Wesleyan is a Green Dot Campus

Green Dot is a national violence prevention program, implemented on our campus in 2024.

The Green Dot Violence Prevention Strategy is a national program that trains students, faculty, and staff in bystander intervention to help prevent instances of power-based personal violence (PBPV). PBPV is a form of violence where one individual asserts power, control, or intimidation over another to cause harm, including dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and harassment. When these moments occur on our campus, they’re called red dots.

A “Green Dot” is any action, choice, or attitude that stops, counters, or displaces a “red dot,” reducing the likelihood that someone will be hurt.  The Green Dot Strategy promotes safety for everyone in the Wesleyan community, but also sends a clear message that we do not tolerate violence on our campus.

Everyone will be a bystander at some point, and Green Dot provides the resources and tools to help you.  Green Dot encourages individuals to make a choice to do something when they see a “red dot” happening.  The Prevention Strategy works at the individual level to create a culture change.  Momentum is created when individuals each make small choices against violence, seeing themselves as acting in conjunction as part of a bigger moment.  These small choices then become the cultural norm, creating a community that does not tolerate and will not sustain violence.

Students are pledging to live the Green Dot already through our Honor Code -- the training just gives you the skills to do it.

No one has to do everything ...
Everyone has to do something!
What's your GREEN DOT?

To get trained or request a training complete this form or reach out to weswell@wesleyan.edu