Available Programs & Workshops
A Guide to Campus Safety & Resources ⛑️
Campus Safety & Resources (also known as RISE 101) is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Physical wellness: Contraceptives and STIs
- Intellectual wellness: Alcohol ABV, BAC, safer drinking tips, how to spot alcohol poisoning, and how to help
- Social wellness: Consent, Title IX, and reporting
- Environmental wellness: Bystander intervention and tips for intervening
- Campus resources
A Guide to Managing Stress 🧠
Stress Management is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Stress: The stress curve, acute vs. chronic stress, the process of stress, Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, and stress in the brain
- Awareness: The wellness wheel, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
- Thoughts: Limited vs. growth mindset, affirmations, self-compassion, and gratitude
- Emotions: Emotions as stimuli, primary and secondary emotions, building a vocabulary using Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions, and empathy
- Behaviors: Reaction vs. response, mindfulness, coping mechanisms, and sleep
- Campus resources
Mental Health/Suicide Prevention is only offered as a standard (50-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Mental health considerations: Symptoms, definitions, and common treatments
- Support: Evidence-based strategies, self-care, coping mechanisms, and sleep
- Suicide prevention: Warning signs and how to help
- Campus resources
A Guide to Being an Active Bystander 👫
Bystander Intervention is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Bystanders: Active vs. passive bystanders, and diffusion of responsibility
- Intervening: Using RAIDERS acronym to intervene, and hazing
- Intervention within consent, alcohol, and/or drugs: Definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
- Resources: Reporting and campus resources
A Guide to Alcohol and Drug Education 🍻
Combined Alcohol and Other Drugs is offered as an extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Alcohol education: Destigmatizing substance use, ABV, BAC, risks, tolerance, alcohol biphasic curve, myopia
- Alcohol and consent: Definitions, revocation, and incapacitation
- Drug education: Categories and risks
- Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
- Campus resources
Alcohol Education is offered as both a condensed (30-minute) and standard (50-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Alcohol education: Destigmatizing substance use, ABV, BAC, risks, tolerance, alcohol biphasic curve, myopia
- Alcohol and consent: Definitions, revocation, and incapacitation
- Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
- Campus resources
Drug Education is offered as both a condensed (30-minute) and standard (50-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Stimulants: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
- Depressants: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
- Hallucinogens: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
- Cannabinoids: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
- Opioids: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
- Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
- Campus resources
A Guide to Consent 🔐
Consent Education is offered as both a standard (50-minute) and extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Consent: Importance, definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
- Unhealthy relationships: Signs of an unhealthy relationship and interpersonal violence definitions
- Reporting: Statistics, supportive measures, and methods
- Intervention: Bystander intervention using the RAIDERS acronym
- Support: Tips for supporting survivors and pitfalls to avoid
- Campus resources
A Guide to Sexual Health 🩺
Sexual Health is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.
This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:
- Understanding yourself and others: What makes you who you are and anatomy
- Consent: Definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
- Contraceptives: Methods, condoms, and TTU resources
- Sexual transmitted infections (STIs): Types and testing
- Emotional safety: Dating violence and signs of an unhealthy relationship
- Reporting: Statistics, importance, supportive measures, and methods
A Guide to Healthy Relationships by One Love Foundation 🤝
Healthy Relationships Workshops from the One Love Foundation are collaborative and interactive discussions featuring a training video in a variety of program lengths.
Types of One Love workshops offered:
Couplets is a 30-minute workshop built around eight short video clips (about 20 seconds each) that highlight both healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Recognize signs of healthy and unhealthy behaviors in friendships and dating relationships
- Apply these insights to real-life scenarios
- Compare and contrast similar behaviors to identify when healthy interactions may cross into unhealthy territory
MVP is a 50-minute workshop designed to challenge common stereotypes about dating and relationships.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Recognize unhealthy relationship behaviors
- Understand how these patterns can disrupt daily life
- Challenge traditional stereotypes surrounding relationship abuse
- Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship
Road Trip is a 50-minute workshop centered on a conversation between friends about romantic relationship behaviors.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Identify healthy and unhealthy behaviors in both friendships and romantic relationships
- Recognize that unhealthy patterns occur in friendships as well as romantic relationships
- Gain practical tools for initiating conversations with friends about unhealthy behaviors in their relationships
Behind the Post is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop that explores how social media can present misleading depictions of relationships and contribute to the difficulty of leaving an unhealthy one.
Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Learn to identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors
- Examine how social media can distort perceptions of relationships
- Understand the role social media can play in maintaining unhealthy dynamics
- Recognize that unhealthy behaviors can occur on both sides of a relationship, and that one partners actions do not justify abuse
- Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship
Love Labyrinth is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop exploring dating violence and the cycle of abuse.
Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Identify unhealthy relationship behaviors
- Recognize when unhealthy behaviors have crossed the line into abuse
- Understand the cycle of abuse
- Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy or abusive relationship
Escalation is offered as a 90-minute workshop that takes an in-depth look at dating violence and abuse. This workshop addresses the most severe forms of dating violence and includes a depiction of homicide within the context of an abusive relationship.
Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence and homicide.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Learn to recognize the warning signs of dating violence and abusive behaviors
- Explore how abuse can escalate over time
- Understand the emotional, social, and safety impacts of dating violence
- Gain tools and strategies for supporting someone who may be experiencing abuse
Fight Night is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop that explores group pressure to engage in unhealthy behaviors and how to support a friend in resisting that pressure.
Content Warning: This workshop contains depictions of violence.
During this workshop, participants will:
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- Learn to identify signs of unhealthy relationship behaviors in friendships
- Gain practical tools for helping a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship
- Identify resources to navigate and resist group pressure
To request a workshop or presentation, please visit our request page.
Risk Intervention & Safety Education
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Address
Drane Hall, Suite 247, Box 43099 -
Phone
806.742.2110 -
Email
rise@ttu.edu