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Prevention, Education, Professional Development, Training, & Awareness

The CSU Channel Islands Implementation Team seeks to establish a comprehensive framework for Title IX/DHR prevention education programming by addressing key recommendations outlined on pages 29-32 of the CSU Channel Islands Cozen O’Connor report. Collaborating with students, staff, and faculty, this plan seeks to develop an evidence-based educational peer-to-peer programming approach focusing on affirmative consent, bystander intervention, healthy relationships, substance-related education, and the importance of Title IX/DHR proactive supportive measures. The strategy integrates ongoing assessment mechanisms to adapt to evolving campus dynamics and uphold compliance with the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) provisions of the Clery Act. This plan emphasizes a dedication to sustained prevention and education programming, training, and professional development, and seeks to cultivate a campus culture characterized by legal adherence and a culture of respect.

Tasks

1. Allot sufficient budget lines to ensure consistent, baseline funding for personnel, legally-required programming, and technology/learning management systems.

 

Completed

    • Anticipated Project Completion: 6/30/2024
    • Priority Level: 1
    • Notes: Toward this task, we have: (1) funded the position of Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist; (2) funded utilization of Vector’s online educational opportunities for students, (3) Funded a budget for all workshops and programs. CSU Learn resources, provided to the campus at no cost, is used for online educational opportunities for employees.

2. Proactively coordinate with system-level subject matter experts to assist with education, training, materials and communications related to complex and difficult issues facing all CSU institutions.

 

Completed

    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Priority Level: 1
    • Notes: Beginning in February 2025, the Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist has attended monthly meetings with other CSU Campus Preventionists. The group has collaborated on developing programs and resources. It has supported system-wide initiatives such as the Sexual Assault Awareness Month “Slow Down, Think About It” campaign. This system-wide group will continue to meet monthly, with additional support from the Chancellor’s Office beginning in Fall 2025.

3. Designate one individual with specific oversight of all university prevention and education planning and programming, preferably a full-time role without other job responsibilities.

 

Completed

  • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/30/2024
    Priority Level: 1
    Notes: Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist hired Summer 2024 and started 9/16/2024. This role will oversee the prevention education and programming for all undergraduate and graduate students.

4. This coordinator should be tasked with oversight of and responsibility for all legally-required programming under Title IX, the Clery Act, and California law.

 

Completed

    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Priority Level: 1
    • Notes: See Task 3.

5. Convene a University-wide Prevention and Education Oversight Committee to coordinate and align programming across the University.

 

Completed

    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Priority Level: 1
    • Notes: This committee is responsible for the development of learning outcomes for all programing offered by Title IX & Inclusion. These learning outcomes are written using the framework of Bloom’s Taxonomy and are tailored to each event to reflect the goals of Title IX & Inclusion and the partnering office or group. Our Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist has convened the University Prevention and Education Oversight Committee with the support of the Executive Director of Title IX & Inclusion and the Campus Chief of Staff. This group has met bi-weekly throughout the Spring 2025 semester and includes members from the divisions of Academic Affairs, Business and Financial Affairs, Student Affairs, and the Office of the President. The group has identified a list of student groups (Resident Advisors, Club Officers, Embedded Peer Mentors, ASI Leadership) to receive refresher Title IX training and is in the process of developing a calendar of events for the Fall 2025 semester. This committee will host collaborative events and workshops aimed at educating the community about campus policies and fostering a community of mutual respect.

6. The Committee should include all departments who provide training, prevention and education, including, at a minimum, representatives from the Title IX/DHR program, the confidential advocate, student affairs, student health, counseling, UPD, fraternity and sorority life, residential life, human resources and employee labor relations, academic/faculty affairs, DEI professionals, identity-based affinity centers, university subject-matter experts, and staff, faculty, and student representatives.

 

In-Progress

    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2026
    • Priority Level: 2
    • Notes: The committee currently includes representatives from Title IX, Campus Advocate, Student Affairs, Health and Wellness, Counseling, UPD, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Residential Life, Academic Affairs, identity-based organizations, faculty, and the Office of the President. In July, a student representative from Associated Students Inc. will join the committee. Additional members will be identified and added based on the needs of the committee and the University.

7. The Committee should include subcommittees, as determined by the Committee. Committees may focus on the needs of various constituencies (undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, administrators, and faculty) or the types of programming (compliance, professional development, prevention and education, bystander intervention, etc.).

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: The Education and Prevention Oversight Committee has developed the following subcommittees: Professional Development, Prevention and Education Events, and Compliance Logistics. The responsibilities of each subcommittee are detailed below.
      • The Professional Development subcommittee is responsible for reviewing and analyzing all training, presentations, and workshops offered for faculty and staff. Additionally, the subcommittee maintains a calendar of available training opportunities, which is shared each semester with campus groups, including Staff Council and Academic Senate.
      • The Events subcommittee is responsible for creating and reviewing event opportunities for all students. This committee analyzes data from previous events with the goal of increasing reach and access for our students. Additionally, this subcommittee maintains a calendar of events, training sessions, and workshops available to students each semester.
      • The Compliance Logistics subcommittee supports the Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist by reviewing campus communication, tracking annual compliance training, and acting as liaisons between members’ respective divisions and the committee.

8. The Committee should be charged with reviewing prevention program content, evaluating proposed programming or speakers, ensuring that prevention-related communications are reaching all constituents, and developing and implementing a mechanism for assessing effectiveness including by monitoring participation levels and measuring learning outcomes.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: The committee reviews assessments and program development at the end of each term to determine necessary improvements in program planning and event offerings. This enables the committee to assess the needs of the campus community holistically, supporting all populations. The committee evaluates learning outcomes and takeaways to continually enhance programming. These learning outcomes are written using the framework of Bloom’s Taxonomy and are tailored to each event to reflect the goals of Title IX & Inclusion and the partnering office or group. The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist will develop and share out a calendar of events three weeks prior to the start of each semester. The calendar will be sent to faculty and staff through Academic Senate and Staff Council listservs.

9. With assistance from the Chancellor’s Office, develop a strategic plan for university programming that identifies all training requirements under federal and state law and CSU policy, all constituencies and constituent groups in need of training, and all potential university partners that can collaborate to deliver content.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: With support from the Chancellor’s Office and the Education and Prevention Oversight Committee, our Education, Prevention, and Compliance specialist has identified all groups that need training. To that end, beginning in July 2025, all students will receive their Annual Title IX training through CSU Learn. Our office will continue to provide additional training for Residence Life staff, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Embedded Peer Mentors, and all first year and transfer students. Starting in Spring 2025, additional campus offices and organizations will attend Title IX & Inclusion workshops to increase institutional knowledge of our scope and work. These groups include Disability Advocacy and Support Services, Library Staff, Extended University Staff, and Writing and Multi-Literacy Tutors. Additionally, starting in Fall 2025, we will provide training to Associated Students employees, campus clubs and organizations’ leadership teams, and campus-affiliated tutors. Faculty and staff will continue to complete their annual training on CSU Learn and have the opportunity to attend additional sessions offered by our office, which provide further information regarding policy and supporting students. These additional sessions will be offered throughout the school year and upon department request.

10. Constituent groups subject to required training should include students (undergraduate and graduate); targeted student populations (athletes, fraternity and sorority life, residential students, residence life student staff, international students, student leaders); senior leadership; faculty (deans, department chairs, leads, lecturers); staff (managers, supervisors); and campus partners who assist in the implementation of Title IX/DHR.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: All groups currently on campus are already required to participate in training. The Education Prevention Compliance Specialist will evaluate this training for best practices within the Prevention Education Plan for the Fall 2025 semester. This includes training for Greek Life, Resident Advisors, and Embedded Peer Mentors. 

11. Identify all university partners who provide programming, including affinity and identity-based centers and student affairs personnel.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, Compliance Specialist has identified and met with all campus partners who provide programming and seek opportunities to collaborate.

12. Identify opportunities for virtual and in-person engagement.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: The Education Prevention Compliance Specialist will ensure the Prevention Education Plan includes in-person and virtual learning opportunities to increase reach, accessibility, and engagement.

13. Develop core principles and standards for content development.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, Compliance Specialist will work with the Executive Director of Title IX & Inclusion to identify core principles, goals, and assessment metrics for all programming initiatives. Principles and goals include one learning outcome attached to the policy, one collaboration, and an assessment for every event and training.

14. Build a university calendar that includes online modules, social norm campaigns, orientation for students and employees, recurring opportunities for programming, and awareness events.

 

In-Progress

    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Priority Level: 2
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, and Compliance specialist is collaborating with the Education and Prevention Oversight committee to develop a calendar that encompasses all relevant opportunities. This calendar will feature annual training opportunities through CSU Learn, tabling events, workshops, and information about training offered by external partners. We will continue to promote social norms campaigns and post event information on our Instagram. Our calendar will be distributed with our global communication to all campus members at the start of each semester. It will remain available on the education and prevention webpage.

15. Facilitate a consistent communication plan each semester that includes dissemination of the policy, Notice of Non-Discrimination, reporting options and resources.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: ED-TIX will work with the Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist to ensure consistent campus communication. Same as Task 1, global emails will be issued to all students, faculty, and staff at the beginning of each semester

16. Ensure that programming is coordinated, communicated, and tracked.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist will work with the PEOC to ensure that all programs are assessed regularly. All programs, trainings, and workshops are required to have an assessment.

17. Develop a university website dedicated to prevention and campus programming that is kept current, facilitates distribution of prevention and education materials, and incorporates the opportunity for feedback and recommendations.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: The Events, Education, and Training website was launched at the start of the Spring 2025 semester. This website is updated each semester to reflect program and event offerings. Additionally, it provides information on the annual student training and other ways to get involved with education and prevention. The website includes contact information and a booking link to schedule training with our Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist. We have increased our presence on social media, resulting in a 30% rise in profile visits and reaching 4,188 individual accounts in Spring 2025. Our social media outreach has led to increased attendance compared to previous semesters and allowed us to run social media campaigns alongside our regular calendar of events.

18. Identify social media platforms and other vehicles for distributing programming information on a regular basis.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2025
    • Notes: Facebook and Instagram are currently being utilized. The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist and PEOC will evaluate the effectiveness of current social media platforms and create a digital marketing campaign.

19. In conjunction with the Chancellor’s Office, expand professional development and training for faculty and staff, including senior leadership, deans, department chairs, managers and leads on Title IX and DHR; respectful and inclusive environments; conflict resolution; bystander intervention strategies; effective leadership and supervision; and, reporting responsibilities under Title IX, the Clery Act, and CANRA.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: Executive Director of Title IX & Inclusion & Title IX Coordinator has created a prevention education workshop to be delivered annually to Cabinet members, deans and chairs, and directors across campus to ensure all campus leaders and supervisors are aware of reporting obligations, in changes in staffing, policy, or procedures, and receive trauma informed best practices in responding to reports.

20. Ensure the training includes information about prohibited consensual relationships given the significant overlap of prohibited consensual relationships with Title IX, DHR and other conduct of concern.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: Consensual relationship prohibition reminders will be included in all annual training provided.

21. Create routine training, education, and professional development opportunities to cultivate competencies in navigating difficult conversations, bridging differences, and modeling respect and civility.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 9/1/2024
    • Notes: Executive Director of Title IX & Inclusion & Title IX Coordinator will work in collaboration with Human Resources, FASE, and Student Conduct to ensure that there is consistent education across campus to achieve identified competencies in this area.

22. Evaluate the potential opportunities for curricular or course-based programming and credential-based options.

 

In-Progress

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 1/1/2026
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist is collaborating with faculty and other members of the Division of Academic Affairs to identify potential curriculum offerings to be launched no later than Fall 2026. These offerings will represent a partnership between Title IX and Academic Affairs.

23. Incorporate information about the Nondiscrimination Policy, reporting options/obligations, and confidential resources in syllabi statements.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 6/30/2024
    • Notes: Engaged faculty on the importance/benefits of including a statement on faculty syllabi in presentations in fall 2024. A syllabi statement template is available for use and posted on the Title IX & Inclusion website as a resource for faculty. would be provided with the potential to provide the information on Canvas.

24. Commit to providing programming regarding bystander engagement.

 

In-Progress

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 1/1/2025
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist has conducted social media outreach on the topic of bystander intervention. Bystander intervention is integrated into all existing events and training offered for the campus community. Bystander intervention remains a key learning outcome for all program development, with the goal of offering a stand-alone bystander intervention program in collaboration with the University Police Department in Fall 2025.

25. Participate in national conferences, listservs, networking events and other opportunities to coordinate with other professionals dedicated to prevention.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 7/31/2024
    • Notes: President Yao has expressed full support of the professional development of our Title IX/DHR team and relevant campus community members, emphasizing opportunities in alignment with best practices and desired outcomes. Intentionality in utilizing these funds will be paramount. Given the current travel chill due to budgetary constraints, the Office will continue to explore virtual opportunities in alignment with our colleagues.

26. Engage students in the development and delivery of programming through peer educator/peer advocate programs.

 

In-Progress

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 1/1/2026
    • Notes: The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist is partnering with the Wellness Student Assistance Office to help develop and deliver Title IX policy-related programming directly. The budget will be crucial in supporting these efforts. This collaboration is designed to identify opportunities for creating a Title IX & Inclusion Peer Educator Program. The intentional research and allocated funds to initiate this task will constitute an ongoing commitment, aiming for implementation in the 2026-27 academic year.

27. Identify student leaders who can serve as ambassadors/promoters of this work.

 

Ongoing

    • Priority Level: 2
    • Anticipated Project Completion: 8/31/2026
    • Notes: At this time, students from existing campus peer advocacy programs, including Wellness Peer Educators, Mental Health Peers, and Resident Advisors, serve as ambassadors for this work and support program development and delivery. The Education, Prevention, and Compliance Specialist has drafted a plan to create a stand-alone peer advocacy program, aiming to launch this program in Fall 2026.

28. Develop consistent on-campus opportunities to be visible and present in the community.

 

Completed

    • Priority Level: 1
    • Anticipated Project Completion: N/A
    • Notes: Utilizing the communication plan, there will be ongoing evaluation as to the effectiveness of outreach and efforts to increase visibility.
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