Dr. Lindsey Blumenstein, Justice faculty, recently attended a
Green Dot College Campus Training at
UAF sponsored by the UAF Green Dot Implementation/Steering Committee. This group is chaired by
UAF Chief of Police Keith Mallard and is working to launch the Green Dot program on the Fairbanks campus. Dr. Blumenstein has been invited to participate in the launch at UAF this spring.
The program prepares individuals to be Green Dot trainers in bystander intervention. Dr. Blumenstein is now qualified to give bystander intervention training and overview presentations about Green Dot. Her areas of research include violence on college campuses, violence against women, and intimate partner violence.
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Members of the UAF Green Dot Implementation/Steering Committee take a break
from the training for a photo. Dr. Blumenstein was invited to participate in the event.
She is in the top row, third from left. |
Green Dot is a national program that teaches violence prevention strategies. As described on its website, Green Dot is "a new way of thinking about and doing prevention ....[It] is about culture change - harnessing the power of individual choices to shift our current norms." Green Dot seeks to give people the skills to safely prevent and intervene in power-based personal violence situations. Scores of colleges across the country have launched the
Green Dot program on their campuses.
And communities throughout Alaska have also launched the Green Dot program to prevent violence. See more information about
Green Dot in Alaska and in
Anchorage.
