#USVreact pilot training with university staff is concluding in the 4 partner countries, and the training resources are gradually being uploaded to this page. You can check material below:
Sussex University Disclosure training package (with programme)
1.5hr training_outline and structure
70 members of student-supporting staff were trained at the University of York, and a further 60 staff from various student-facing roles were trained. 40 are to be trained at each of the Associate Partner institutions the University of Lancaster and York St John University – making a prospective total of 210 participants. Here the material for download:
Its main purpose is to increase the capacity of the University community for the protection of the rights of people affected by the sexual harassment/violence.
The course, completely free, was developed for participatory methodologies and smalls groups (10-12 people), with a duration of 10 hours, distributed in two sessions.
The Programme outline can be downloaded here.
All the training materials are available in Spanish here http://usvreact.eu/es/urv-material/
and in Catalan here: http://usvreact.eu/ca/urv-material/
For more information about past courses http://usvreact.eu/ca/cursos-usvreact-urv/
Training sessions address issues of sexual violence at university, and gender violence more broadly, and include both discussion of theoretical and policy frameworks and practical exercises. So far, groups have responded with great interest and have expressed the desire to develop further self-organised initiatives at the university to address issues of sexual and gender violence.
Download the full training programme outline here.
Training material in Greek here.
more info: http://www.genderstudies-panteion.gr/en/
The training entitled “University Support for Victims of Sexual Violence; a training course for sustainable services over time.” aimed to contrast gender violence at the Universities in Turin, Italy. Participants were administrative staff, teachers/researchers, students, workers in University residences.
Between 2016 and 2017, a total of 92 people participated in USVreact training in the University of Turin and 80 in the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy).
The training program was organized in four stages: one initial 4-hour plenary session; two 4-hour small group sessions; and one 4-hour final plenary session. Group sessions were conducted focusing on both psychological and legal perspectives.
Original title of the training in Italian: “UNIVERSITÀ A SUPPORTO DELLE VITTIME DI VIOLENZA SESSUALE. Un percorso di formazione per servizi sostenibili nel tempo”
Learning objectives:
- Recognize sexual violence:
- Definition of sexual violence
- Identification of different forms of sexual violence
- The specificity of harassment at work and in university
- Contrast and prevent sexual violence:
- How to manage cases of disclosures
- How to intervene and to support intervention
- How to develop a culture contrasting sexual violence
Download the English programme outline here.
Find all the training material in Italian language here.
The training has been designed to increase awareness, help identify and understand different expressions of sexual violence in our contexts and give practical tools for reflecting and acting responsibly in both reaction and prevention of the issue.
Session one, part one: how do different forms of sexual violence manifest in university settings?
- Fictional cases are used as a starting point to debate on how we perceive and identify sexual violence: different levels of intensity, different expressions, different people at which it is aimed, diverse actors involved.
- The work of different groups is put together in a common guided debate where we start to analyse how elements of power act in cases of sexual violence.
Session one, part two: understanding, framing and defining sexual violence
- Following the debates in the first part, we go deeper in the analysis of structural elements involved in SV and the interaction between them. Concepts such as intersectionality, gender, sexual identity and gender expression are introduced using an understandable language and based on the cases and debates in the first part.
- Different definitions of SV used in protocols, legal texts or regulatory documents in universities are discussed in groups to analyse the impact of how we define SV in what we do to tackle it.
Session two, part one: how do we react? Perceiving, listening, caring, accompanying and evaluating.
- Theatre-forum techniques are used to understand the ways in which we react to SV disclosures in university settings. This helps understand the specificities of university and its structures and the way they conform our reactions.
- Exercises of active listening are used to collectively reflect on the ways we listen and interact with survivors and to understand how power relations are involved as well in the process of disclosure and aid.
- Through a presentation, we underline the main elements analysed in both exercises and complete them with feminist experts’ advice in how to listen to survivors, develop care and accompany them from a non-paternalist stand and encouraging processes of empowerment and social/environmental change.
Session two, part two: tools, services and strategies for a fair first response in university
- Real cases are used as a starting point to analyse the potentialities, fragilities and needs of our university in SV cases: how would our university react if this would have happened here? What do we need to improve this response.
- Specific contributions are gathered for strategies that range from individual implication to institutional measures.
- Finally, we present a series of resources to which we can refer to, both inside the university and in the associative and local-institutional arena.
All the training materials are available in Spanish: http://usvreact.eu/es/ehu-material/ and Basque http://usvreact.eu/eu/ehu-material/
Brunel training adapted by Keele University
Brunel Facilitators’ Guides (PPTs and Intros)
DAY1
Facilitators’ FR Guide day 1
First Response Programme Presentation day 1
DAY2
Facilitators’ FR Guide day 2
First Response Programme Presentation day 2
Brunel Participant Handouts and Activities
DAY 1
Existing Perceptions Media Extracts USV1
Hidden Marks Extracts USV2
Statistics USV3
Who is Culpable USV4
Vignettes Difference and Diversity USV5
DAY2
Vignettes USV9
R.A.C.E Handout USV10
Dos and Donts list for Observers USV11a
Dos and Donts list to cut up USV11b
Support Services for First Responders USV12
Sussex SV Care Pathway USV13
Further Reading USV14
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