Bystander Intervention Education

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Bystander Intervention Education

• Speak Up, Get Help, JUST ACT.

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Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with SAEM bystander education
  initiative.
• Uncover personal barriers to intervening.
• Develop basic skills in bystander intervention.

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What is a Bystander?

• Bystander
• Is a part of a situation by chance.
• They may be a witness to something, and they may
  or may not act.

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Bystander Effect

• Phenomenon in which someone is less likely to
  intervene in a problem situation when others are
  present.
• People act
• 80 of the time when alone
• 20 of the time when others are present

Dont wait for someone else to act Its your
responsibility.
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Steps to Intervention

• Notice the event
• Consider whether the situation demands your
  action
• Decide if you have a responsibility to act
• Choose what form of assistance to use
• Understand how to implement the choice safely

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Why Not Get Involved

• There may be social impact
• Not knowing what to do
• In other peoples business

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Why Do Get Involved

• Others have done it for you
• Just reacted
• Want someone to do it for you

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Types of Interventions

• Say something to a friend
• Interrupt the situation
• Comment on a facebook status
• Distract from the situation
• Redirect
• Tell a CA or Hall Director
• Call the police
• Tell someone of authority

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Multiple Points of Entry

• There are clues that something may be getting out
  of hand, before violence occurs.
• Intervening before imminent harm can reduce
  likelihood of violence.
• Intervene early and often.

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Scenarios
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Move-In Day

• You are helping with move-in day at the residence
  halls. You are loading up a golf cart when you
  see a parent start to hit a younger sibling of
  one of our new students. What do you do?

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Homecoming

• You are working the homecoming tailgate and you
  see a young lady (NIU student) and her mom are
  very intoxicated. They are stumbling and one of
  them gets sick between two parked cars. You
  bring this to the attention of a nearby police
  officer. They choose to ignore it. What do you do?

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Holiday Party

• You are at the holiday party when a colleague
  from another office starts to make jokes about
  some of the other people in the division. One of
  these comments is That Steve Lux, he has been
  here forever, how can he connect with students?
  What do you do?

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Bus Turnaround

• You are walking out of the Student Center when
  you see two students in a physical altercation.
  There are several other students around, who look
  like they might also become involved. What do you
  do?

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Resources

• Victim advocacy services- Womens Resource Center
  
• Ombudsperson
• Community Standards Student Conduct
• Counseling Student Development Center
• Residence hall Staff
• University Police
• Health Enhancement
• Tip-line 753-TIPS

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Final Thought

• This is a story about four people named
  Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There
  was an important job to be done and Everybody was
  sure that Somebody would do it.
• Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
• Somebody got angry about that, because it was
  Everybodys job.
• Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody
  realized that Everybody wouldnt do it.
• It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when
  Nobody did what Anybody could have done.