Cornell University's "Intervene" Bystander Intervention Campaign and Video

In 2016, Skornton Center for Health Initiatives at Cornell University produced "Intervene", a bystander intervention video and training workshop materials, and has made the content available online for free.  A facilitator discussion slide deck is also available, to allow anyone to facilitate a workshop using the video.  The campaign won a Best Practices award for Health Promotion and Education from the American College Health Association in 2018.

Here are Cornell's description of the video and the workshop:

    Video: The online 20-minute video Intervene includes brief filmed scenarios demonstrating ways in which student bystanders can successfully intervene in problematic situations. Seven different situations are addressed, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (emotional abuse), hazing, alcohol emergency, emotional distress, and bias.

    Workshop: An in-person 60-minute workshop provides an opportunity for students to view the video with others and engage in a facilitated conversation to reflect upon the attitudes and behaviors that influence the process of intervening as an individual or with assistance. 

And here are the primary links to the Intervene content:

- Project landing page
- The 20-minute video on Vimeo, also viewable at the main project site
- Program overview one-pager (PDF)
- Facilitator's guide (.pptx / Powerpoint format)

"Bystander Intervention Helps Prevent Sexual Assault in High Schools" - Teen Vogue article

This article was originally published in March 2017, but it's been making the rounds again more recently.  A few extracts below.

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In 2010, the same year he became principal of J. M. Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas Aberli agreed to let his students take part in something called Green Dot... Students are taught the “three Ds” of bystander intervention: direct, delegate, and distract.

[...]  In the largest and longest study of its kind, researchers studied 26 Kentucky high schools over five years. Half of the schools used the Green Dot program, and half did not offer any bystander intervention training. They found that by years three and four of the study, victimization rates were about 12% lower in schools that offered the Green Dot program than in those that did not. That translated to 120 fewer incidents of sexual violence in the third year of the study and 88 fewer in the fourth year.

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