Bringing in the Bystander – Safeguards unit cohesion & builds trust, accountability, and respect within the ranks.
Safe and Respectful Learning and Living Communities
By embodying the values of Respect, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage—this program empowers soldiers to take an active role in preventing and addressing harmful behaviors that threaten the strength of the unit.
By reinforcing the responsibility to speak up and intervene as prosocial bystanders, soldiers create an environment where every team member feels valued and protected. This proactive approach not only strengthens morale and mission readiness but also ensures that every soldier upholds the highest ethical standards, both on and off duty.
When military members live by these values and lead with prosocial bystander examples, they foster a military community where safety, dignity, and mutual respect define the way they serve—side by side, united as one.
An Evidence-Based Solution: Bringing in the Bystander College Prevention Program
Bringing in the Bystander (BITB) Miltary-Based Version is a prevention program based on the concept that all community members have a role to play in ending incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination. The important role that a bystander has in intervention is the basis for this unique and effective program.
The program helps participants gain the knowledge and skills needed to identify and safely intervene before, during and after instances of risky behaviors. With the common goal of creating and maintaining safe and respectful learning, working and living communities void of incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination.
To learn more about bystander intervention research, click here.
BRINGING IN THE BYSTANDER PREVENTION PROGRAM – AN OVERVIEW
This interactive program allows participants to develop and practice bystander intervention prevention skills in-person or virtually. BITB approaches all community members as potential bystanders or witnesses to risky situations and teaches prosocial (positive, appropriate, and safe) ways to prevent or intervene. BITB can be modified to reflect the culture and demographics of your Installation, Unit, and Group. Customize the curriculum to meet specific needs of your audience!
Evaluation of Bringing in the Bystander Prevention Program:
Bringing in the Bystander (BITB) College and Know Your Power® have been scientifically evaluated and demonstrated to be effective prevention programs. Evaluations were funded by The National Institute for Justice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Army Europe Command (USAREUR)/Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Research-validated results found the following:
- BITB is now the bystander intervention program with the most replicated empirical support for effectiveness in increasing positive bystander knowledge, attitudes, efficacy, and behavior. (Jouriles et al., 2018; Kettrey et al., 2019; Mujal et al., 2019; Storer et al., 2016)
- Bringing in the Bystander increases bystander intervention. (Moynihan et al. 2015)
- Participants show increased helping behaviors up to a year after participation. (Moynihan et al. 2015)
- Bringing in the Bystander may be more effective than traditional programs focused on perpetrators and victims. (Peterson et al. 2016)
- Bringing in the Bystander is easily adaptable to a variety of audiences. (Cares et al. 2015)
Learning Methods
The program utilizes a full array of learning methods:
Lecture
Discussion
Interactive Exercises
Small Group Work
Opportunities to Practice Skills
Role Play Scenarios
The program includes time for participants to create and discuss their own bystander plans, take a bystander pledge, and includes additional resources such as C.A.P.E.S. cards and resources for students on the national, state and local level such as crisis centers and community partners.
BITB Military Version Purchase Includes
| The Purchase Package | |
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| 3-Year Curriculum License | $3,600 |
| Facilitator Guide 2 Hard Copies |
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| Curriculum PowerPoint (in-person and virtual training decks available), Electronic Templates and Resources for customization | |
| Facilitator Training Videos to assist in facilitating select exercises in the curriculum | |
| Access to Soteria Solutions Online Community (600+ schools, universities, community partners) | |
| Training Credit -Worth $800 to utilize towards Hosting a Train-the-Trainer or towards a Small Group Refresher Session. | Credits do not expire Can be used to join a scheduled training if available |
Training Options
Soteria Solutions offers three options to train additional staff to facilitate BITB. Participants will learn the BITB curriculum in depth and be empowered to train future facilitators within your Installation community. If you choose ‘Join Training’ option, training is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participants for implementation typically include staff and community partners who are responsible for coordinating and/or facilitating sexual assault prevention and similar programs on your Installation and in the community.
Host A Training |
Small Group Refresher Session |
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| FORMAT | In person (we come to you) or live virtually (you pick the dates) | Live virtual (you pick the dates) |
| DURATION | 1 full day for in person; virtual is total of 7 hours split over two days |
3.5 hours plus a 30 min Intro/Assessment call |
| TARGET AUDIENCE & DETAILS | Future facilitators of various experience levels. This option offers the chance for you to train many people at once specifically on this military version. Training materials are customized, including scenarios to resonate with the participants. This option can enable a cohesive, effective, and successful implementation. Includes a hard-copy facilitator guide for every participant. |
Future facilitators who have violence prevention and facilitation experience. A highly tailored session for up to 5 experienced facilitators designed to enhance their skills and knowledge of the BITB program as future trainers and stay current with the latest BITB practices, techniques, and information. Designed to meet the specific needs of the attendees and their community, the session includes a required 30-minute introductory assessment call, which must be scheduled at least one week prior to the training. This call ensures the session is aligned with the audience and objectives. Includes a hard-copy facilitator guide for every participant. |
| PRICING | $9,500 for in person for up to 20 attendees; $5,200 for virtual for up to 13 attendees |
$2,500 for up to five attendees; $500 pp for additional attendees |
| ADDITIONAL SEATS TO TRAINING | $475 per person (pp) for in person $400 pp for virtual |
$500 per person |
To discuss Hosting a Training or a Small Group Refresher Session:
Additional offering
Consulting services for successful implementation, adaption and evaluation of BITB. $200/hour.
Join a Military Based Training if Available- Use your training credits to get 2 seats to join an established training either being hosted in-person or virtually that centers around the Military-Version of BITB but includes other attendees from other military communities.
Why Soteria Solutions for Your Military Audience?
- Solutions customized to leverage your organization’s strengths, culture and values.
- A collaborative, flexible approach as we partner with you as a catalyst to ignite lasting change.
- Bringing in the Bystander® and Know Your Power® are based on leading research on bystander intervention.
- Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power were both evaluated and demonstrated to be an effective prevention program.
- Sustainable change is achieved.
- Nationally recognized by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Culture of Respect and The White House Task Force to Protect Students as a theory-driven and evidence-based sexual violence prevention program.
Other Solutions for Military Audiences
Know Your Power® Marketing Campaigns
Adapted for Military Audiences. A set of bystander intervention marketing campaigns developed based on bystander intervention research and focus groups that effectively raise awareness and willingness to safely intervene. Learn more.
Bystander Intervention Social Media Kit
Used in conjunction with Bringing in the Bystander or Know Your Power, the Bystander Intervention Social Media Kit reinforces the important role of a bystander within your community. With over 160 images, files and videos for social media channels including X, Facebook and Instagram, the Social Media Kit increases awareness and keeps important bystander messages top of mind.
Evaluation and Consultation
Soteria Solutions can provide your instalation with technical assistance focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of prevention tools and frameworks, compliance strategies, survivor services, research measures and strategic planning. All of which can help you more effectively address incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination in your community. For example:
- Receive technical assistance grounded in research, theory and evidence-based evaluation.
- Build capacity to comply with Title IX, VAWA, the Clery Act, Title VII and state laws.
- Design strategies to create and sustain violence-free learning, working and living environments.
For me, the quality of any prevention program is evaluated by the underlying research. It was from reading the research that I discovered Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power. These evidence-based programs address issues directly, include materials and scenarios that are highly representative and the programs are highly adaptive for our community. While the quality of the program is fundamental, as important to me is the quality of the people, as they will inevitably provide guidance, feedback, and technical assistance on implementation. For me, this is another key area where Soteria Solutions stands out. My contacts at Soteria Solutions have been incredibly supportive, approachable and beyond helpful.
- Abdul Staten
Director of Student Advocacy and Prevention Awareness
Caldwell University
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