The RSVP Center offers programs to expand student, faculty, and staff knowledge surrounding stalking, sexual harassment, sexual violence, identity, and intimate partner/domestic violence. We also house Mizzou’s bystander intervention program: Engage-d Tigers. We are often requested as guest lecturers for courses and for student organization meetings through our RSVP Peer Educators program, and we also offer our own educational programming throughout the academic year. Our Center offers professional and academic development via volunteering, service learning, work-study opportunities, practicum experiences, and internship opportunities. Center professionals also serve as content experts and consult on student projects, faculty and staff team policies, and organizational development. The links attached to this page contain more information on each of these items.
RSVP Peer Educator Presentations:
Understanding Rape Culture
RSVP Peer Educators lead an interactive presentation on what rape culture looks like and how it manifests in our daily lives. Additionally, you will learn about sexual violence, media-supported violence, and some ways that we can advocate for meaningful change in our society. (45-60 minutes required)
Introduction to the Dynamics of Relationship Violence
Designed to share foundation-level information about relationship violence. Facilitators will walk participants through multiple scenarios of relationships that experience violence. Participants will learn signs of an abusive relationship, how to safely intervene, and campus and community resources that are available to those who experience relationship violence. (45-60 minutes required)
Introduction to the Dynamics of Stalking
Designed to share foundation-level information about stalking, especially as applicable to a college campus. Participants will be challenged to examine their own ideas about stalking and how the minimization of this crime through language perpetuates rape culture. (45-60 minutes required)
How to Help a Friend
This presentation shares the RSVP Center’s Listen. Believe. Support model for survivor allyship. The goal of this presentation is to give loved ones of survivors the tools they need to be the best support systems possible for the survivors in their lives. (45-60 minutes required)
Requesting a Presentation
If you are interested in having a representative from our office visit your classroom, organization meeting, or function, please complete the following form.
*Please review the time length of the presentation you are requesting. Times cannot be shortened, but could run over if groups are involved in engaging dialogue.
**Programs must be requested at least two weeks prior to the first desired date. We cannot accommodate presentations with less than two weeks notice.