Evidence-Based Strategies for Your Active Bystander Program: Focus on Student-Athletes
Active Bystanderism is a primary strategy to prevent sexual violence and promote sexual respect, particularly with student-athletes, even as research support is limited and programs are rarely designed to be population-specific or scaffolded over time. In this interactive session, we'll discuss - and practice - incorporating key behavioral health theories into active bystander programs and specifically designing your workshops with student-athletes in mind, utilizing strategies that engage this population while minimizing potential resistance.
Learning Outcomes
1. Identify opportunities to create buy-in and decrease resistance from student-athletes as a population/key audience
2. Apply key behavioral health theories of the health belief model and motivational interviewing to the design, facilitation, and assessment of active bystander training
3. Simulate participation of student-athletes in a workshop through role play in scenario-based work and observe theory-based debrief strategies
Jennifer Jacobsen
Executive Director of Health & Well-Being
Macalester College
Jen Jacobsen, MA MPH serves as the Executive Director of Health and Wellness at Macalester College; previously, she was in the role of Director of Health Promotion and Sexual Respect. Prior to this, she was the Director of Wellness & Prevention and deputy Title IX coordinator at Grinnell College for 11 years and also spent 18 years coaching Division III men’s and women’s track & field and cross country. Jen has participated in the NCAA Sexual Assault Task Force, the NCAA Step UP! advisory board (authoring parts of the curriculum), the ACHA campus safety coalition (co-authoring the 2018 toolkit Addressing Sexual and Relationship Violence) and currently serves on NASPA’s Culture of Respect. Jen’s primary areas of research and practice include active bystanderism; she authored the chapter “The Role of Active Bystander Training within a Comprehensive Prevention Framework” in M.D. Cimini and E.M. Rivera’s 2018 book Promoting Behavioral Health and Reducing Risk Among College Students: A Comprehensive Approach. Jen often works the intersection of student affairs and athletics and leverages a public health approach to her work on college campuses. Jen is currently pursuing a DrPH at Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in Implementation Science and an emphasis on college student behavioral health, including substance use, sexual respect, and mental health.
Paige Olowu
DOJ OVW Grant Project Director
Macalester College
Paige is the Project Director for the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women grant awarded to Macalester in 2021. In this role, she leads all grant programs and activities, including the campus Action Group for Sexual Respect, coordinating advocates from local community organizations in their on-campus work, and facilitating 25+ active bystander workshops each year, including for all varsity athletics teams. Paige also serves as an assistant track & Field coach at Macalester. She graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in economics and loves to stay active.
Continuing Education Credits
CSAED
This session counts for 1.0 CSAEd-CORE credit
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No partial credit will be rewarded.
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1 Credit is available for attending the live session or viewing the on-demand recording.
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NBCC
This session counts for 1 NBCC credit
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