Consent Week

Monday, September 16, 2024 - Friday, September 20, 2024 (all day)
We all have a role to play in building a consent culture

#ConsentWeek

Consent Week is an opportunity for campus community members to engage in conversations, activities, and events focused on consent, in an effort to build a #ConsentCulture.   

Consent Weeks are held twice a year, during the third week of September, and the fourth week of January.  

Though talking about consent and advancing consent culture are work we do all year round, consent week enables us to intentionally: 

  • Normalize dialogue about consent 

  • Enhance nuanced understandings of consent 

  • Explore how to engage in healthy, positive, respectful relationships with each other 

  • Embed consent in our daily practices 

  • And highlight the services on and off campus available for support 

Fall Consent Week Initiatives: September 16-20

Monday September 16 

  • Consent Booth featuring ACCKWA
    11AM-3PM, B2 Atrium 
     

Tuesday September 17 

  • Understanding the Red Zone 
    10AM-5PM, SLC Marketplace 
    Join SVPRO and WUSA they provide awareness and prevention tactics to the Red Zone. Come spin the Consent Wheel, learn about the Red Zone and support services on campus, take a campus tour of support services and pick up some resources and SWAG! 
     

Wednesday September 18 

  • SVPRO at Campus Life Fair 
    11AM-2PM, SLC Great Hall 
    Come spin the Consent Wheel, learn about consent, ask sexual health questions, pick up some resources and SWAG and learn about other organizations on campus. 
     

Thursday September 19 

  • Consent Booth for #WeBelieveSurvivorsDay 
    11AM-3PM, DC Foyer 

  • Take Back the Night 
    6-9PM, Gaukel Block, Downtown Kitchener 
    Join SASC - the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region - and other community partners at Take Back the Night – a call to end gender-based violence. There will be a march, speeches, performances and community booths and information. 

Continuing to Build Consent Culture Beyond Consent Week

Monday September 23 

  • ​​​​​​​Active Bystander Intervention Training – STUDENTS 
    5:30-8:00PM, virtually via Teams 
    Please register on portal

Thursday October 3 

  • Lunch & Learn: Talking to Children (ages 0-6) about Consent 
    12-1PM, virtually via Teams​​​​​​​ 

Tuesday November 5