Talk About it: Everyday Consent, Recognizing and Responding to Disrespect

In a one hour, large scale presentation students will start the important conversation of fostering a supportive, healthy & safe USF community. In this session and small group scenario work with GO team leaders and RAs, students will be engaging in discussions around consent, sexual assault prevention, healthy relationships, and active bystander behavior. Building a campus grounded in respect is a community project that every Don has a part in.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will gain knowledge of campus resources to support them around issues of sexual and intimate partner violence, and healthy relationships.
• Students will describe and discuss positive relationship behaviors and characteristics.
• Students will recognize signs of agreement and refusal in social, romantic, or sexual situations and identify elements of consent related to sexual activity.
• Students will practice and utilize the concept of bystander intervention behaviors by recognizing and responding to disrespect.

Student leaders are highly trained to recognize and respond to disrespect. Mandatory reporters are trained on response resources on-campus. Student leaders trained in 60-90 minute sessions with Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Sexual Violence Resource Advocate, and Title IX Coordinator include:

• Resident Advisors
• Community Assistants
• GO Team - Orientation Leaders
• Health Promotion Services Graduate Students
• Chartered Student Organization Leaders
• Cultural Center Interns
• Koret Student Staff 
• Black Resource Center's Mental Health Ambassadors

Sexual Misconduct Prevention Training: Community Values and Accountability

(90 minutes- team only) 

To prevent sexual misconduct, and to respond well when it does occur, we need strong, inclusive, supportive communities. Athletic teams are huge sources of community for student-athletes.  This training offers groups a chance for purposeful reflection, exploring their internal community dynamics and explicitly articulating their shared values and goals. By meeting with SAAC representatives and team leaders or Captains in advance, the Deputy Title IX Coordinator works with student-athletes to identify specific issues the group would like to address and customize the training accordingly. 

The specific training covers the following areas: 

• Students will gain knowledge of campus resources to support them around issues of sexual and intimate partner violence, and healthy relationships.
• Students will describe and discuss positive relationship behaviors and characteristics.
• Students will recognize signs of agreement and refusal in social, romantic, or sexual situations and identify elements of consent related to sexual activity.
• Students will practice and utilize the concept of bystander intervention behaviors, especially in team based setting 
• The team will be able to take a larger role in addressing USF’s  ongoing struggles with sexual misconduct. Teams and athletes are powerful players in creating change. 

Mandatory Reporter Training

 The course is called Building Supportive Communities: Clery Act and Title IX it is mandatory for all  new employees on Workday. 

Follow these steps to complete training in Workday:

1. Log in to Workday as you normally would.
2. From the TopApps menu on the right of the Workday homepage, click View All Apps.
3. Scroll down until you see the Learning app; click on the app.
4. From the Learning app menu, choose Discover.
5. Choose Browse Learning, then select 003 Building Supportive Communities: Clery Act and Title IX
6. Click on the course title and then click Enroll on the right of the screen; click Submit and you will be automatically enrolled and directed to the start of the course.
7. You will be able to start and stop the course as needed; as before, your completion will not be recorded until you have finished all sections of the training.
8. Your course status and final completion will be recorded in Workday on your learning transcript.

REPS Advocate Trainings

REPS, Resources Education, Prevention, & Response, a Title IX initiative, is focused on recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month this coming April faculty, and staff can get involved and become REPS-certified advocates by attending one of our 90-minute sessions. All faculty and staff are mandatory reporters on campus, and this session offers additional training on how to respond to disclosures of sexual misconduct, intervention techniques, and the creation of a climate of respect. All sessions are led by Deputy Title IX Coordinator Trina Garry (she/her). Contact kgarry@usfca.edu with any questions.

• Athletic Department: all Coaches, Staff, and Administrators

• Residential Education Team: Residence Directors, Assistant Residence Directors, Operations Managers, Community Office Managers

• Chemistry Department: Graduate Student Teaching Assistants 

• Sport Management Program

• Health Promotion Services: Public Health Graduate Students, Peer Health Educators

• Counseling and Psychological Services - all acting clinicians 

• University Ministry