Description of event: Virtual High School ‘Office Hours’ with a Lead BITB Trainer
Cost: Free for BITB HS license holders
Deadline for signup: 2 hours prior to the start of the session
*Soteria Solutions reserves the right to cancel a session if there are no registered attendees at least 2 hours prior to the scheduled session.
Max Capacity: 20
Eligibility: Registrants must have a current Bringing in the Bystander® High School Curriculum license, that does not expire within 6 months of event date.*
Duration: 1 hour
Overview/Summary:
Wanting to know more about implementing BITB in your High School?
Looking for tips or tricks around customizing BITB from the experts?
Or need a refresher on facilitating the program?
Soteria Solutions is now offering recurring ‘virtual office hours’ with one of our Lead Trainers to current license holders. This opportunity to consult with an expert lead trainer (and in some instances the authors of the program as well) is free and open to all current license holders of the Bringing in the Bystander® High School Prevention Program*. Gain insight into any questions about facilitating, implementing, customizing, and evaluating the BITB High School program.
The virtual office hours will run from 12 pm (ET) till 1 pm (ET) on the 4th Wednesday of every month (unless holiday or otherwise noted, see schedule). Registration is required and will close at least 1-hour prior to each session.
Join any or all of the sessions to ask our experienced trainers about:
trauma-informed facilitation skills
strategies for adapting BITB High School to unique school cultures.
Understanding the facilitation and adaptation of the BITB High School curriculum.
Practicing bystander intervention strategies.
getting tips from other attendees facing the same challenges you are.
*Current version of Bringing in the Bystander High School is Version 1.23.
Not sure if your institute has a license? Reach out to Casey at casey.laplante@soteriasolutions.org for more information before registering.
If you would like to renew your license early and receive the latest BITB version, we are happy to help you. Renewing your license extends your license time three years beyond its natural expiration. You will not lose any license time. Contact Casey at casey.laplante@soteriasolutions.org.
Target Audience: (who should attend?): Program coordinators, Trainers who will be implementing the program and training others to facilitate on their campus, and facilitators (people who will be delivering the program to students), administrators, community partners, rape crisis centers and other resource providers
Agenda or objectives: Have a question or topic you would like our lead trainer to address during an upcoming session, reach out to Casey at casey.laplante@soteriasolutions.org to submit prior in order to make sure your question/topic gets addressed.
Soteria Solutions team members:
Moderated by any 1 of the following Lead Trainers:
Caroline Leyva, Director of Curriculum Development and co-author of Bringing in the Bystander® College and High School Prevention Program
Kate Rohdenburg, M.S., is a lead trainer & listserv moderator
Robert (Bobby) Eckstein, PsyD., is a lead trainer and co-author of Bringing in the Bystander® College and High School Prevention Program
Admin support
Casey Laplante, Project Manager
Additional Details/requirements, details:
Participating organizations must have a valid license for BITB High School program.
Video/Audio: This training requires attendees to have a microphone and a web camera. Attendees should be ready to attend this highly interactive session with videos and microphone’s on. If attendees do not feel comfortable interacting virtually with trainers and other attendees, their questions can be submitted to casey.laplante@soteriasolutions.org at least 1 hour prior to the office hour session they plan to attend. Depending on the attendance size of the session, Soteria Solutions cannot guarantee every question or topic will be able to be addressed during 1 session but our team will work to answer your questions at a following session or via follow-up.
Soteria Solutions reserves the right to cancel a session if there are no registered attendees at least 2 hours prior to the scheduled session.