Senior seminar students in the human services program took on group projects where they researched different topics about sexual assault and created YouTube videos on their findings. The students set up a table outside the cafeteria to screen their videos to educate campus about sexual assault awareness.
"Our project is basically on sexual assault and bystanders and how they can make a really big impact on victims' lives by speaking up for them when they don't have the courage to do so themselves," said Mayra Gallo, senior and criminal justice major. "We've been working on this for about five weeks and it was really hard to make a video on my own but a good learning experience."
"We did alcohol and sexual assault and focused primarily on college women," said Savanna Lightfoot, senior and human services major. "Our focus was how alcohol can increase your risk of being sexually assaulted."
A bystander training presentation also took placed to educate campus about sexual assault and how to prevent it.
"[We're] trying to engage people in the Lynn community to be part of prevention," said Dr. Levenson, head of the human services department.
"This really is an issue for our community and we want to educate not just young women but young men as well as to what sexual assault means, how they can recognize inappropriate sexual contact or comments and how everyone can take responsibility for stepping in and promoting healthy and respectful sexual behaviors on campus and in our community," added Levenson.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month takes place all April and information about activities can be found around campus.
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