RVCC staff member and 3 first-year students at Harvey Mudd College participating in a bystander intervention activity during a orientation presentation. They are holding up posters with responses for how they'd intervene during a moment of harm.
A group of peer educators attending a violence prevention capacity building training on how they can motivate their peers to end sexual violence.
A group of young people posing after attending a virtual workshop on how to motivate their peers to end sexual violence.
A group of student athletes brainstorming in groups how to centralize violence prevention within their teams.

Creative Preventionist Peer Education Training + Planning Workbook

Want your students to bring in crowds to their outreach table, get their peers to show up to programming, change behaviors, and make new norms stick? We can help! This 3-layer peer education training is grounded in our Creative Preventionist Model, where your students will learn how to Spark interest, Shift behaviors, and make new norms Stick. Your students will leave with a mapped-out engagement and programming plan to implement throughout the year.

Duration: 4.5 hours. Cost: $6,000 + travel costs. In-person recommended. Virtual available.‍ ‍

Training Layers:

Spark: How to draw in your peers and get them excited to engage with your program. Covers tabling, social media engagement, and increasing program attendance.

Shift: How to build skills and motivate your peers to take action. Covers how to facilitate and design workshops that promote behavior change.

Stick: How to sustain new behaviors and make prevention the default. Covers designing catchy values-based campaigns and messaging, and embedding prevention within social and environmental spaces.

Are your students new to the Creative Preventionist Model? We recommend starting with the full training above. It costs less than three standalone workshops, and your students leave with a full engagement plan instead of a single skill. Already well-versed in the model or want support in one specific area? Pick the topic and skill your students need the most below:

Other Peer Education Skill-Building Workshops

Duration: 1.5 hours. Cost: $2,500 + travel costs, if applicable.

How to Facilitate Memorable Workshops That Aren’t Boring!

No one wants to sit through a content-heavy lecture they end up zoning out on. It's easy to lose a room, but you can change that for yours! You'll learn strategies to hold people's attention and design workshops folks talk about after and tell their friends about. This includes crafting messaging that connects to what people care about, facilitating activities people will be curious about, and providing them with take-home tools they’ll want to use later.

Ahh What Do I Say? How to Call In and Address Sticky Situations in Your Prevention Work

“I mean, If they were drinking, that's kind of on them, right?" "People often lie. There’s many false reports of rape." Comments like these can catch you off guard, and it's not always easy to know what to say. In this workshop, you'll learn how to call people in with empathy and meet them where they are in their (un)learning process. You'll leave with go-to responses to scenarios that may come up so the next sticky moment feels less scary.

Tools for Centralizing Marginalized Communities in Your Prevention Work

Discover how people’s identities, such as race, gender identity, sexuality and class intersect to shape their unique lived experiences, including those of survivors of sexual violence. Through engaging discussions, interactive activities, and real-life examples, this workshop will provide you with strategies to effectively apply intersectionality in your violence prevention efforts.

Pop-Up Prevention: How to Plan Fun Pop-Up Fairs for SAAM & DVAM.

Pop-up fairs are the perfect way to spark interest in your program and share helpful resources! In this workshop, you'll learn how to design a fair students won't want to miss, from the timing, location and layout to the interactive activities and merch that pull people in. You'll leave with a vision and plan for your next SAAM or DVAM.

How to Develop Fun and Engaging Social Media Content Your Peers Will Share

Create the kind of content you and your friend would actually pause and look at! Learn what makes content contagious (hooks, trends, storytelling, humor) and design reels and posts your campus community will engage with and share. You'll leave with a content formula and your first prevention program posts drafted.

How to Develop Programming Your Peers Will Want To Go To

Students are busy and there’s a lot of priorities fighting for their attention. In this workshop, we'll explore how you can create programming that stands out and is tailored to the interests of the peers you're trying to reach. You'll learn how to lower the barriers that keep people from showing up and build the kind of interest and anticipation that makes an event feel worth it. You’ll leave with your next event mapped out.

  • "I reached out to RVCC so we could have them support my student employee training for this academic year. I loved working with RVCC because they were great with communication, had inclusive content and artwork and created a safe and welcoming space for our team. Our facilitator, Skye, did such a wonderful presentation. My staff later shared that they were so inspired from their time together and enjoyed learning from them."

    -Valara, Director of CARE, UC Merced

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If the cost presents any barriers to your organization, partial scholarships may be available. Please reach out with your budget so we can see what’s possible!