Be a Hoosier. Step Up! Bystander Intervention Program

1. Be a Hoosier. Step Up!Bystander Intervention Program Jackie Daniels, Laura Eads & Leslie Fasone March 26, 2012 Office of First Year Experience Conference

2. Step Up! IU The Indiana Promise I promise that: I will be ethical in my academic work. I will take personal responsibility for what I say and what I do. I will respect the dignity of others, treating them with civility and understanding.

3. Step Up! IU Bystander Intervention To me, the Indiana Promise means that I should be a responsible adult and always do the right thing, regardless of whether somebody is watching. It means that I should work hard, be responsible, and be respectful, because those three things are important in life. ~Jovanni Miramontes, Legal Studies Major

4. Step Up! IU Be a Hoosier. Step Up! University of Arizona Step Up! Video http://youtu.be/AWv1_cr2DoI

5. Step Up! IU What is Bystander Intervention? • The act of assisting someone (stranger or acquaintance) to prevent potential harm to an individual • Direct or Indirect • Emergency or Non-Emergency • Bystander Effect • What decreases the likelihood of bystander intervention?

6. Step Up! IU Continuum of Bystander Behavior

7. Step Up! IU IU Students & Intervening Be a Hoosier. Step Up!

8. Step Up! IU Bystander Intervention Programs • Researching Programs • Many programs are focused on sexual assault prevention and interpersonal violence prevention • Savants through OWA has a bystander intervention and sexual assault program available to student groups, classrooms, etc. • Interested in something more comprehensive • Include drinking too much, drug abuse, mental health, hazing and discrimination/mistreatment • Reviewed the literature • Contacted other universities about programs on campus • Discovered the Step Up! program from the University of Arizona

9. Step Up! IU Learning about IU Students • Program Development • Needs Assessment • Use of social norms for the program • Asked IU students questions in the following areas: • Depression/Anxiety/Stress • Problematic Eating/Over-Exercising • Alcohol Use • Drug Abuse • Hazing • Discrimination/Mistreatment/Harassment • Sexual Assault

10. Step Up! IU What Do You Think?

11. Step Up! IU What We Learned Behaviors IU students witness most often (few times a semester, weekly or daily): • 89% of IU students witness someone who has had too much to drink • 68% of IU students witness someone who seems to be struggling with depression/anxiety/stress • 52% of IU students witness someone who is abusing drug (including prescription drugs) IU students are most bothered when they witness the following: • 89% of IU students are bothered when they witness inappropriate sexual behavior • 80% of IU students are bothered when they witness someone who is mistreated or harassed based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. • 75% of IU students are bothered when they witness someone who is been mistreated, harassed, harmed emotionally or physically in order to join or maintain status in a group (Hazing)

12. Step Up! IU What We Learned Behaviors IU students witness most often and feel someone’s health and safety are in jeopardy (few times a semester, weekly or daily) • 66% when they witness someone who has had too much to drink • 46% when they witness someone who seems to be struggling with severe stress, depression, anxiety that is getting in the way of their everyday activities • 40% when they witness someone who has been abusing drugs (including prescription) IU students say that others are least likely to intervene in the following situations (never or seldom) • 60% when someone is being mistreated, harassed, harmed emotionally or physically in order to join or maintain status in a group (Hazing) • 55% when someone appears to be struggling with an eating disorder or is over-exercising • 52% when someone appears to be abusing drug

13. Step Up! IU What We Learned Intervention Skills: • Students feel they have the least amount of skills to intervene when they witness someone who is struggling with problematic eating/over-exercising (62%) or someone who is abusing drugs (69%) • Percentage of IU students that would like to learn intervention skills in the following areas: • Depression/Anxiety/Stress: 76% • Inappropriate Sexual Behavior: 75% • Problematic Eating/Over-exercising: 71% • Too Much to Drink: 69% • Drug Abuse: 69% • Discrimination/Mistreatment: 68% • Hazing: 67%

14. Step Up! IU Implications for Prevention & Intervention IU students are desensitized to alcohol: • Students witness someone who has dranktoo much the most often and feel their safety is in jeopardy the most, yet only 31% were “very” or “extremely bothered” by it. Inappropriate Sexual Behavior: • IU students are most bothered when they witness inappropriate sexual behavior (89%) • IU students witness inappropriate sexual behavior least often (22%)

15. Step Up! IU What Do We Do with this Information? Be a Hoosier. Step Up!

16. Step Up! IU Who? Partnership: • Student Life & Learning • Counseling & Psychological Services (CaPS) • Office of Alternative Screening and Intervention Services (OASIS) • Residence Hall Leadership • Athletic Department Target Audiences (pilot): • Student Organization/Greek Leadership • Residence Hall Association • Focus Group Volunteers • Athletes

17. Step Up! IU What? • 90 minute pilot trainings conducted in April and led by an IU staff member and a peer facilitator • Based on an established program at the University of Arizona (Step Up!)-primarily focused on athletes • Adapted to address IU’s specific needs and includes IU specific data from surveys and focus groups • Uses real time polling/data, relevant videos, quotes and statistics from IU students, and interactive scenarios to promote learning of concepts and facilitate social norming

18. Step Up! IU What? Topics/outline include: • Defining and exploring key concepts such as: • bystander effect • pluralistic ignorance • normative influence • spiral of silence • ambiguity • informational influence • obedience to authority • diffusion of responsibility • perspective taking • direct and indirect intervention styles • Social Norming – using the IU student data and the interactive polls

19. Step Up! IU What? Topics/outline include: • Exploring reasons why people do not intervene/help and providing strategies for overcoming those reasons • Laying out basic intervention models: • Five decision-making steps • S.E.E.-Safe, Early, Effective • Videos that educate on these topics • Ex: YeardlyLove ~ http://youtu.be/IuhGYFRtjgs

20. Step Up! IU Where…do we go from here? • Outreach and Marketing: • Expanding audiences and expanding facilitator group (eventually developing a peer advocates program) • Social Media/Messaging: • Twitter account, Facebook page • “Be a Hoosier. Step Up!” - Tagline • Emphasizing the IU Promise • Creating a “Culture of Care”as a part of every aspect of a student’s experience at IU

21. Step Up! IU Where…do we go from here? • Connecting students to resources including follow-up Sessions with a focus on specific topical areas: • Campus Resources: Counseling & Psychological Services, Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Middle Way House, Alcohol Drug Information Center, Office of Alternative Screening and Intervention Services, Anti-Harassment Incident Teams, Office of Women’s Affairs and others • Goals: To develop follow up trainings regarding specifically intervening in situations involving mental health, sexual assault, alcohol/drug use, and harassment or bias-motivated incidents • Evaluate and refine the program • Evaluating the pilot sessions this spring • Full program implementation in the fall

22. Step Up! IU What can you do? • Talk to students about stepping up and what it means to be a Hoosier and take the IU Promise • Become a facilitator or incorporate some of the key concepts into your trainings/classes/lessons • Request a Step Up! Training for the group of students you are working with stepupiu@indiana.edu (tentative) • Lead by example and keep the IU Promise by stepping up and saying/doing something when you are concerned about a student or colleague • Give us ideas about how to do this better! QUESTIONS/THOUGHTS/SUGGESTIONS???????