SAFE Center Services & Resources
470-606-208
What is the Crisis Line?
This is the SAFE Center Crisis Line that available to call 24/7 or to text during business hours Monday - Friday.
Domestic violence only happens in married or cohabiting couples.
What is a MYTH?
Domestic violence can happen in current or former romantic relationships, marriages, dating partnerships, or among family and household members.
A partner repeatedly checks your location and gets angry when you do not reply right away.
What is a Red Flag?
Frequent tracking and demands for constat availability can be signs of coercive control.
What is a bystander?
Who is Someone who witnesses or becomes aware of a potentially harmful situation and has an opportunity to help?
Bystander intervention means taking safe, appropriate action rather than ignoring warning signs.
This a free, voluntary, informed, and ongoing choice given without pressure, manipulation or intoxication.
What is CONSENT?
Name one type of experience the SAFE Center supports students through.
What is Sexual Assault, dating/violence, stalking, or other crime victimizations.
Domestic violence is always physical.
What is a MYTH?
Abuse doesn't have to leave physical marks to be harmful. Recognizing the different forms of domestic violence is essential to identifying unhealthy and abusive relationships.
Your partner celebrates your friendships and acheivements and supports your goals.
What is a Green Flag?
Support for independence, personal identity, and outside relationships is a sign of respect.
What are the 5 D's of bystander intervention?
These five strategies give students different ways to intervene based on their comfort level and the safety of the situation.
True or False
Agreeing to a kiss means agreeing to everything that follows.
What is FALSE?
Consent to one activity is not consent to another. Always respect boundaries and never assume consent!
True or False: The SAFE Center offers advocacy and medical forensic examinations.
What is TRUE?
The SAFE Center is a supportive resource where survivors can receive care, explore their options, and make their own decisions about what happens next.
If someone does not report an assault immediately, it probably did not happen.
What is MYTH?
There are many reasons a survivor ay delay or choose not to report, including fear, safety, trauma, or privacy.
Your Partner takes tome to get to know you and build a strong, respectful, and considerate relationship.
What is a Green Flag?
Healthy relationships are built on trust, respect and patience. A caring partner respects your boundaries and allows that relationship to grow naturally.
You notice someone at a party looking uncomfortable while another person repeatedly tries to get them to leave together. What is one way you could intervene?
What is Create a distraction, check in with the person, or ask a friend or event staff member for help?
A simple interruption, such as asking the person to join your group, can create an opportunity for them to leave the situation safely.
Someone who is incapacitated because of drugs and/or alcohol can give consent
What is FALSE?
Consent requires the ability to make a clear, informed, and voluntary decision. If someone is incapacitated, they cannot consent.
A student wants to learn their options without first making a police report. Can they contact the SAFE Center?
What is Yes?
Students can seek confidential advocacy and discuss options. Staff can explain confidentiality boundaries and available reporting paths.
Stalking can include repeated unwanted digital contact or monitoring.
What is FACT?
Stalking may involve repeated unwanted messages, tracking, or other conduct that causes fear or substantial emotional distress.
Your partner makes jokes that make you feel uncomfortable in front of other people.
What is a Red Flag?
A joke isn't harmless if it hurts someone. Healthy partners respect each other's feelings and boundaries, even when joking.
True or False: To be an active bystander, you must confront the person causing harm directly.
What is FALSE?
Direct confrontation is only one option. You can distract, delegate, check in afterward, or seek help. Prioritize your own safety and the safety of others.
Your partner initially agreed but then said "Stop". You should ___
What is immediately stop.
Consent is never permanent. Everyone has the right at any point, and respecting that decision is essential to a healthy relationship.
How can a KSU student connect with the SAFE Center, including, including after hours?
What is Call or text (470)-606-2081 (24/7 crisis/text line)? They can also email safecenter@kennesaw.edu or visit kennesaw.edu/safe-center. For immediate danger, call 911.
The person harmed is responsible for preventing abuse by leaving sooner.
What is MYTH?
Responsibility for abusive behavior belongs to the person choosing to abuse. Leaving can be complicated and sometimes dangerous.
Your partner is open and honest when communicating to solve a problem instead of arguing.
What is a Green Flag?
Healthy relationships involve respect, honesty, and open communication. It's not about never disagreeing, but about handling disagreements in a healthy and respectful way.
You see a friend trying to take someone who appears heavily intoxicated to a private room. What should you do?
What is Intervene safely by interrupting, checking on the intoxicated person, and getting help from trusted friends, event staff, or emergency services when needed?
Someone who is incapacitated cannot give consent. Preventing an unsafe situation and seeking appropriate help can make a meaningful difference.
It means looking for an active, positive "yes" rather than just the absence of a "no". It can be checked and reverified as things progress.
What is ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT?
Consent is about and active willing "yes", not just the absence of a "no". When in doubt, ask!