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green dot community bystander
intervention training program
it's kind of a mouthful but
the effort is simple to reduce
violence in our community
right now in the broadcast
with Rachel trip, she's a
community development
specialist at community
partnership of the Ozarks
Rachel thanks for being my
guests tonight.
Thank you, I'm so excited
to be here. Thank you you bet,
so let's talk about the green
dot community program I kind
of rattled off a long. Title
for what this is all about,
but it's pretty simple this
came to Springfield back in
2014 correct.
green up first appeared in
2014 an employee of community
partnership was sent to be
trained to implement college
green dot and universities and
soon after that all 4 of
started implementing green dot
other campuses so than in 2018
we learned about community
green dot which is very
just at a community focus
rather be college focus so we
learned about and then we sit
community partnerships and 3
employees one of them being
myself to be trained to
implement the program right
here in Springfield. So we
right now along with trained
representatives from Missouri
State University mercy and
cots hospitals child advocacy
center legal services,
Missouri extension, even some
volunteers are 80. We got
together for a green dot
committee and they would
launch new degree got
Springfield. So the whole idea
here Rachel behind this
effort.
Is to reduce violence in
our community right. And to me
how that's happening.
So how that's happening
through one of versus This new
green dot program so green dot
really is a bystander
intervention training program
witnesses a potential power
base personal violence. That
is domestic violence child of
yours and what it does is it
really teaches people and
gives people the tools to be
able to interact situations
that or potentially high risk
for violence. It's really also
a prevention program that
seeks to reduce step that
power base personal violence
in our community is predicated
community members our role in
reducing violence. So how I
like to explain it because
people sometimes ask how did
at this point it is if you
imagine a map of spring you'll
see lots of little red dots
and about and those red dots
represent potential Iris
violent situations and then go
see much dust up that map and
what green dots represent or
actions that people take to
intervene into RET those
high-risk violence situations
so to put it simply red dots
are problems and green dots
are the solutions.
I would assume since the
program came here 2014 and has
since expanded it's seen some
success in terms of making
this work and preventing some
of those things in our
community.
Yes, to date we have
actually trained over 70
people and are very happy and
it's absolutely incredible
that we have so many
bystanders our community right
now can recognize and.
Confidently and safely
interrupt those high-risk
Island situations. And you
know we really want to model
and indoors the norms that are
incompatible of violence. We
want to not only react to that
we want to ensure that the
number of people that are hurt
by central sought domestic
violence child abuse talking,
you know in our community
ship our community support
violence that's occurring and
like I said over 70 people we
have lots of people out there
who are doing green dot says
as how we what we say. And it
is just incredible to hear.
You know a lot of positive
feedback from our trainings
and from what people are doing
and I know you all are going
to speaking at the 2021
women's March coming up
Saturday January 23rd that's a
week from this coming
Saturday.
You're also going to have a
virtual bystander intervention
training programming program
coming up in February talk
about the March and then
you're a training session
coming up in February.
opportunity to speak at the
2021 women's March and next
Saturday and I'll be there
along with several of our
green not community
facilitators and one of our
facilitators Apollo rector she
will actually be speaking at
the women's March and it just
telling people of more about
green not how do get Bob what
green dye is so we're looking
forward to being there is to
bring side about that. We also
have a or a virtual bystander
intervention training and we
typically have these trainings
in person that we have is
virtual option and there are
various been training is very
engaging and you learn a lot
of really applicable tools and
that virtual bystander
intervention training is
coming up next month Wednesday
February 17th from 12 to one
30 PM so right there in middle
of your lunch hour. is open
for anyone in the community to
attend and is absolutely free
and you can register for this
training on our facebook page.
The event is on our facebook
page and that's going to be
the easiest way to to register
for it and to stay up to date
with what community green eyes
doing and if you have any
questions or want to get
involved our facebook page is
going to be best way to reach
out to us Rachel trip with the
committee partnership talking
about the green dot community
program I appreciate your.
Your time and again we put
up that facebook page for
people to search on facebook
just look for community green
dot Springfield on facebook
folks can get signed up for
that virtual training coming
up. It's an important effort
and it's free and it could
perhaps save some lives all
right Rachel appreciate your
time thank you. Thank you, I