The Red Flag Campaign
The Red Flag Campaign is a public awareness campaign that addresses dating violence and sexual assault on college campuses. The campaign uses a positive strategy to help promote healthy relationships. That is, the focus is on bystander intervention. It encourages people to “say something” if they see “red flags” or warning signs of abuse, or sexual violence in friend’s relationships.
Many times people want to “stay out of it” or “ignore” abusive behavior. The University of Minnesota Morris wants people to stand up against all forms of violence.
The poster series features “Red Flags” with scenarios and issues that might be present in a relationship with dating violence. The themes include: coercion, emotional abuse, sexual assault, victim-blaming, excessive jealousy, isolation, and stalking.
Red Flag Campaign Background
The Red Flag Campaign uses a bystander intervention strategy to address and prevent sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking on college campuses. The campaign encourages friends and other campus community members to say something when they see warning signs (“red flags”) for sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking in a friend’s relationship.
The Campaign is a project of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, and was created by college students, college personnel, and community victim advocates.
Learn more about the national campaign
Speak About It Flagship Show
Starting in the fall of 2021, Speak About It will be embedded into our First Year Experience course. Speak About It offers innovative, performance-based prevention education that aims to 1) promote healthy sexuality and relationships, 2) inform students about the realities of sexual assault, 3) provide tangible strategies for bystander intervention, and 4) connect audience members to campus and community resources relevant to sexual violence prevention, response, and education. The group is a nonprofit organization that partners with high schools and colleges and uses entertaining and educational performances and programs to empower students to prevent sexual violence, advocate for and practice healthy relationship habits, and create positive change within their communities.
Speak About It is a performance-based presentation about consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships intended for a mature high school or college audience. Using a combination of humorous yet provocative skits, interactive dialogue, and powerful monologues written by real college students, Speak About It covers a broad range of key topics in prevention education, including: consent, sexual assault, and bystander intervention.
Each of the educators in the five-person show undergoes sexual assault response training and speaks passionately, onstage and off, about the importance of taking an active role in ending sexual violence. Speak About It is the wisdom of an array of mistakes, misfortunes, successes, and perspectives; a compilation of true stories that captures what healthy sex can and should look like, and how to spark dialogues about it.
Online Prevent Zone Program from AliveTek:
Cultivating Awareness & Prevention of Sexual Violence: Cultivating Awareness & PreventionTM of Sexual Violence – College Edition is a one-hour course based on the Social Ecological Model of prevention. It encompasses Title IX and meets the requirements for Title IX Sexual Violence education.
Learning Outcomes include:
• the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships,
• how to promote attitudes, beliefs, and values that prevent sexual violence,
• three intervention strategies,
• how to apply the FRIES method for defining consent,
• how to support a survivor using the ACED method, and
• how to help make their campus a place where values around anti-violence are the social norm.
Module 1: Introduction
• Introduces the realities of sexual violence and the campus environment.
• Introduces key terms and concepts referenced throughout the course.
Module 2: Awareness
• Focuses on the Social Ecological Model, which considers the influence of individual, relationship, community, and societal factors on well-being and behavior.
• Provides ways to raise awareness for prevention in daily actions.
• Includes a review of Title IX policy and history.
Module 3: Health Relationships & Prevention
• Educates on the definition of consent and how it is given.
• Compares signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• Provides intervention training and strategies for peers and bystanders.
• Includes in-depth scenarios covering stalking, relationship violence, and sexual assault.
Module 4: Campus Policies & Resources
• You can customize this module to include Title IX policies and resources specific to your campus or community.
Module 5: Response
• Presents ways to support a sexual violence survivor including specific actions and language to use.
• Illustrates how to identify signs or symptoms of someone who has experienced trauma.
• Includes scenarios that provide understanding on how to put learning into practice.