What You Have to Know about Violence Prevention
NEW INCOMING STUDENTS! (Please read entire page by scrolling down).
We want to promote healthy and safe relationships during your time here, and we can all play our part. Therefore, Cal is part of a UC system-wide effort to provide education, prevention and response to the issues of Sexual Assault, Dating and Relationship Violence, and Stalking. Addressing these issues is a part of the University’s commitment to providing you with an inspiring, healthy, and safe learning environment. A key component of this safe learning environment is an atmosphere free of violence, coercion, and fear.
Read student commitments to prevent campus and community violence here.
Please also check out - http://ucempowerU.berkeley.edu - a new UC Systemwide website dedicated to reducing sexual assault, dating and relationship violence, and stalking.
As part of our commitment, Cal has an In-Person Violence Prevention Education Requirement. You have until the end of your first semester to complete this. Please follow these three (3) steps:
STEP 1 First, please review the Keep It Real informational brochure here by Feb. 15, 2012.
STEP 2 Second, please attend an in-person violence prevention education session (listed below) by the end of your first semester. Bring your Cal1Card to swipe for attendance. The bulk of sessions will be held during Jan 9- Feb. 29 (please note extended date).
Updated 4/23/12 - scroll down to see listings for sessions that will fulfill the requirement
Th Apr 26, 2012
3:30-5:00pm, Gender Equity Resource Center*, 202 Chavez (capacity:35) - RSVP here
Tu May 1, 2012
10:00-11:30am, Multicultural Community Center (MCC), 200 MLK Student Union – RSVP here
* Location may change if we exceed capacity
If you cannot make the sessions above, please come back to this page. We will be offering sessions in the summer starting in June 2012.
STEP 3 Third, please bookmark this page http://geneq.berkeley.edu/empowerU so you can come back to this site for resources and ways to get involved. We can all do our part in creating a Cal community free of violence, harassment and intimidation! Learn about campus resources, community resources, and national resources!
For information on support services and how to get involved in the preventing violence at Cal, please contact empowerU@berkeley.edu.
Examples include (this list is not exhaustive):
· Take Back the Night (Tuesdays, 6-7pm, 108 Wheeler Hall)
· helping out with EmpowerU Sessions (email empowerU@berkeley.edu)
· Bears that Care Bystander Intervention (forthcoming)
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