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SVPRO Programming Options:
- Tabling: SVPRO volunteers and staff are available to set up a table or booth to connect directly with your community, answer questions, and share our resources.
- Media Literacy: SVPRO Media Literacy programming uses content from television, film, advertisements, music videos, or other platforms, to discuss the impact and ramifications of the messaging we are exposed to throughout our lives.
- Panel Participation: An intersectional perspective on sexual violence can enrich panel discussions on relevant and related themes. SVPRO can make important connections between our work and a wide range of topics.
- Consulting (insight, guidance, or strategy): SVPRO staff are available to work alongside departments, teams, professors, student societies and other groups in determining their unique needs and offering insight, guidance, and strategy.
Social Ecological Model
We teach toward the world we want to live in.
The Social Ecological Model is used to examine social problems and identify solutions. The idea is that social change happens throughout each sphere of influence. To effectively create change as we seek to challenge and disrupt harmful narratives, we need to engage at all levels across the social-ecological model, establishing consistency in our shared understanding of the problem—in this case sexual and gender-based violence, harassment, and harm.
This involves everyone’s individual growth, the health of relationships, participation in communities, and transforming institutions and policies to center the safety and well-being of individuals and communities who have been oppressed.
SVPRO Strategy
Our strategy for prevention is multi-faceted. We work toward attitudinal, behavioural, social, and systemic change.
Our work is grounded in intersectional feminist, anti-oppression, strengths-based, and survivor-centred principles. We design our education and prevention programming using a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing from the fields of public health, education, psychology, social work, critical race studies, community planning, and public policy. This list is by no means exhaustive, but rather a sample of the influences we seek out to create programming that is relevant, effective, and new. We are committed to fresh and innovative programming that allows us to be responsive as we learn and grow.
SVPRO Prevention Education
We build our programs in-house so they fit our community. Our educational programming addresses the following:
- Primary Prevention
Addressing root causes through individual and cultural change. Topics include Media Literacy, Inequity and Power Dynamics, Receiving Feedback, and Intoxication Impact. - Secondary Prevention
Addressing incidents as they occur through upstander intervention. Topics include Upstander Intervention, Consent Culture, and Leadership & Organizational Culture. - Tertiary Prevention
Addressing trauma that has occurred through empathy building. Topics include Neurobiology of Trauma, Supporting Survivors, SVPR0, and UBC’s Sexual Misconduct Policy.