
For more information email
uobetariskmanagement@gmail.com
Be a part of the solution! Let's join together to promote healthy masculinities and reduce sexual violence in our community! Join McKenzie River Men's Center and the Center for Community Counseling in conversations around sexual violence, upbringing, intersections of social identities and more in this two-hour workshop. We invite anyone who mentors boys and men; parents, educators, coaches, clergy, community members, mental health and health care providers.
To register for this free event use the following link:
https://forms.gle/Qaisc3UvbRfSQBsG8
Post #MeToo there's been a lot of interest in restorative justice approaches to address sexualized violence. Though it is drawn from justice and healing practices from indigenous communities around the world, the current North American movement in Restorative Justice originated in the 1970's as an approach to addressing harms, including criminal harms, by reckoning honestly with impacts and valuing the needs of everyone involved. Rightfully, discussions about justice and justice systems are more active in all aspects of our society currently. However, with Restorative Justice praxis being increasingly discussed as an alternative to many types of harm, it's harder to know what the term actually means and who it's for.
Whose harms count? Whose stories are centered? Whose needs shape responses?
How exactly is Restorative Justice different from the other systems we are used to? How does it look when actually applied?
To hear the answers to these questions and more - join us in conversation with the Center for Dialogue & Resolution about the fundamentals of restorative justice and how it can be applied to communities and individuals.
Don't forget to save this Zoom link to join at the start of the event:
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/91094752356
Hosted by Sexual Violence Prevention Policy & Activism and UO Sexual Violence Prevention & Education, this event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit https://dos.uoregon.edu/svpe/saam.
*JOIN* the UO Women’s Center Take Back the Night 2021 by submitting your Virtual March Posters to be featured in the Take Back the Night Virtual March slideshow on YouTube.
Submit photos and sign UO Model Release Forms online via tinyurl.com/TBTNPoster2021.
The submission process is simple: you can take the photo and submit directly from your PHONE.
Deadline for submissions *EXTENDED* to April 28th at 11:59 p.m.
Take Back the Night is a yearly international protest aimed at raising awareness about the realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence on campus and in the community, both for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence and those who want to support and bear witness in solidarity.
The Virtual March Video will be available for viewing starting at 7:00 pm P.D.T on Thursday, April 29. YouTube like via tinyurl.com/UOTBTN21-VirtualMarch
Don't miss out - Join The Virtual March!
To access the virtual zoom links, please click on the yellow button named "Join Stream". Which can be found in the top right corner when you click on the event to pull up the complete details.
In light of the surge of anti-Asian violence including the recent shootings that occurred in Atlanta, the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE), University Counseling Services (UCS), and Sexual Violence Prevention & Education (SVPE) are offering a space to validate and name the racialized nature of these violent incidences. During a time we're remote, we wanted to provide a space for students to collectively express and process their fear, pain, and any other emotions that have arisen as a response to the escalated acts of xenophobic, Sinophobic and misogynistic violence towards our East and South-East Asian community members during the pandemic.
Mariko Lin and Bango Gancinia from University Counseling Services will be facilitating this group for all students that identify within the Asian, Desi, & Pacific Islander (ADPI) community. To center community building, this space is open to any students living in the Eugene/Springfield area, so we invite students from Lane Community College and Bushnell University to join us as well.
This event is a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) in May. For other SAAM events, please lookout for the Teal SAAM 2021 banner on UO events and visit saam.uoregon.edu. For APAHM events, please visit https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/apahm.
Share with us a piece of art that you want on display at the Sex Talk Chronicles Art Show 2021 on a virtual platform relating to the theme “Intimacy: Into Me You See”. For example, how is intimacy affected during a time of isolation and social distancing? What are ways that you cope with that? What do you wish you knew about intimacy when you were younger? What does intimacy mean to you?
We will send you an anonymous submission from Sex Talk Chronicles to pair with your art, and ask that you use that as your Artist Statement. You will then be invited to reflect about how reading someone else's words and using them to create a piece made you feel and how you connected with them and created intimacy anonymously.
You can submit art of any media including painting, photography, sculpture, music, spoken word, acting, dancing, and anything else that can be recorded or photographed for a virtual art show experience. All levels and multiple submissions are welcome! To learn more information and apply, visit: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_38mT50DSHtC3ANM.
All submissions must be in by WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TH. The event will go live on sexualhealth.uoregon.edu on Friday, May 21st.
We will be posting the link to the Prezi on our website at sexualhealth.uoregon.edu, on our social media (@protectconnect.pc and @healthyuo), and we will email the link out to Protection Connection users. Be sure to tune in on Friday, May 21st to check out your peers' art!
Play games, win prizes, and learn about some of the amazing resources available to all UO students through the Office of the Dean of Students (DOS).
Featured groups include the Women's Center, IMPACT, Nontraditional Student Union, Holden Center, LGBT+ Education & Support Services (LGBTESS), Sexual Violence Prevention & Education (SVPE), Substance Abuse Prevention & Education (SAPE), Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center (BCC), and the Men's Resource Center (MRC).
Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) Sexual Violence Prevention (SVP) Leadership Board: The FSL executive leadership established a leadership board, formerly referred to as a task force, requiring one member from each chapter to serve as a representative. The SVP Leadership Board meets weekly with the Director of Prevention Services to become more educated about sexual violence and develop leadership skills in motivating their respective chapters and communities to prevent and respond appropriately to instances of sexual violence.
This weekly meeting is open to assigned FSL SVP Delegates only.
Get Explicit 101 is a mandatory program for all incoming students that addresses what it means to be a Duck by preventing sexual violence. The peer-led training includes interactive discussions about healthy sexuality, boundaries, communication, consent, social norms, sexual assault, and bystander intervention.
Students are assigned to specific, 90-minute sessions. Details about assignments have been sent to UO student emails who are required to attend.
If you’ve experienced trauma or know someone who has, you are not alone. While trauma can have profound impacts, it does not have to define who we become. This workshop will increase your understanding of what constitutes trauma and increase your awareness of trauma prevalence, signs and symptoms, and campus resources that can help. This workshop will also equip you with coping strategies for managing symptoms related to trauma exposure and PTSD.
Life gets hard. College isn't easy. How do we know when it is time to ask for support and who can we ask for support from? This workshop focuses on learning how to identify when our feelings, thoughts and actions don't align with our truths. Knowing this we can learn when it is time to ask for help. We will also discuss how to ask for support within our social circle, college, and community.
Do you feel like you're stuck in a rut? Or that your typical routine is not working? Are you interested in creating healthy habits? Join us in this workshop where we will discuss how to form healthy habits that will benefit you both in-and-out of school.
How do we stay in the present moment when the future is always looming and the past is catching up to us? This workshop will center around what it means to be present by diving into the research and application of mindfulness techniques for the busy college student.