Prevention Education
The Phoenix Center at Auraria’s Violence Prevention Peer Education (VPE) Program raises awareness and exposes myths and stereotypes of interpersonal violence through interactive workshops in and out of classrooms.
If you’re not sure which curriculum would be most appropriate for your audience, please take our new curriculum quiz in order to help you narrow down your decision!
The VPE program consists of a group of committed Auraria students who provide workshops on a variety of topics topics related to interpersonal violence (IPV). Workshops can be customized to run 60-90 minutes long so they can be easily implemented during a class period, staff meeting, or conference on the Auraria campus. They are interactive sessions that have very little lecture and intend to engage the students in the discussion of these difficult issues.
If you are interested in hosting an educational program or would like training for your campus organization or department then the PCA’s VPE program can help. They can tailor a presentation or interactive workshop to your needs.
Our most popular workshops include:
PCA General Overview
The PCA Overview presentation reviews the services available to students, faculty, staff, and resident of CU Denver, CU Anschutz, MSU Denver, and CCD.
Supporting Survivors: Responsible Employees OR Students
This skill building session breaks down some survivor myths, discusses victim blaming, and dives into how to respond when someone discloses to you. The Supporting Survivors - Responsible Employees presentation is excellent for faculty and staff who want to learn how to support students and coworkers who are survivors and gain a better understanding about their obligations as responsible employees. The Supporting Survivors - Students presentation informs students what a responsible employee is on campus and develops students skills on how to support their peers who disclose experiencing interpersonal violence to them.
Interpersonal Violence 101
This session will provide a general overview of sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking. Interactive activities will help participants identify consent, patterns in an abusive relationship, and stalking behavior.
Healthy Relationships: With Yourself and Others
An interactive discussion in which Violence Prevention Educators and participants work to create a shared definition of healthy relationships (intimate or otherwise) by placing emphasis on the importance of our personal values, boundaries, and needs. The group will also explore healthy ways love is expressed, harbingers of relationships in trouble, and power and control dynamics. In this way the course works to empower participants with the knowledge and ability to differentiate among healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships.
Bystander Intervention
Have you ever seen someone being harassed and not know what to do? This presentation creates space for participants to analyze how identity and unconscious biases influence our decisions around intervention. An overview of Right To Be’s 5 D’s of Intervention is provided to participants to give them tools on how to intervene when they see violence and harassment. Participants will be given the opportunity to practice applying these 5 D’s with different real-world scenarios.
Media Literacy
This workshop provokes discussion about what interpersonal violence is and how media and pop culture messages contribute to the normalization of it in our culture through activities, images and video clips. This workshop is intended to help participants think critically about a media heavy society and how it can affect views on interpersonal violence and what individuals and groups can do to create change.
For special requests for custom presentations to better fit your needs, or questions about the curriculum above, please contact us at racheal.reed-maloney@ucdenver.edu.
To schedule a workshop, please fill out our Workshop Request Form.