To prepare to facilitate this workshop, please consider the following:

• Read through the facilitator’s guide to familiarize yourself with the content.
• Familiarize yourself with your institution’s sexualized violence policy and procedures. Be sure you have the most up-to-date version of the policy.
• Download the PowerPoint slides and make any modifications; add relevant examples and additional insights based on your own experience or that are relevant to the student population of participants. The following slides need to be customized:
  • Slide 2 Territory Acknowledgement
  • Slide 24 Activity: Practice Scenario
  • Slide 29 List of Supports
  • Slide 31 Small Group Activity: Scenario
• Familiarize yourself with the handouts in Appendix 1:
  • Supporting Survivors of Sexualized Violence (handout 1)
  • Wellness Wheel (handout 2)
  • Scenarios with Suggested Responses (handout 3)
• Determine how you will share the handouts and any other resources.
• Find out what post-secondary and community resources are available that support students who have experienced or witnessed sexualized violence and populate handout 1 and slide 29.
• Consider how many participants you expect will attend. The guide assumes approximately 6 to 30 participants; if your group is larger, you may need to modify some of the small-group activities.
• Prepare to give a territory acknowledgement to open the session.

In-Person Session

For a session held in person (not online), you will need the following:

• Laptop
• Projector
• Flipchart or whiteboard and appropriate markers
• Copies of the three handouts to share with participants

Online Session

For a session held online (for example, through Zoom), you should do the following:

• Schedule a meeting time in a video-conferencing program.
• Check that the screen share function is enabled to share slides.
• If using chat or breakout rooms, check that they are enabled.
• Share the meeting link and any passwords with participants prior to the session.
• Consider sending the meeting information at least twice, including once the day before the session. You may also want to share suggestions for online meeting etiquette for creating a safe learning space (e.g., sharing supportive comments and respecting confidentiality).
• Consider assigning someone to be the monitor responsible for responding to technical issues and questions posted to the chat.
• Make sure you have a plan for distributing handouts and other resources online. You could share PDFs in the chat, share links in the chat, or email participants after the session. Remember to let participants know how and when they can expect to receive these resources.

Ensuring Accessibility

Accessibility is designing and creating resources, experiences, tools, and spaces that support the diversity of participants. It centres the needs of people with disabilities to ensure that they can engage in ways that work best for them. Your institution will likely have policies, resources, and supports related to accessibility that you can build on as you prepare to deliver training on sexualized violence. Below is a list of questions about accessibility to consider before this workshop.

Environment

• Are teaching and learning spaces physically accessible by those who use a wheelchair or other mobility aids?
• Are there chairs available that accommodate various body sizes?
• Are washrooms both physically accessible and designated as gender inclusive?
• If facilitating online, is the learning platform accessible to people using assistive technologies and a variety of devices?
• How can your institution help with accessibility? Consider contacting your institution’s accessibility services department for support in increasing the accessibility of this training.

Delivery and Participation Options

• During registration or sign-up, have you communicated what accessibility supports are available and asked whether learners have any accessibility requirements (e.g., “Is there something we can do to support your access and participation in this training?”)
• Are a variety of learning methods being used? For example, in an online workshop, are you asking questions, using breakout rooms, using the chat box, offering reflective activities, using polling or whiteboard features?
• If facilitating online, is captioning provided? Many web conferencing platforms have automatic captioning that can be turned on.
• When possible, is there support for childcare?
• Do you provide a certificate of completion? Participants may appreciate this as it can be used to demonstrate knowledge and skills that could help them with a job, a volunteer opportunity, or simply for their own sense of satisfaction.