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More than 50% of small businesses fail before their fifth consecutive year of operating. 2023 marks the 5th year anniversary of Soteria Solutions. We spoke with three leaders to capture their reflections on how Soteria Solutions has leveraged their strengths and their partners’ strengths to thrive in their first five years; being a catalyst for achieving meaningful change in high schools, colleges and universities and in workplaces.

The potential impact of bystander intervention programming for sexual and relationship violence and stalking was codified when the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act amended the Clery Act to require all colleges and universities that receive federal funding to provide bystander intervention programs that teach students skills to safely and effectively intervene if they witness interpersonal violence. As campus administrators seek to select a bystander intervention program for their campus, they might ask, “How do I know if it works?”

The first Virtual Office Hours Event was a big success!

Caroline Leyva, Director of Curriculum Development and co-author of Bringing in the Bystander® College and High School Prevention Program, led the Office Hours and answered questions and provided insight to assist with facilitation questions.

At Soteria Solutions, we implement programs focused on preventing sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking and discrimination. Therefore, nearly all of the content in any of our programs could be potentially triggering to participants who have directly experienced – or had someone close to them experience – interpersonal violence. We also focus on primary prevention programming, which is designed for participants who have not had previous conversations about violence.

The Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education recently released its third annual report which summarizes work from the past year (2022) including work done by members and partner organizations. Soteria Solutions is proud to be recognized in the annual report for evidenced-based solutions to address and prevent sexual harassment and violence.

The Know Your Power® Bystander Social Marketing Campaign is the result of almost 20 years of collaboration between researchers and practitioners who have worked together to develop, evaluate, and implement a “passive” intervention strategy that increases target audience awareness of the problem of sexual and relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment, providing them with tools to intervene when they witness dangerous or potentially dangerous situations.

Recently, the city of Chicago made headlines when they expanded their sexual assault prevention efforts by requiring bystander intervention training for all companies with at least one employee working in the city. This requirement is the first of its kind in the nation and advocates hope that required bystander intervention training will expand to all companies around the nation.

Recently, Soteria Solutions hosted two brainstorming sessions focused on developing new scenarios for the Bringing in the Bystander® (BITB) College Prevention Program. Prevention programming involves combining knowledge and skills into action.

Clients, customers, patients and consumers may not be familiar with legislation passed earlier this year that has far reaching impact. Changes to the Federal Arbitration Act have ended forced arbitration, enabling a victim of sexual assault or harassment to go to court. This will likely increase public attention and awareness of claims that have been historically kept out of the public eye.

Clients, customers, patients and consumers may not be familiar with legislation passed earlier this year that has far reaching impact. Changes to the Federal Arbitration Act have ended forced arbitration, enabling a victim of sexual assault or harassment to go to court. This will likely increase public attention and awareness of claims that have been historically kept out of the public eye.

Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field commemorates the 50th anniversary of Title IX, an addition to the Education Amendments Act of 1972 that fundamentally reshaped American society by prohibiting discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal assistance.

We recently completed a Virtual Water Cooler Event for high school, college and community partners who are license holders of Bringing in the Bystander® (BITB).

Collective Action to Address and Prevent Sexual Harassment: Two Efforts from Soteria Solutions are Featured in NASEM’s Annual Report and Repository Update

Part 2 of 2: Building partnerships with employees and organizations for safe, respectful workplaces.

Part 1 of 2: Creating safe, respectful workplaces based on social norms and data

Recently, a man raped a woman on public transportation in Philadelphia and outrage has focused on the people on the train who did not intervene.