Green Dot for College
2025
The Green Dot Prevention Strategy for College is a research-supported strategy shown to reduce interpersonal violence, including sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking on college campuses by equipping students and university employees with the skills needed to intervene in high-risk situations and model behaviors that create and strengthen healthy campus norms.
Bring the Green Dot Prevention
Strategy to Your Campus
Strategy to Your Campus
The Green Dot for College Implementation Training certifies instructors and coordinators to implement Green Dot on their campus. This two-part process includes:
- Instructor Training: A comprehensive two-day session preparing participants to deliver Green Dot programming.
- Coordinating Team Planning Meeting: A two-hour session held at the end of each training day to develop a tailored implementation plan.
Interested colleges can participate by hosting a College-Specific Training (CST) or sending a team to a virtual Green Dot Institute (GDI). Building the core knowledge and skills of a team maximizes positive outcomes.
COLLEGE-SPECIFIC TRAINING (CST)
CSTs can be a cost-effective option for colleges certifying large teams. The two-day Instructor Training, offered in-person or virtually, is college-specific, allowing for a tailored experience. Each day concludes with a Coordinating Team Planning Meeting to support implementation. Supplemental courses focused on prevention capacity building can be added to CSTs.
GREEN DOT INSTITUTE (GDI)
GDIs, offered virtually, provide the Instructor Training component of the Green Dot Strategy and are ideal for smaller teams or adding instructors to existing teams. This two-day training also includes Coordinating Team Planning Meetings at the end of each day to support implementation planning. GDIs are offered on a rolling basis and are open to any campus.
The Green Dot Prevention Strategy
The Green Dot Prevention Strategy for College consists of three components: workshops, social marketing, and evaluation. When implemented effectively, these three components can drive behavior change and transform the culture of an institution.
WORKSHOPS
Highly interactive, bystander-focused workshops are tailored to students and university employees to equip participants to (1) intervene in high-risk situations, and (2) foster a healthy campus culture.
SOCIAL MARKETING
Social Marketing Campaigns reinforce, strengthen, and help sustain prevention-related skills by integrating passive media and booster activities into the daily routines of the students and employees.
EVALUATION
Evaluation plans are implemented to measure progress utilizing surveys, key stakeholder interviews, and focus groups allowing for course corrections and ensuring desired outcomes are achieved.
Features
The landscape of college campuses has evolved in the past several years, and Green Dot has evolved with it. Without compromising the core components, Green Dot has been restructured, simplifying implementation, and increasing access for institutions regardless of resources.
Flexibility and Scalability:
Based on resources, colleges can scale up implementation, including adding expanded workshops, collecting qualitative data for evaluation, and using more complex approaches for dissemination.
Hybrid Delivery:
For each component of the Strategy, colleges are provided both virtual and in-person options for delivery.
Multi-Year Strategy:
The strategy is comprised of four successive years of distinct workshops and social marketing campaigns that reinforce and build on the core skills of prevention.
“I would recommend Green Dot to another college because it is the only program that I have seen truly reduce rates of sexual assault, relationship abuse, and stalking. Green Dot invites every layer of your campus to participate, from Trustees, to administration, employees, and students of every identity.”
– Libby Thorson, Assistant Dean of Students, University of Wyoming
Other helpful information:
Compliance Chart
Alteristic has an ongoing commitment to ensuring Green Dot aligns with regulations and funding streams, ensuring the burden of compliance is not left to our campus partners to bear alone. Click here to see a chart which summarizes how Green Dot helps partners achieve compliance with Clery, VAWA and the OVW Campus Grant.
Capacity Building Courses
Strengthen your prevention and culture change initiatives with our capacity building courses. Courses include topics such as: Fundamentals of Effective Prevention, Mobilizing Community Members to Action, Diffusion of Innovations: Creating Lasting Culture Change, and Maximizing Educator Impact. The content of each course is aligned with best practices to deepen the expertise of your prevention team. Whether you are implementing Green Dot or another prevention program, a strong foundation will strengthen impact and the sustainability of your efforts. Contact us to assess your team’s capacity and identify individual courses or a series of courses curated to meet the unique needs of your team.
Equitable and Inclusive Programming
Alteristic has partnered with Kalformativ to support colleges in strengthening equity and inclusion within their institution, providing a context that promotes and supports culturally competent programs. Kalformativ can assist in developing prevention initiatives that proactively engage groups that are often marginalized and excluded and ensuring the benefits of prevention efforts are equitably distributed among all members of the campus community. Kalformative offers services including DEI Audits, Strategy Development, and consultation and training to strengthen prevention programs. For more information review and contact us for next steps.