SVPRO

The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO), is hosting a virtual Lunch & Learn to discuss and answer questions about how and why it is important to teach young children about consent and boundaries. We will also discuss the power and importance of language and politeness conditioning and provide resources.

Audience: students, staff, and faculty

Register: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7357

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For more information, please contact Stacey Jacobs at s3jacobs@uwaterloo.ca

Join Chris Martin (he/him) with the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office for a Male Allies workshop, a drop-in, virtual workshop for men-identifying students seeking to understand and practice male allyship. The objective of these workshops is to engage and encourage men, with their unique privilege and responsibility, to address systemic and everyday forms of gender-based violence.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand how to address systemic and everyday forms of gender-based violence
2. Recognize and understand what characterizes effective male allyship
3. Understand how to practice male allyship and engage in alternative narratives of masculinity
4. Recognize the complex roots of gender-based and sexual violence
5. Understand how to identify and address privilege, gender stereotypes, biases, and existing systems of inequity.
6. Encourage men to understand their unique and important role in shaping a safe and healthy campus community.

Join virtually via Teams on your computer, mobile app or room device:

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Meeting ID: 213 388 504 037
Passcode: oRAWoT

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The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), in partnership with the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region (SASC) is providing Responding to a Disclosure of Sexual Violence workshop as part of the art exhibit, What Were You Wearing?

This training will help prepare participants to supportively respond to a disclosure of sexual violence, and build confidence in their ability to respond. It will also unpack sexual violence myths, including victim blaming associated with survivors based on what they were wearing - let's dispel this myth. 
 

The workshop will be held on Tuesday February 28th, from 5:30PM to 7:30PM in the Student Life Centre, Multi-Purpose Room (SLC, MPR).

Link to register: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7266
 

We hope to see you there!

Join the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) and Sexual Assault Centre for Waterloo Region (SASC) for the What Were You Wearing? art installation. What Were You Wearing? is an art exhibit based on student-survivor descriptions of the clothes they were wearing when they were sexually assaulted. Sexual assault survivors are often asked, “what were you wearing?”, implying that what someone wears can cause a sexual assault.

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. 

The “What Were You Wearing?” Survivor Art Installation originated at the University of Arkansas in 2013. Created by Jen Brockman and Dr. Mary Wyandt-Hiebert, the project was inspired by Dr. Mary Simmerling’s poem, What I Was Wearing. Oregon State University interpreted and recreated a virtual exhibit.

This semester, the SVPRO in partnership with SASC is recreating the exhibit to highlight the pervasiveness of victim-blaming and the harm and trauma it causes survivors.
 

When

Tuesday February 28, 10am to 8pm

Wednesday March 1, 10am to 5pm
 

Where

Student Life Centre, Multi-Purpose Room (SLC - MPR)

Join Healing from Sexual Violence, 6-week closed group that will mix psycho-education, processing, and skills development for survivors of sexual violence. Open to women-identified, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students at the University of Waterloo - presented by the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office. 

Register at: groups@sascwr.org 

Join the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) on Monday, February 13th in the Student Life Centre (SLC), Multi-Purpose Room to meet some furry friends and take a stand against street harassment!

As part of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) Winter Consent Week, visit our Consent Booth in STC Atrium on Thursday, January 26th 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.

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.

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