OurTurn Action Plan Summary 7
The original document6 provides guidelines for student unions and groups to take steps to:
Prevent sexual violence and eliminate rape culture on our campuses Support survivors and create a culture of survivorcentrism in our programs and institutions Advocate for policy and legislative reforms at the campus, local, provincial, and national levels
It then outlines twenty actionable steps student groups could adopt and implement on their own campuses as needed. These steps include: 1. Passing a motion acknowledging the existence of, and committing to eliminating, rape culture on campus; 2. Holding general and closed community consultation meetings; 3. Conducting a student campus sexual violence survey; 4. Developing or adopting a peer-to-peer sexual violence prevention and support training program and mandating members of campus clubs or student union committees/councils to complete the training; 5. Attending and supporting community events related to sexual violence and genderbased violence; 6. Raising awareness of community support resources; 7. Advocating for the addition of sexual violence academic accommodations to course syllabi; 8. Using the OurTurn Campus Sexual Violence Scorecard to grade campus sexual violence policies and identify what needs amending; 9. Advocating for policy reforms at the campus level using the Our Turn Advocacy Guide; 10. Collaborating with other student unions and organizations to advocate for legislative reform at the provincial and federal levels. The publishing of the Action Plan was the beginning of a unified grassroots response to campus sexual violence from student groups that stretched beyond boundaries, regional perspectives and biases, and student political affiliations.