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Students: Volunteer at VIP
Here at VIP, we volunteer in Green Dots, not in hours
Here you can build your resume and leave a legacy. Here you can participate in community service and discover the influence you have to impact your peers. Here you can grow your leadership ability and find your passion for everyone at UK to be free of violence and fear. Here you can serve in meaningful outreach and know that you are part of a historic culture shift on this campus.
Here it’s about exploring your connection, getting the knowledge you need, and living the green dot out there.
So whether you have five minutes or five hours, there’s no time like today.
Stop by the VIP Center to…
First, Get What You Need:
In order to transform your influence into green dots, start by stopping by to get the knowledge you need. Anytime between 9:00am and 5:00pm, drop in to the VIP Center for a few minutes to hear what the Green Dot is all about, set a Green Dot Goal with us, experience the SEEDS Circuit, register for a SEEDS Conference, or stop by our regular Happy Hours to plug into a community that is working toward a violence-free campus.
Then, Get Out into your world and live the Green Dot!
- Tell a friend about what you learned from SEEDS.
- Look out for friends at parties and bars. Check in by asking, “Are you ok?”
- Support a friend who has been affected by violence.
- Post a quote that gets people thinking about this issue on Facebook.
- Invite a friend to go with you to Happy Hour at VIP.
- Wear a T-shirt, button, or bandana that shows others violence is a big deal to you.
- Integrate information about any form of power-based personal violence into a class assignment.
- Make an announcement or coordinate an effort to get your student org trained.
And once you are out living the green dot, make sure to come back to get support, knowledge, or connection whenever you need it! In this way, we will continue to build a critical mass of students that are intolerant of people we care about getting hurt on our campus.
Together, we are shifting apathy to action!
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- I talked to my friends about the SEEDS retreat I went to.
- We created a fundraiser for the VIP Center.
- I check in with my friends before we go out. Someone is always designated sober for the night. We stay together, we leave together.
- I have gone to Take Back the Night 3 years in a row.
- I put my green dot button on my bag.
- I brought my friend to VIP to volunteer.
- I heard my neighbors get into a verbal argument, I checked in to make sure everything was okay.
- When someone blames the victim, I talk to them about how wrong that is.
- I gave a class presentation on Green Dot.
- My friend had a suspicious bruise, I asked if she was okay and gave her the contact info for VIP.
- I take my class to the VIP Center every semester
- I passed out fliers for the VIP last semester.
- I didn’t let a stranger take my drunk friend home.
- I walked my friend home from the library.
- I went to SEEDS and got a couple friends to go with me.
- I ‘accidentally’ spilled my drink on a guy who wouldn’t leave this girl alone.
- I have several green dot/VIP shirts that I wear all the time.
- I take my green dot water bottle to the gym.
- I added “What’s your green dot?” to my email signature line.
- I created a SEEDS event on Facebook to invite all my friends to come.
- I got my fraternity brothers to attend SEEDS.
- I participated in In Our Own Voices, a play that raises awareness about violence
- I told the bartender about someone who I saw slip something in someone’s drink.
- I was there for my friend when she told me she had been assaulted.
- I volunteer at the VIP center a couple hours a week.
- I told my story at Take Back the Night.
- I participated in the Umbrella Walk.
- I did my English paper over power based personal violence.
- We did a group presentation on VIP.
- I wore my green dot button, and someone asked me about it.
- A couple was arguing loudly in a restaurant, and I told the manager.
- My friends now know not to make sexist jokes around me.
- When a news article comes out relating to violence, I discuss it with my friends.
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