Presentations
OPEN offers interactive, customized presentations about topics related to sexual violence and healthy relationships for classes, student organizations, athletic teams, fraternities and sororities, first-year seminars, staff and faculty. See below for our current offerings, and request a presentation at this link. We will do our best to accommodate all requests. We may be limited by staffing or scheduling conflicts. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at open@northeastern.edu or 617.373.4459.
Up2Us: Bystander Intervention
Approximate run time: 60 minutes
Facilitated by: Sexual Violence Prevention Educators and/or OPEN staff members
Students will learn how to recognize situations that are potentially high-risk for violence and how to effectively intervene. This program also covers the impact alcohol can have on a person’s ability to give consent, resource options, and how to support survivors of sexual violence. This program is also available as a self-enrollable Canvas module. This course was created for first-year seminar classes, but may be adapted.
Please note: If you are a first-year seminar instructor, OPEN will be in touch with your college to schedule your section’s Up2Us: Bystander Intervention presentation. You do not need to fill out this form. If you have questions, please contact open@northeastern.edu.
Bystander Intervention for Student Organizations
Approximate run time: 75 minutes
Facilitated by: OPEN peer educators along with a student leader within the organization
Tailored specifically student organizations, students will learn to recognize situations that are potentially high-risk for violence and how to effectively intervene. This program offers opportunities for group discussion on organizational culture and building a culture that resists sexual violence.
RESPOND: Trauma-Informed Response to Disclosures of Sexual Violence
Approximate run time: 75 minutes
Facilitated by OPEN staff members
If someone tells you that they have been impacted by sexual violence, you may be unsure or even feel unequipped to know what to say or do. In this training, you will learn how to offer support to someone making a disclosure in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered way. This training covers basics on the impacts of sexual trauma, information on why a compassionate response to disclosures is so important, step-by-step considerations for an effective response, and information on resources. This program is also available as a self-enrollable Canvas module.
The Relationship Spectrum
Approximate run time: 75 minutes
Facilitated by: OPEN staff members
Learn about characteristics of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships, how to define and communicate your own boundaries in relationships, and how to support a friend who is experiencing domestic violence.
Cultivating Consent Culture
Approximate time: 75 minutes
Facilitated by: OPEN staff or peer educators
This workshop explores what consent means as well as ways we can better communicate and recognize it in practice. Discussions will focus on a more nuanced meaning of consent and how we can build a culture that promotes “sexual citizenship.”
Programming
OPEN facilitates programming for multiple awareness events throughout the year, including weeks related to sexual violence prevention and education. Programming focuses on healing and support for survivors, information about consent, sexual health and healthy relationships, recognizing warning signs of domestic violence, and supporting friends around these topics.
Past programming has included resource fairs, speaker events, art workshops, yoga classes, and tailored education. Check out our signature events here:
Online Modules
OPEN offers Canvas courses available to Northeastern community members about topics related to sexual violence. Students can self-enroll by clicking the links below. Faculty and staff can also import the modules into their own courses, available through Canvas Commons. Some module offer associated digital badges, which is noted in the module description. For more information about digital badging, click here.
Up2Us: Foundations
Up2Us: Foundations is Northeastern’s foundational sexual violence prevention program required for all new, incoming students to the University. This course covers topics including consent and healthy sexual communication, warning signs of sexual violence, how to intervene to prevent sexual violence, and resources related to sexual violence.
Up2Us: Bystander Intervention
Bystander intervention is one of the most promising strategies we have for preventing sexual violence. In this training, you will learn to recognize situations that are potentially high-risk for violence and how to effectively intervene. The module also covers how alcohol can affect a person’s ability to give consent, resource options, and how to support survivors of sexual violence.
Note: This course is not the same as Up2Us: Foundations, which is required for incoming students. We recommend taking Up2Us: Foundations prior to taking Up2Us: Bystander Intervention.
Preventing & Responding to Sexual Violence as a Student Leader
Designed for student leaders, this course focuses on preventing and responding to incidents of sexual violence within student organizations. Participants learn campus resources available for support, reflect on organizational culture, and build skills to intervene and respond to allegations of sexual violence.
Note: This course and its associated digital badge are required as part of the Student Organization Training Experience (SOTE). For more information, visit the Center for Student Involvement’s website.
Preventing & Responding to Sexual Violence as a Fraternity & Sorority Life Student Leader
Fraternity and sorority life chapter leaders completing this course will learn campus resources available for support, reflect on their organization’s culture, and build skills to intervene and respond to allegations of sexual violence.
RESPOND: Trauma-Informed Response to Disclosures of Sexual Violence
If someone tells you that they have been impacted by sexual violence, you may be unsure or even feel unequipped to know what to say or do. In this training, you will learn how to offer support to someone making a disclosure in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered way. This training covers basics on the impacts of sexual trauma, information on why a compassionate response to disclosures is so important, step-by-step considerations for an effective response, and information on resources.