Featured Speakers

Thursday, April 4

Hazing Prevention Academy

Presenters: StopHazing Staff

The Hazing Prevention Academy©™ (HPA) is a program geared for professionals with a foundational understanding of hazing and its prevention. The HPA currently emphasizes commitment and capacity building for hazing prevention and provides an overview of the data-driven Hazing Prevention Framework (HPF). The HPA also provides space and time to foster discussion and Q&A opportunities to explore how participants can influence prevention through research-based, collaborative practice. Several evidence-informed implementation strategies, derived directly from the work of institutions involved in the Hazing Prevention Consortium (HPC), are also shared.
Participants can expect to gain a deeper understanding of hazing as a campus-wide climate and culture issue and the intersections of hazing with other campus safety concerns. The training is delivered in a presentation-discussion format in which attendees engage in reflection-based activities, complete self-assessment rubrics given their roles and campuses, and participate in large and small group discussions.

Friday, April 5

The Spectrum of Hazing - Research Insights and Implications for Bystander Intervention and Hazing Prevention Education

Presenters: StopHazing Staff

Adapting from the continuum of sexual violence proposed by Kelly (1987) and the bystander intervention program Bringing in the Bystander (e.g., Edwards et al., 2019; McMahon et al., 2014), StopHazing researchers have outlined the Spectrum of Hazing with three non-exclusive categories of intimidation, harassment, and violence hazing. Intimidation hazing behaviors, such as isolation and acting as a personal servant to other members, occur most frequently—as conceptualized within the Spectrum of Hazing—but are infrequently recognized as hazing, suggesting a normalization of these actions (Allan, 2008; Allan et al., 2019). Alternatively, violence hazing behaviors—such as forced consumption of alcohol and branding new members—occur less frequently but are more readily recognized as hazing by students and other community members.
This session will provide participants with an overview of the principles of prevention science, The Spectrum of Hazing, and bystander intervention; highlight quantitative and qualitative research results informing the Spectrum of Hazing; and discuss implications for campus hazing prevention.
Participants who attend this session will be able to explain how the Spectrum of Hazing can be used as a tool for understanding campus hazing and how normalized or more frequently occuring hazing behaviors (i.e., intimidation hazing) may be predictive of student experiences with less frequently occurring hazing (i.e., harassment and violence hazing). Further, participants will be asked to consider the implications from these findings that may serve to bolster institutional commitment for hazing prevention and impact bystander intervention programming and education focused on hazing prevention.

10 Signs of Healthy & Unhealthy Groups: A toolkit, training, and facilitation materials

Presenters: StopHazing Staff

Designed to help groups identify healthy and unhealthy behaviors and dynamics, StopHazing led the development of the 10 Signs of Healthy & Unhealthy Groups: Toolkit in collaboration with One Love, a dating violence prevention organization. The resource translates One Love’s 10 Signs of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships framework to a group context. Researchers and practitioners have identified a gap in resources that support groups in building healthy group and team environments, relationships, and dynamics as a hazing prevention strategy. This resource supports hazing prevention while also amplifying reflection and skill building for ethical leadership and bystander intervention.
With that in mind, the toolkit and a subsequent pilot study of companion training and facilitation materials was conducted at institutions across the U.S. This session will highlight the intersections of hazing and its prevention with characteristics of healthy and unhealthy group behaviors, overview of the toolkit and training, pilot study implications, and share additional supporting resources for research-based hazing prevention with participants.