Prevention Strategies

Current Prevention Programming

The Center for Health Education and Promotion offers educational programs facilitated by trained peer educators. The programs offer educational resources for students and provide awareness on several different topics. Among those topics are alcohol and other drugs, body image, dating violence, domestic violence, healthy relationships, safer sex, sexual assault, stalking, and stress. The programs related to Sexual Violence are listed below.

  • Getting Down in the Green
  • Escalation
  • Behind the Post
  • Red Flags

 

Check back for upcoming events specific to these topics:

  • Red Flag Campaign
  • It's On Us Campaign
  • Escalation Training

Interested in requesting a program? Request a program here.

The Center for Health Education is located in SMC 110 and 111 and is open from 8am-4:30pm.  Contact us at 717-871-4141 or at chep@millersville.edu. 

Green Dot Training

Green Dot | Millersville University

Be an Active Bystander

Being an active bystander discourages attitudes and behaviors that support sexual assault and other harmful behavior. The goal of Green Dot is to implement a bystander intervention strategy that prevents and reduces power-based personal violence. Power-based violence includes: sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. A Green Dot is a behaviour, choice, or action that promotes safety for everyone on campus.

 

Identifying Relationship Violence

If your friend is in an unhealthy relationship and you notice these patterns of behavior from their partner:

Red Flags in a relationship:

  • Checking your cell phone or email without permission
  • Constantly putting you down
  • Extreme jealousy or insecurity
  • Explosive temper
  • Isolating you from family or friends
  • Making false accusations
  • Mood swings
  • Physically hurting you in any way
  • Possessiveness
  • Telling you what to do
  • Pressuring or forcing you to have sex

When communicating with a friend about and unhealthy relationship remember to:

  • Find the right time to talk about the issue
  • Talk face-to-face
  • Do not judge or attack
  • Support: talk to them and tell them you are concerned for their safety.
  • Empower: encourage your friend to make a safety plan
  • Connect: connect the victim to information and resources
    • Show them the loveisrespect.org website
    • Have available the 24hr hotline number 1-800-799-7233