The Great Give helps make great strides toward violence prevention

The College of Social Work and other colleges and organizations across FSU’s campus participated in the Great Give, a 36-hour online giving campaign, April 18-19, 2013. The campaign allowed each group to raise money and support unique projects throughout the University.

The College raised funds to develop the FSU Healthy Relationships Online Toolkit, which focuses on violence prevention education and set its fundraising target at $20,000. During the 36-hour campaign the College received 77 gifts and made 16% of the funds needed to complete the launch of the site. 

The Toolkit is being developed by the College’s Institute for Family Violence Studies (IFVS) and would be made up of three components that will be available online and free for the public:

1. Online interactive toolkit for students will describe healthy relationships, dynamics of unhealthy relationship, sexual violence, consent and provides resources to students in need, particularly LGBTQ students, college veterans and students in the Greek community. Resources for parents and faculty will be available as well.
2. Training the trainer component designed to give student leaders, residence hall assistances, housing representatives, student organizations, sororities, fraternities and athletes the tools they need to educate their peers and prevent dating and sexual violence.
3. Group activities designed for groups of 5-20 including interactive role plays perfect for residence hall meetings, orientation groups and student organizations. 

The IFVS plans to begin beta testing a model of the site in the summer of 2013.

Find out how you can support this project by contacting Colette Podgorski at cpodgorski@foundation.fsu.edu or (850) 228-8536. To learn more about the project or the Institute for Family Violence Studies contact IFVS Director Karen Oehme, JD at koehme@fsu.edu or (850) 644-6303.