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Violence Intervention Assistant's Trainings
The VIA trainings are a "safe space" type training for issues of power-based interpersonal violence: sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking and sexual harassment. It is designed for, and presented by, undergraduate students. Participants learn:
- What sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking are
- The impact of these crimes and indicators that they have occurred
- How to help someone who may have experience these crimes
- What resources are available
- Bystander Intervention skills like:
- How to identify high risk situations
- How to safely intervene and prevent violence from occurring
For more information: http://www.health.umd.edu/node/841
To register, students just need to send their contact information and the training date they'd like to attend to
[email protected].
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