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For more information about training offered by CARE, please visit health.umd.edu/CARE.

CARE Peer Educators, Step UP! Educators, and staff members lead interactive educational workshops. These workshops are available to classrooms, student organizations, Greek organizations, residence halls, and departments, off-campus establishments, and more.

The C Word is Consent: This workshop deconstructs common rape myths and establishes a comprehensive understanding of consent, coercion, and victim-blaming. 

Don’t Turn Red Flags Pink: Audience members learn to define relationship violence, identify elements of power and control, and understand the cycle of violence. Attendees will leave this workshop with a better understanding of how to support loved ones who are impacted by relationship violence. 

Step UP! Bystander Intervention Training: Step UP! empowers audience members with the awareness skills and tools to help prevent harmful situations from occurring or escalating on our campus.

CARE 101: This presentation covers the role and purpose of CARE, the definition of power-based violence, confidential versus non-confidential resources, and how to contact our office. CARE 101 presentations can last either 15 or 30 minutes. 30-minute presentations include an overview of the best practices for responding to a survivor's disclosure of power-based violence.

How to Help a Survivor: This 45-minute presentation covers how disclosures of power-based violence may present, strategies for responding to a disclosure, and more in-depth information about various forms of power-based violence. 

For more information about training offered by OCRSM, please visit ocrsm.umd.edu/training/. 

In-Person Presentations and Trainings 

The OCRSM conducts compliance training presentations, both in person and virtually, on a variety of topics for offices, departments, and student groups across campus. Click on the dropdown menu below to view a list of OCRSM's compliance training and presentation topics. 

Compliance Training & Presentation Topics [Drop-down menu]

• General OCRSM Overview
• Title IX Policy and Procedures + Prohibited Conduct
• Non-Discrimination Policy and Procedures + Prohibited Conduct
• Responsible University Employee (RUE) Reporting Responsibilities
• How to Report and Access Resources
• How to Respond to a Disclosure
• Supportive Measures Overview
• Pregnancy and Title IX
• On-Campus and Off-Campus Resources for Students and Staff/Faculty 
• Best Practices for TAs, GAs, and Others
• History and Updates on Title IX Policy
• Other topics upon request

The OCRSM offers workshops on the topics below. Please visit OCRSM's OneLove Workshop Training page for a description of the below workshops.

• Recognizing Healthy & Unhealthy Signs in Relationships 
• The Isms of the Workplace
• Self Love Workshop
• Boundary Setting & the 10 Signs
• Practicing Open Communication 
• Behind the Post Workshop (Social Media Safety)
• Love Languages & Safety Planning
• Escalation Workshop
• Others upon request and approval. 

Please visit OCRSM's Training & Workshops page to learn more about availability training and workshops, as well as to request an upcoming workshop! For questions regarding the live training available, you may directly contact Alejandra K. Galarce Diaz, Training Manager for Policy and Prevention (agalarce@umd.edu) in the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct. 

Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduate Students

"Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduate Students" is an online sexual misconduct training course assigned to all first-year and transfer students at the beginning of their first and second semesters. This course is designed to help ensure that all incoming undergraduate students learn more about topics related to Title IX, civil rights, and the rights and resources available to them. This course also engages undergraduate students in fostering healthy relationships and prepares them to recognize and respond to sexual assault and harassment when it occurs.

Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate Students

"Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate Students" is an online sexual misconduct training course that informs graduate students of the non-discrimination and sexual misconduct policies at the University of Maryland. In addition, this course is intended to help students learn more about topics related to Title IX, civil rights, and the rights and resources available to all graduate students. All incoming graduate students are required to complete this online training module during their first semester on campus. Graduate student training also covers reporting obligations for Graduate Assistants as Responsible University Employees (RUEs).

Preventing Harassment and Discrimination with Title IX / Clery Act

"Preventing Harassment and Discrimination with Title IX / Clery Act" is a required online training program designed for non-supervisory employees, supervisory employees, and faculty, and assists in complying with harassment prevention training laws and best practices. The course employs evidence-based best practices that aim to create a healthy and inclusive workplace culture. This course includes a section specific to requirements under Clery Act and Title IX. 

It is the responsibility of departments with non-computer based staff members (i.e., employees who do not use computers at work and who may not have a University email address) and employees who do not speak English to ensure that these employees are aware of and receive the training in a timely manner.

For more information about training offered by DFSL, please contact dfslsap@umd.edu.

Ten Terp Plan for Sexual Assault Prevention

This program is a 7-week facilitated group dialogue that offers the opportunity to explore how to engage in bystander intervention, how to support victim/survivors of sexual violence, and deep-rooted beliefs and attitudes that make sexual violence such a commonplace part of society in general and Greek life in particular. Each meeting is approximately 60 minutes long and allows chapters to engage in important discussions within their chapters or across councils. 

Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Prevention Chapter Expectation

Since 2015, the department made the move to require all chapters to complete a Sexual Violence Prevention & Awareness program to meet chapter expectations.  Students may develop their own program, collaborate with another student organization, bring an outside speaker, or utilize the peer education program in CARE to Stop Violence (a part of the University Health Center). Groups may also use the Ten Terp Plan for Sexual Assault Prevention to fulfill this requirement if the Plan members engage the broader chapter in a conversation or presentation. In order to complete this expectation, chapters must meet at least one of the learning outcomes.

Pre-Homecoming/ Workshops

Each semester, the Interfraternity Council (IFC) and Panhellenic Council (PHA), in collaboration with DFSL and CARE, require chapters participating in Homecoming or Spring Fest to have a workshop on sexual violence prevention. Prior to engaging in week-long events including multiple socials, the goal of these workshops is to reinforce knowledge and skills that enable our chapters to socialize together safely. The main topics covered include consent, bystander intervention, alcohol and hook-up culture. This program is typically 60 minutes long and requires full A/V technology to showcase the Powerpoint.

Chapter Liaison Training Program

This mandatory program is designed to ensure that at least one member per chapter is very cognizant of campus resources. The training is conducted each semester and is approximately 120 minutes long. Throughout the two hours, liaisons learn more about campus resources and how to define sexual assault, gain a better understanding of where to report sexual misconduct, develop a general understanding of power-based violence and briefly discuss how to deal with disclosures. This program requires full A/V technology to showcase the Powerpoint. 

Sexual Violence Prevention Internship

Each semester, DFSL selects two or three undergraduates to become Sexual Violence Prevention interns, who then support and expand our sexual violence prevention programming efforts. As part of the newly designed curriculum, interns will learn about power-based violence through reading and discussion, and will develop their own leadership style and skills to facilitate the Ten Terp Plan on Sexual Assault Prevention. This three-credit internship is designed for undergraduates who have earned at least 56 credits and is open to all UMD students, not just affiliated students. Previous programs designed by former interns include Chapter Liaison Training, Healthy Relationships and Tearing Down Gender Roles. 

For more information about training offered by Athletics, please contact mboryes@umd.edu.

Coach and Staff Education

Every fall in September at ICA All-Staff meeting, the Title IX Officer conducts a presentation about the University's Sexual Misconduct Policy and reporting obligations of ICA coaches and staff. In the spring, the Title IX Officer presents at a Head Coaches meeting to provide a reminder about reporting obligations and to address questions. 

Student-Athlete Education

CARE staff conducts annual sexual misconduct and violence prevention workshops with each athletic team.

Summer Bridge 

CARE Staff conducts sexual misconduct and violence prevention training with first-year student-athletes

For more information about training offered by One Love UM, please contact umcponelove@gmail.com or connect with the group via TerpLink!

One Love at the University of Maryland is just one chapter out of many that support the national One Love Foundation. The organization was founded in 2010 in honor of Yeardley Love, who grew up in Towson, Maryland, and was killed as a result of domestic violence. Yeardley’s family created this foundation to provide every individual with the knowledge and tools necessary to engage in all types of healthy relationships— personal, platonic, romantic, and professional. 

For more information on SGA Sexual Misconduct Prevention, please contact sgasmp@umd.edu.

Reclaim the Red Event

This event occurs in the Spring semester and it discusses the Red Zone and consent, as well as features a variety of resources, activities, and informational tables from different organizations focused on sexual health and wellness.