Through this video and a 60-minute interactive workshop, Cornell’s Intervene program addresses the following issues:
Stranger and friends intervened in a potential sexual assault
Friends intervened in a racial bias situation
Roommate intervened in a hazing situation
Acquaintance intervened w/ person feeling overwhelmed by academics
Classmates intervened in a sexual harassment/gender bias situation
Friend intervened in an intimate partner violence (emotional abuse) situation
Friends intervened in an alcohol emergency
Some of the unique features of this program are that it:
Uses an empowering and realistic approach to problem-solving
Illustrates how bystander intervention skills can be applied to multiple college health topics
Includes successful individual and group interventions
Depicts a range of severity (non-urgent, urgent, and emergency scenarios)
Explores the role of bystanders in situations as they develop over time
Addresses how to intervene across multiple kinds of relationships (friends, strangers, roommates, acquaintances, classmates, coworkers)
Is designed for college students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional students)
Underwent rigorous evaluation (with a randomized control trial) and the data shows both the video and workshop are effective
-Information from Cornell’s Intervene presentation at NASPA Conference March 2018