Next week, 24-28 August is It’s On All of Us Week 2020.
It’s On All of Us Week promotes Griffith University’s values that we all share a responsibility to create respectful and safe campus communities, where assault, harassment and disrespectful behaviours are not tolerated, and where students and staff are encouraged to seek support.
There are a range of events, training and resources available to participate in during this event. Increasing your awareness, understanding and confidence is creating a safe campus.
Events
Monday 24 August: Keeping Safe Online is Everyone’s Business
This 60-minute webinar developed for Griffith University by the eSafety Commissioner team aims to provide greater awareness of online safety including:
Register via the Safe Campuses website.
Tuesday 25 and Thursday 27 August: Respectfully Challenging Disrespectful Behaviour
Living true to your values and holding people accountable, in safe and respectful ways. A 90 minute webinar from the MATE Bystander team.
Register via the Safe Campuses website.
Training
Sex & Respect: It’s On All Of Us
- understand respect as a foundation to healthy relationships
- identify consent and non-consent in relationships and sexual interactions
- understand attitudes and assumptions in society which effect your own beliefs and boundaries
- learn ways to look out for friends and others through positive leadership as an active bystander.
Staff and students should complete Sex and Respect: It’s On All Of Us on [email protected]
Recognise. Respond. Refer
- Recognise the signs of personal violence and disrespectful behaviour
- Respond with empathy to a disclosure
- Refer to support and reporting services at, or external to, the University.
Staff and Students can complete Recognise. Respond. Refer. online via [email protected]
MATE Bystander Program – MATE stands for: Motivating Action Through Empowerment. It’s a program designed to motivate you to take action by empowering you with knowledge to ensure we know and can recognise, the signs of a healthy, respectful and equal relationship.
Staff and students should complete the MATE Bystander Program on [email protected].
Resources
Tip sheets and quick guides
- Quick Guide to Responding to Disclosures
- Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTIQ+ Relationships
- Supporting Staff to Support Students – Managers quick guide
Counsellor, Violence Response & Prevention – specialising in providing support to students who have been affected by personal violence. The Counsellor, Violence Response & Prevention provides priority appointments via phone 5552 9600 (Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm) or email [email protected].
SASH Responder Network – launched in 2020, the SASH Responder Network is a group of staff from across the University who are trained to receive disclosures with empathy and compassion and provide information about the options available.