The 5 Ds
You check-in with someone after an incident.
What is Delay?
You are excited and very sure about your decision.
What is Enthusiastic?
You can't move but you remain highly alert.
What is Freeze?
The NUS team that survivors can talk to for support after an assault.
What is the NUS Care Unit?
Empathetically listening to their experience.
What is Understanding?
You enlist help from someone else.
What is Delegate?
You change your mind.
What is Reversible?
You try to make them happy so things don't get worse.
What is Fawn?
A confidential resource.
What is Counselling?
You control your reactions.
What is Don't Judge?
You take pictures, videos, or write down notes of an incident to provide to the victim afterwards.
What is Document?
You don't feel any obligation.
What is Freely Given?
You run away or attack back (verbally or physically).
What is Fight?
What is the Sexual Assault Care Centre?
You let them speak without asking for more info or clarity.
What is Interrupting?
You drop something on the ground and make a loud noise.
What is Distract?
You agree to one thing, but not the other thing.
What is Specific?
Run away!
What is Flight?
The phone based support system of AWARE.
What is the AWARE Women's Helpline?
You are aware of your physical responses.
What is Body Language?
You firmly tell the perpetrator that what they're doing is not okay.
What is Direct?
You understand what is happening.
What is Informed?
Similar to Freeze but with a shutdown physically and mentally.
What is Flop?
The name of the AWARE workshop to train people on how to support survivors.
What is the Sexual Assault First Responder Training?
You connect with them ocularly.
What is Look Them in the Eye?