T HE P ILLAR A Newsletter for Parents and Families Longwood University
Volume 6 Issue 3
STEP UP! EDUCATING STUDENTS ON BYSTANDER TRAINING
BY SARAH LOTH ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT CONDUCT AND INTEGRITY
As part of New Lancer Days this year all new will help their peers. Many students will continue students will be taking part in Step Up! Bystander this conversation into their LSEM classes as well, Intervention Program. This program is designed to where they will be able to explore more in depth encourage students to not only take into their personal reasons for wanting to Step UP! in consideration the situations they are putting situations where others may be afraid too. themselves in, but to also be an active bystander in Just because they are new, does not mean they what is going on around them as well. do not have a voice and it is our hope that our Step Up! was developed by the University of incoming class will help lead the way in continuing Arizona C.A.T.S. Life Skills Program, along with to create an environment where everyone feels the National Collegiate Athletic Association supported in Stepping Up for one another in times of (NCAA) in response to a survey that revealed that need. 90% of the problems students encountered on For more information on this program please campus could have been avoided with intervention visit: http://stepupprogram.org/about/ (About Step Up!). Longwood prides itself on developing Citizen Leaders and Step Up! is the perfect complement to that, in that it encourages students to See Something. Say Something. on behalf of their fellow Lancers. Students will learn skills for intervening successfully using the 5 Decision Making Steps, and the S.E.E. Model (Safe; Early; Effective). The most important piece of this training though is also teaching students to recognize within themselves their own limits as an active bystander and to be able to identify resources on campus that
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