What’s Your Green Dot?
Ending Violence One Green Dot at a Time
This past Winter Quarter interns of the Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) program launched a Green Dot awareness campaign on campus. Green Dot is about engaging students in bystander intervention to create a safe campus environment through the power of community.
Green dot provides a few methods of intervention, called the 3 D’s, which include:
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Direct: this is a very confrontational approach. Directly asking the potential victim if they are alright.