Mission
The Sexual Assault Prevent Team (SAPT) is responsible for prevention and education of sexual misconduct prevention and response throughout the academic year at Wright State University. The team collaborates with campus partners to ensure both the Dayton and Lake campuses have access to resources and information about resource use regarding sexual misconduct. The team focuses on training, awareness, and data collection/analysis.
Members
Wright State’s Sexual Assault Prevention Team comprises members of:
- Student Advocacy and Wellness
- Residence Life and Housing
- Department of Public Safety
- Counseling and Wellness Services
- Student Success
- Student Legal Services
- Title IX
- Faculty Affairs
The team is actively seeking student members. Those who wish to participate can learn more and register their interest by going to Engage wright.campuslabs.com/engage/news/306134.
Goals and Outcomes
The SAPT focuses on raising awareness, data collection/analysis, and training. The goals in each of these areas include:
- Awareness:
- Increase Title IX reporting by 25% each year.
- Include survey data, prevention efforts, and SAPT summary in annual report presented to President’s cabinet each year.
- Offer prevention or response events to students in an active manner at least once each month throughout the academic year, with 20% of student body non-unique touchpoints each year.
- 75% of students who complete post-event assessment will report connecting with campus resources.
- Data Collection/Analysis:
- For each event hosted, design and incorporate assessment to be included in Engage (event management platform) and use QR code linked to survey at each event.
- Review event assessment data monthly at Sexual Assault Prevention Team meeting and make plans to update events as needed.
- Increase participation in annual survey by 10% of total possible students and employees each year.
- Increase completion of annual survey by 5% for students and employees each year.
- Training:
- Provide training to 90% of the first-year students through First Year Seminar class training sessions.
- Provide training to student leaders at least once per academic year: Resident Assistants, Student Athletes, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Established Leader Retreat, Peer Mentors.
- Provide in-person training to 75% of faculty each academic year.
- Increase number of students who report completing training to 50% of annual survey respondents
The SAPT has been focused on increasing awareness of and access to resources since Spring 2023. In that time, reporting gender discrimination and sexual misconduct on campus has increased by 70%. Through continued focus on the goals of our team, this number will likely increase further in coming years.
Activities and Strategy
Wright State participates in a number of events throughout the academic year, including events during Domestic Violence Prevention Month (October), Stalking Awareness Month (January), Healthy Relationships Month (February), and Sexual Assault Prevention Month (April). The past years’ events have included a Nix the Icks campaign in collaboration with partners across campus. The campaign in the 2024-2025 academic year was focused on raising awareness of behaviors that “give someone the ick” and how to mitigate those behaviors, as well as resources for those who have experienced unwanted behavior directed at them.
Event delivery includes passive, active, and interactive events, as well as in-person training sessions. Passive events are those that can reach participants quickly, such as posters, social media campaigns, and digital engagements. Active events are those which engage participants for a short time in an effort to raise awareness, such as tabling events, gathering signatures for pledges, and walk-through displays, i.e. What Were You Wearing. Interactive events engage participants for a time while building skills for real-world application, such as the Love Your Body and Bystander Intervention events. Training sessions include attending student classrooms, speaking with student leaders, and engaging faculty and staff in sessions which provide resources and information directly to participants. Through these various ways and means of engagement, the SAPT focuses on building individual skills which will help the community form relationships to ultimately positively change the climate on campus
Prevention Strategy
Our prevention strategy encourages awareness of behaviors to hopefully mitigate negative behaviors that are or lead to sexual misconduct. Using the socio-ecogical model (below), we hope to build a diligent community in which members will actively stop behaviors they witness which could lead to sexual misconduct, and will discourage speech that perpetuates sexually exploitative language. The ultimate hope is that all students, faculty, staff, and guests will know and engage with resources available.
Visibility
The SAPT is actively working with IT to get this information published on an interactive website available at wright.edu/title-ix-gender-based-violence for all members of the WSU community (students, faculty, staff, parents/guardians, visitors, guests).
Annual Events
September: Violence Prevention
Chain of Anti-Violence
These Hands Don’t Hurt Pledge
Speaker Session
October: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
F.R.I.E.S. Consent Education
Bystander Intervention
November: Suicide Prevention Month
Clothesline Project Display
Sex Education Resources Fair
January: Stalking Awareness Month
Following YOU: Stalking Education
Speaker Session
February: Healthy Relationships Month
Green Flags v. Red Flags: Healthy Relationship
Education
March: Self Injury Awareness Month
Sex Education and Sundaes Resource Fair
What Were You Wearing
April: Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Take Back the Night
Denim Day