Current students

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 at: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7114

Join the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) and Athletics and Recreation at the Men's Volleyball Game Consent Booth. Happening on Saturday, January 21st from 5-8PM in Physical Activities Complex (PAC), Upper East. Learn about consent, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), and collect free SVPRO swag! Together, let's build a #ConsentCulture on campus.

As part of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) Winter Consent Week, visit our Consent Booth in SLC Marketplace on Tuesday January 24th from 10AM-3PM. Learn about consent, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), and collect free SVPRO swag! Together, let's build a #ConsentCulture on campus.

A creative and interactive workshop about love and relationships. Start preparing for Valentine’s Day by making some cute feminist valentines with us! While we craft, participants will have the opportunity to join in on meaningful discussion about what we all want and deserve from partnerships and friendships.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/you-deserve-love-tickets-350576944077

In this workshop, we will discuss tools to improve communication in our sexual relationships. Using a want/will/won’t list can help us talk about our boundaries, wants, and needs with a partner. This workshop focuses on themes of pleasure, consent, and intimacy to encourage in healthy sexual relationships.  

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sexual-communication-tickets-350569100617

As part of Consent Week, join SVPRO for a virtual workshop as they explore what a healthy - or unhealthy - relationship can look like/sound like/feel like in 2023. 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. 

Where: Microsoft Teams 

Register: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7203 

For more information, please contact Chris Martin at chris.martin@uwaterloo.ca

Join SVPRO on Monday, January 23rd for Monday Meditation: Healing from Harm, at St. Jerome's University from 7-8PM.

As part of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) Winter Consent Week, visit our Consent Booth in DC Foyer on Monday, January 23rd from 10AM-3PM. Learn about consent, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), and collect free SVPRO swag! Together, let's build a #ConsentCulture on campus.

On December 6, the University of Waterloo, in partnership with the Canadian Federation of University Women Kitchener-Waterloo, will host an annual ceremony of remembrance to honor the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. 

When someone you care about has been through something difficult like sexual violence, it can be difficult to know just what to say.