About Power-Based Personal Violence

Power-based personal violence includes stalking, dating and domestic violence, and sexual assault. This affects many lives, both directly and indirectly, regardless of one's gender identity, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, religion, citizenship status, marital status, ability, education level or affiliation.

3 D's of Intervention

Successful bystander intervention happens when your personal barriers and safety are considered! In order to assist someone who may be in harm’s way there are a few approaches that can be taken:

• Direct: Approach a situation and to be straight forward when expressing concern or engaging in a confrontation.
• Delegate: Ask someone else for assistance in confronting alarming behavior.
• Distract: Divert the attention of the individuals involved by causing a distraction.

A coalition of departments, offices, and community members at BGSU have partnered with the national initiative. The Green Dot Strategy to address sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking through bystander education and intervention. The Green Dot strategy aims to shift campus culture and increase proactive preventative behavior by targeting influential members from across a community with basic education, skill practice, and reactive interventions to high-risk situations. Every choice to be proactive as a bystander is categorized as a “new behavior” and thus a “Green Dot.” Individual decisions (green dots) group together to create larger change.

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