Over the last few years, the Green Dot program at the University of Wyoming has grown.
It has trained over 900 members of the UW community, according to Taylor Stuemky, the Associate Athletic Director for Internal Operations and Senior Woman Administrator at the University of Wyoming.
The Green Dot program is a bystander intervention program.
It seeks to train individuals on campus on how to properly respond in cases of sexual assault, stalker, or intimate-partner violence.
Individuals across all areas of campus, including faculty, staff, administrators, and students can all participate in the program by going through a 90-minute training session to learn more about how to identify individuals dealing with the violence of this nature. And to identify potentially dangerous situations and intervene accordingly.
Training sessions are catered to help students in situations that they might encounter both on and off-campus, while specific training sessions that are different from those provided for students are put together for faculty, staff, and administrators.
The “Green Dot” concept came from the idea that every time someone takes an action to be a positive bystander in a situation, fewer violent situations can occur on campus, therefore filling up the campus with green dots as opposed to red dots.
A map on which green dot actions have been highlighted can be found on the UW page for Green Dot.
