Intimate & Dating Violence Awareness

Intimate partner violence, including dating violence is a significant problem for university students. Students are in the age group that experience the most violence and the most severe forms of violence. Peer facilitated dating violence projects help students to talk about healthy and unhealthy relationships, the bystander response, and the influence of gender and media on violence. This presentation will provide participants the opportunity to experience a few of the exercises included in a violence prevention weekend.

Location:

MacEwan Student Centre 482 – Women’s Resource Centre

Speaker:

Dr. Gaye WartheDr Gaye Warthe, RSW, is an associate professor and chair of the department of Social Work and Disability Studies at Mount Royal University. Gaye has worked with child welfare, Louise Dean School, the Calgary Board of Education, and the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Gaye has contributed to the development and implantation of domestic violence screening protocols. She was also involved in establishing the domes violence in court in Calgary and led the consultant on the Family and Sexual Violence Sector Review. Gaye has started a dating violence prevention project at Mount Royal University called Stepping Up. Gaye has also developed the Dating Relationship Scales to measure dating violence in a young adult population.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/intimate-dating-violence-awareness