Violence Intervention Assistant's Trainings

The VIA trainings are a "safe space" type training for issues of power-based interpersonal violence: sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking and sexual harassment. It is designed for, and presented by, undergraduate students. Participants learn:

• What sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking are
• The impact of these crimes and indicators that they have occurred 
• How to help someone who may have experience these crimes 
• What resources are available 
• Bystander Intervention skills like: 
• How to identify high risk situations 
• How to safely intervene and prevent violence from occurring 

For more information: http://www.health.umd.edu/node/841

To register, students just need to send their contact information and the training date they'd like to attend to sarppvia@health.umd.edu.