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10 THE COLLEGE'S ANNUAL SECURITY AND FIRE SAFETY REPORT 2022 tight to have been taken off by another person. Lastly, AVI organizes a Day to End Rape Culture, a large, expo-style event in which roughly 30 presenters host tables about different ways our society and culture subtly permit or encourage violence. At each table, attendees are challenged to learn about different topics and learn tangible skills to address them in our day-to-day lives. is event involves students, staff, and faculty from across campus and our community partners as presenters, attendees, and support staff. roughout a student's academic career, they will have many ongoing opportunities to engage in prevention programming. However, incoming students receive additional rounds of education. Prior to starting classes, incoming students are notified of a mandatory, online training about bystander intervention and provides an overview of Prohibitive Conduct under the college�s Sexual Harassment, Misconduct, & Discrimination Policy, as well as definitions for these acts according to New Jersey State Law. TCNJ uses a program called "U Got This!," which is offered by a vendor called Catharsis Productions. TCNJ uses the Green Dot Strategy as its bystander intervention program and the concepts discussed in the U Got is! Program align with other bystander intervention curriculum and provides the first dose of education prior to the students even beginning classes. During Welcome Week, incoming students attend a large presentation designed to build skill sets around bystander intervention, how to ask for consent and how to support survivors. In the first six weeks of the semester, student peer educators visit freshmen residence halls and provide one-hour trainings to each floor, teaching students how to identify situations that could lead to sexual violence and how to intervene safely. In the span of six weeks, incoming students receive three instances of violence prevention education. In addition to focusing on freshmen, AVI strategically works with other high-risk populations, such as varsity and sport club athletes and fraternities/sororities. In accordance with NCAA regulations, varsity and sport club athletes receive training on an annual basis. Sororities and fraternities are required to attend violence prevention programming throughout the year, as well, and often co-sponsor events to demonstrate investment across Greek Life. As part of their orientation training, Residential Education's Community Advisors, Orientation Leaders, and Ambassadors receive yearly training around how to respond to a disclosure of sexual violence, victim/survivors' rights and resources, and violence prevention strategies. All new employees receive training during their orientation meetings with Human Resources and are offered ongoing opportunities to complete an online training. Training, regardless of format, discusses the prevalence of these crimes on campus, why people perpetrate, federal requirements for campuses, the power of primary prevention, an overview of the college's policy definitions for forms of Prohibitive Conduct, including acts of sexual violence and discrimination, how to be an active bystander, Title IX, and what it means, reporting obligations, trauma-informed response, campus policies and resources, risk reduction strategies, and more. Risk Reduction Strategies Sexual violence is never the victim's fault. e tips outlined below are offered in the hope that recognizing patterns can help individuals reduce the risk of victimization and assault. Here at TCNJ, we believe no one can do everything, but everyone can do something. If you see a risky situation developing, you can use the three Ds to intervene safely. Direct interventions involve communicating with the person potentially causing harm or being harmed; Distract(ing) interventions involve breaking up the situation through causing a distraction (such as suggesting a new activity, spilling your drink); Delegate(d) interventions involve recruiting help/support from another person or resource (this could be a friend, a CA, host of the party, etc.). Reducing risk of nonconsensual acts: • If you have limits, make them known as early as possible. • Tell a sexual aggressor "NO" clearly and firmly. • Try to remove yourself from the physical presence of a sexual aggressor. • Find someone nearby and ask for help. • Take care of your friends and ask that they take care of you. A real friend will challenge you if you are questioning a decision. Respect them when they do. Reducing Risk of Committing Unwanted Sexual Acts If you find yourself in the position of being the initiator of sexual behavior, you owe respect to yourself and your potential partner. ese suggestions may help you to reduce your risk for being accused of sexual misconduct. • Clearly communicate your intentions to your sexual partner and give them a chance to clearly relate their intentions to you. • Understand and respect personal boundaries. • Don't make assumptions: • About consent. • About someone's sexual availability. • About whether someone is attracted to you. • About how far you can go or about whether your partner is physically and/or mentally able to consent. • If there are any questions or ambiguity, then you DO NOT have consent. • Mixed messages from your partner are a clear indication that you should stop, defuse any sexual tension, and communicate better. You may be misreading each other. Your partner may not have figured out how far they want to go with you yet. You must respect the timeline for sexual behaviors with which your partner is comfortable. • Don't take advantage of someone's drunkenness or drugged state, even if they did it to themselves. • Realize that your potential partner could be intimidated by you, or fearful. You may have a power advantage simply because of your gender, size, or position in a club or organization. Don't abuse that power. • Understand that consent to some form of sexual behavior does not automatically imply consent to any other forms of sexual behavior. • Silence and passivity cannot be interpreted as an indication of consent. • Read your potential partner carefully, paying attention to verbal and nonverbal communication and body language. e NCHERM Group/ATIXA. (2014). For more information on risk reduction strategies: rainn.org/safety-prevention.

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