The Title IX Office at NSU provides prevention programs that are interactive, student-focused, and designed to address real experiences on campus. Through workshops, events, and collaborations with student organizations and campus partners, these programs promote awareness, teach practical skills, and create space for open conversations about consent, healthy relationships, cultural dynamics, and community safety. Our goal is to empower students to engage in respectful interactions, recognize unhealthy behaviors, and contribute to a culture of care and accountability at NSU.
Programs Include:
“Build Your Own Consent Combo” is an interactive and engaging workshop designed to help students understand the components of healthy consent using the FRIES model: Freely Given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific. Participants work in small groups to "build a combo meal" by selecting examples that reflect each part of FRIES, discussing real-life scenarios, and reflecting on how consent works in different situations — from relationships and hookups to social settings and campus life. This activity encourages meaningful conversations, reinforces our university’s definition of consent, and gives students practical tools to recognize and practice respectful, mutual, and informed decision-making. This workshop is available in 60-minute format.
Theme(s): Understanding consent (FRIES model), healthy vs. unhealthy behaviors, peer discussion, and connection to NSU’s consent policy
The event brings together students, Public Safety, and the Davie Police Department for casual conversations over coffee. This event creates a welcoming space to build trust, ask questions, and learn about campus safety resources—no agenda, just connection.
Theme(s): community engagement, public safety, relationship-building
Exploring how cultural backgrounds shape our expectations, communication styles, and relationship values. Through open dialogue and reflection, participants will learn how to better understand and navigate intercultural romantic relationships, embracing both the complexities and strengths that come from blending traditions and perspectives.
Theme(s): relationships, communication, cultural competency
This interactive workshop invites participants to analyze clips from popular movies and TV shows to evaluate the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Through guided discussion, attendees explore how media shapes perceptions of romance, consent, and boundaries, while learning to identify behaviors that promote respect and those that signal concern. This workshop encourages critical thinking and empowers participants to foster healthier relationships in their own lives.
Theme(s): healthy relationships, media literacy, consent awareness
This interactive experience challenges participants to critically examine how stalking and unhealthy relationship behaviors are often romanticized in popular media. Starting with clips from well-known movies and TV shows, participants engage in discussions to identify red flags and misconceptions, fostering greater awareness of stalking and consent. This activity promotes media literacy and equips attendees with the tools to recognize and challenge unhealthy relationship dynamics.
Theme(s): stalking awareness, media literacy, healthy relationships
Students connect with Public Safety and the Title IX team to learn about stalking awareness. This event offers important information on recognizing stalking behaviors, understanding how to seek help, and supporting peers—over a slice of pizza and meaningful conversation.
Theme(s): stalking awareness, safety, prevention education
This interactive choose-your-own adventure replicates popular social media sites and allows students to decide to swipe right or block as they explore various characters and communications. Adapted for ages middle school through college, this has been a popular program for classes and student organizations.
Themes: cybersafety, red flags/green flags, communicating with peers
In collaboration with Phi Delta Theta, the Sticky Note Project invites students to reflect on and share their thoughts about healthy masculinity. By contributing anonymous messages on sticky notes, participants engage in an open dialogue that challenges traditional stereotypes, promotes positive expressions of masculinity, and encourages accountability. The project aims to foster awareness and create a campus culture that supports respectful, inclusive, and healthy attitudes toward gender and identity.
Theme(s): healthy masculinity, community engagement, gender awareness
Students can test their knowledge and challenge common misconceptions about Title IX. Through interactive materials and conversations with the Title IX team, participants explored facts versus myths surrounding rights, resources, and protections related to sexual misconduct and discrimination. The event aimed to empower the campus community with accurate information to promote awareness and support.
Theme(s): Title IX education, myth busting, sexual misconduct awareness
This training provides an overview of trauma-informed care for health care professionals and students, within a specific discipline or in health professions in general. The workshop covers an overview of trauma-informed care, and challenges participants to explore ways to make their medical practice more supportive of patients/clients who may have experienced trauma
Theme(s): understanding trauma, trauma-informed care, professional development
Title IX teams up with Kappa Alpha Psi to discuss Konsent. Delve into an engaging exploration of consent, facilitated through interactive activities and discussions. This event aims to empower attendees with essential knowledge and skills to promote a culture of respect and understanding in all interpersonal interactions.
Theme(s): consent, healthy relationships
Bystander Intervention
Bystander intervention is about recognizing when something isn’t right and choosing to step in safely. Whether it’s checking in on a friend, creating a distraction, or calling for help, small actions can make a big difference in preventing harm. At NSU, we encourage students to look out for one another and use bystander strategies to promote a safer, more respectful campus community. There are things we can all do to make our campus a safer one for everyone.
Use the NSU Bystander Edge:
- Evaluate the situation – are there any safety concerns? What help or escape path is nearby? Are there others in the area who can help?
- Determine a plan of action – decide on a strategy, which may include any of the following ways to step in:
- Direct – Speak up and address the situation clearly and respectfully.
- Distract – Interrupt the situation in a subtle way, like changing the subject, creating a diversion, or making a joke
- Delegate – Get help from others, such as a friend, RA, or Public Safety.
- Desert – Leave the area
- Give Assistance – lend your support or intervene however you best can in the moment.
- Exit Safely – get out of the situation, and report to Title IX, NSU Public Safety, or local police if you need more assistance.