Join the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) on Wednesday, March 13th in the Student Life Centre (SLC), Multi-Purpose Room to meet some furry friends and take a stand against street harassment! Thank you to St. John's Ambulance Dogs!
Current students
NeuroMinds Collective is a safe haven where your neurodiversity is celebrated, understood, and supported. We're a community of students who share diverse cognitive profiles, including ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, and more. Our aim is to build a tight-knit network where you can freely express your thoughts, concerns, and achievements in a judgment-free zone.
What we offer
- Shared Understanding: Connect with fellow students who experience the world through a similar lens. Share your stories and experiences and gain valuable insights from others who truly understand.
- Peer Support: Whether you're navigating through academic challenges, social interactions, or simply need a listening ear, our group is here to provide the understanding and encouragement you deserve.
- Resource Exchange: Discover strategies, tips, and resources that have worked for others in managing your unique strengths and challenges within the university environment.
Facilitators
Chris (he/him) I’m a Workplace Anti-Sexual Harassment Educator working in the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO). I’ve spent the last 20 years working with individuals with various cognitive and physical disabilities with a special interest in supporting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. My journey with neurodiversity includes living with Sensory Processing Disorder, OCD, and PTSD. For me, navigating the world with its sights and sounds (especially the sounds!!) can be difficult in a way I often struggle to put into words. I’m excited to co-facilitate this group with Rania and share what I’ve learned in my own life while also learning from group participants.
Rania (she/her) Hello! My name is Rania (she/her) and I identify as a queer, neurodivergent, Palestinian-Egyptian and Filipino cis-woman. I’m also a Registered Social Worker, counsellor at Counselling Services, UW alum, and co-facilitator of this group alongside Chris.
I’m inspired by the incredible advocates and scholars of the neurodiversity-affirming movement, sharing their lived experiences and research and shifting the dialogues on what we know and how we think about neurodiversity. It has empowered me to embrace my neurodivergence as a beautiful part of who I am, and that’s exactly what I hope to cultivate with you!
Who can join?
Open to any and all self-identified neurodivergent UWaterloo students. No diagnosis necessary.
Register on Portal
Location
NH - Ira G. Needles Hall
Room: 2447
In honour of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, join SVPRO at our Consent Booth in SLC from 12-4PM. Together, let's work towards building a culture of consent on campus, and advance gender equity.
To learn more about 16 Days and our initiatives honouring the annual event, please visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/sexual-violence-prevention-response-office/get-involved/16-days-activism-against-gender-based-violence
In honour of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, join SVPRO at our Consent Booth in SLC from 12-4PM. Together, let's work towards building a culture of consent on campus, and advance gender equity.
To learn more about 16 Days and our initiatives honouring the annual event, please visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/sexual-violence-prevention-response-office/get-involved/16-days-activism-against-gender-based-violence
As part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, join SVPRO, in collaboration with SASC, for a virtual workshop as they explore what a healthy or unhealthy relationship can look like, sound like, and feel like. This workshop will have a focus on building consent culture awareness with tactics and tips to practicing healthy consent in all aspects of our lives, intimate relationships, or otherwise.
Register at:
Teams link to join workshop: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2E0YWQ2M2QtZWU4OC00NzcwLWJiNzUtOWRjY2IxODJkZjJm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2234511a57-a295-45a8-9792-01bd367c2fef%22%7d
Bridge 2023: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People
An annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.
Opening Ceremony: Friday, November 10 at 10:00 AM
For the Opening Ceremony, we are requesting volunteers to read the names — please contact Sorouja Moll.
Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College, and will be followed by a catered Creative Reflection and Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) with support from the Department of Communication Arts.
Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.
The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it.
Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and supported by the Department of Communication Arts after the Opening and Closing Ceremonies from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper.
Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.
The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
Bridge 2023: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People
An annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.
Opening Ceremony: Friday, October 27 at 10:00 AM
For the Opening Ceremony, we are requesting volunteers to read the names — please contact Sorouja Moll.
Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College, and will be followed by a catered Creative Reflection and Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) with support from the Department of Communication Arts.
Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.
The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it.
Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and supported by the Department of Communication Arts after the Opening and Closing Ceremonies from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper.
Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.
The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
What Were You Wearing? Exhibit
The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO), in partnership with the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Treatment Centre (SADVTC), are bringing the What Were You Wearing? Art Exhibit to the University of Waterloo.
The exhibit recreates outfits worn by university students when they experienced sexual violence. Sexual violence survivors are often asked, “what were you wearing?”, implying that what someone wears is the cause of sexual violence.
This semester, the SVPRO and the SASVTC are recreating the exhibit to highlight the pervasiveness of victim-blaming and the harm and trauma it causes survivors.
This myth about sexual violence is used to blame survivors and justify the actions of those who cause harm. Survivors are never to blame for their experience(s) of sexual violence. We all have the right to wear what we want.
Sexual violence myths, also known as rape myths, want us to believe that survivors ‘ask for it’ through their behaviour and manner of dress. But the fact is that no behaviour or manner of dress justify sexual violence - the onus is on the person causing harm not to do so.
You can visit the Exhibit in the SLC multi-purpose room Tuesday, October 24 and Wednesday, October 25 from 10am – 8pm. Everyone is welcome!
Engage with the exhibit at your own pace.
Questions can be directed to: Stacey Jacobs, s3jacobs@uwaterloo.ca
Understanding how tech-facilitated gender-based violence happens in our modern society is very important yet lacks a distinct piece of the mainstream narrative around gender-based violence prevention efforts.
We will examine how it happens and give smart practices around prevention efforts.
Register at: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7546
Open to engineering undergraduate and graduate students, join SVPRO for Active Bystander Intervention training, which equips you with the knowledge and skills to be a proactive bystander in situations of harm or imminent harm, with a focus on those related to sexual violence. A certificate of completion will be distributed upon completion.
Register: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7548