Education and Prevention Programs
The Office of Institutional Equity works collaboratively with campus and community partners to offer Title IX related education and outreach. Below you can explore outreach and educational programming, information to request a live training, review required online training and learn more about getting involved.
University Programming
Presented by the Office of Institutional Equity
- Title IX: Resources and Reporting Options: Students will learn about creating safe communities that support their fellow students. Students learn strategies on how to support peers impacted by sexual harassment and sexual violence. These terms are defined and discussed so audience members leave with a greater familiarity of on and off-campus resource and reporting options. Please complete the OIE Educational Training Program Request Form.
Presented by the Dean of Students Office and Pack Leaders
- Protect Our Pack UConn’s university-wide bystander intervention program to educate our community regarding effective methods to intervene in a problem situation. Training programs are interactive and cover a variety of issues including sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, bias related situations, and others.
Presented by the UConn Police Department
- Members of UCPD possess a strong commitment to building a safer community through education. They offer a variety of programs that can be tailored to meet participants' educational needs. Programs include We Stand Up - Men Preventing Violence against Women, General Campus Safety and Risk Reduction Strategies, Self Defense Classes, and START a Conversation.
Presented by the Women's Center and/or Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP) Peer Facilitators
- Sexual Harassment Prevention and Education Training Attendees will learn to identify various forms of gender-based violence and examine conditions that promote and/or support sexual harassment.
- Intimate Partner Violence Overview will provide an overview of the dynamics of abusive relationships, explore the individual and systemic barriers to addressing intimate partner violence, and review the resources available on and off campus.
- Consent 201 is designed to expand on concepts first-year students were introduced to at Orientation, inviting participants to think critically about common patterns of communication around requests, negotiation, pressure, and coercion.
- Power and Control (in Relationships) invites participants to make connections between stereotypical gender expectations and unhealthy relationship patterns.
- Gender & Violence in the Media facilitates critical dialogue around mainstream media and its effects on gender socialization and rape-supportive culture.
- Greeks Against Sexual Assault (GASA) Workshop serves as a preview of the semester-long GASA experience offered every spring in partnership with the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life.
- UConn Men's Project goal is to train men who will then positively influence their peers by challenging social norms that promote gender-based violence; understanding their connection to survivors of gender-based violence; and role modeling effective bystander interventions. The weekly meetings will focus on topics related to gender socialization, masculinities, social justice and gender-based violence. The program is supported by the UConn Women’s Center and the Asian American Cultural Center.
Presented by Student Health and Wellness
- gloveBOX is Student Health and Wellness' safer-sex supply delivery service. Students can order safer-sex supplies, including condoms, lubrication, and dental dams, to have delivered directly to their mailroom.
- The UConn Sexperts' mission is to promote positive and responsible sexual health to the UConn students; respecting people’s individual choices and creating awareness of sexual health issues that include both on and off campus resources.
Request a Live Training
UConn's Office of Institutional Equity Offers education and training services to all members of the University from all campuses on a range of topics, including Title IX related information. Sessions can also be tailored to meet the needs of specific participants or groups.
To request a training program from OIE, please use the OIE Educational Training Program Request form. For assistance feel free to call OIE at (860) 486-2943 or send an email to equity@uconn.edu.
Title IX Related Training
For the purposes of compliance with Section 106.45 of the Title IX Final Rules, this page includes training materials used to train Title IX Coordinators, investigators, decision-makers, and any person who facilitates an informal resolution process in Title IX compliance and practices as of 12-1-23 at the University of Connecticut.