Consent Culture
An agreement to engage in sexual activity that must be voluntary, affirmative, conscious, specific, and ongoing.
What is consent?
A culture in which sexual violence is pervasive, and where prevalent social norms and values excuse, minimize, normalize, or encourage sexual violence.
What is rape culture?
The definition of sexual assault.
What is any form of sexual contact without voluntary consent?
A social-psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to intervene in an emergency and offer help to a victim when other people are present.
What is bystander effect?
Any experience that is extremely distressing, overwhelms a person’s current ability to cope and produces lasting psychological consequences.
What is trauma?
Two characteristics of a healthy relationship.
What is comfortable pace, honesty, respect, kindness, healthy conflict, trust, independence, equality, taking responsibility, or fun?
The percentage of sexual assault cases where the victim knows the person who assaulted them
What is 80 - 85%
The definition of sexual harassment
What is any unwanted sexual attention or communication that is offensive, intimidating, or humiliating, whether in visual, written, or verbal form?
Five methods of bystander intervention.
What are distract, direct, delegate, delay, and document?
Strategies that people use to manage trauma and stress
What are coping mechanisms?
A framework that seeks to recognize the socially supported system of mistreatment and exploitation of a group of individuals that exists in our society and attempts to mitigate its effects and equalize power imbalances in our communities.
What is anti-oppression?
The percentage of sexual assault reports made to the police that are found to be true.
What is 92-98%?
The definition of intimate partner violence
What is physical violence, sexual violence, psychological and emotional abuse, financial abuse, and stalking by a current or former intimate partner?
Safety tips, when shared in the spirit of prevention sexual violence, can have this effect (name 2).
What is (1) placing the lace onus on individuals to prevent other people from assaulting them; (2) Focusing on would-be victims changing their behavior rather than addressing perpetrator behaviour; (3) feeding into victim-blaming; (4) perpetuating myths and stereotypes about sexual assault; (5) make sexual violence seem inevitable; (6) don't address the root causes of sexual violence.
Four foundational support skills when responding to disclosures.
What are listening, believing, being survivor-centered, and exploring options?
The ability to accept and respond to someone's 'no' in a healthy and respectful way.
What is rejection resilience?
The person or object responsible for alcohol-facilitated sexual assaults.
Who is the person who sexually assaulted another person?
The definition of stalking/criminal harassment
What is causing someone fear by repeatedly following, contacting, watching, harassing and/or threatening that person, either directly or through someone the victim knows?
Two protective factors, which may lessen the likelihood of sexual violence victimization or perpetration either directly or by buffering against risk.
What is (1) Community support/connectedness, Coordination of resources and services among community agencies, (2) Access to mental health and substance abuse services, (3) Connection/commitment to school, (4) Connection with a caring adult, (5) Affiliation with pro-social peers, (6) Emotional health and connectedness, (7) Empathy and concern for how one’s actions affect others, (8) Healthy conflict-management role-modeled by parental figures, (9) Access to mental health and substance abuse services
A support skill that involves communicating that a thought, feeling, belief or experience is shared or common.
What is normalizing?
A continuous, active, and voluntary process of being responsible to yourself and those around you for your choices, and the consequences of your choices
What is accountability?
Someone’s decision to leave or stay in an abusive relationship is incredibly complex and can be made very difficult by these barriers (name 3).
What are shame, fear of greater injury or death, degraded self-esteem, love or concern for the person abusing them, fear that they won’t be believed, lack of accessibility, isolation in rural areas, lack of awareness of available resources, undermined emotionally, mentally, and financially, or the fact that the risk of violence increases immediately after a person leaves an abusive relationship?
The definition of technology-facilitated sexual violence.
What is a range of unwanted, harmful, sexualized behaviors that are carried out using technology?
A public health framework used to understand the interplay of factors that create risk for violence and factors that protect against violence.
What is the socio-ecological model?
Refers to our capacity to recover and our ability to find our way back to ourselves after experiencing something difficult or traumatic.
What is resilience?