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Information on specific risk reduction strategies.
Ongoing Prevention and Awareness Campaigns The College provides an annual educational campaign for all students and employees designed to provide ongoing education and programming around issues of sexual violence – including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. Campaign strategies employed include face‐to‐face presentations, online training programs, printed materials, self‐ defense programming, tabling displays, and related lectures. Ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns include self‐defense programming; domestic violence month events and activities; sexual assault and awareness month, which includes presentations and an annual; Red Flag Campaign for bystander intervention programming; programming specific to developing healthy relationships; and regular student conversations related to sexual assault and relationship violence and speaking up as part of the Mystics for Mystics. The following are some specific examples of annual programs currently offered by the college. This list is not all inclusive: •
Online Education: First year students complete online learning for effective ways to prevent and report sexual assault on our campus. Employees also receive online education through Safe Colleges.
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Consent Programs: An example is Fries and Consent. An interactive program for employees and students to note a variety of ways everyday consent can be related to relationship consent. Another example is a program of posters regarding consent from Montana State University. Different program ideas are implemented to showcase this message including displays on celebrity standees.
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Red Flag Campaign: Red Flag Campaign helps people understand potentially concerning moments in relationships that individuals and friends should pay attention too. It helps people understand what may stop them from intervening in a potentially harmful situations and discusses tools to intervene.
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Bystander Training: Mystics Help Mystics is an ongoing campaign implementing different programs showcasing healthy community develop, relationships, and support for others. An example is a postcard campaign for students and employees to write ways that other Mystics have helped them, or they have helped other Mystics. These postcards are displayed for others to see and create an impact for all the good ways people are helping each other in the College’s community. Further follow up has included ways to support Mystics to cheer them on or provide appropriate support when needed.
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Specialty Programs: Speakers like, CL Lindsay, are invited to campus to discuss social media and sexual assault awareness for students regarding consent, social media posting, and how to protect their privacy to avoid being a target in particular situations.
NOTE: While the Red Flag Campaign is an institutional marquee VAWA prevention program, due to the pandemic and the College’s decision to move to remote learning and working in March of 2020, these, and other spring 2020 programs were directly impacted by this decision.
Procedures Victims Should Follow if a Crime of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking Occurs After an incident of sexual assault, dating violence, or domestic violence, the victim should consider seeking medical attention as soon as possible at Sanford Health or St. Alexius Medical Center. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) at the hospital are trained and certified in physical evidentiary recovery kit collection. Evidence may be collected, even if the victim chooses not to make a report to law enforcement 1. The State of North Dakota, which includes Bismarck State College Campus and surrounding area, has established the following reporting options for victims of sexual assault. I. II.
Immediate Investigation • The victim reports the details of the sexual assault to law enforcement at the time of the forensic medical exam. Delayed Investigation •
The victim does not immediately participate with law enforcement at the time of the forensic medical exam.
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accordance with NDCC 43-17-41 health care professionals are required to report sexual assaults to law enforcement. The forensic kit with the victim’s name and address may be kept by the law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where the sexual assault occurred for a minimum of seven years or until the victim turns twenty-two, whichever occurs later.
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