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SAPAC/Athletic Collection Collaboration

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In 1998, SAPAC and the UM Athletics Department collaborated to create a series of workshops for student athletes about sexual assault prevention. The following materials in this collection reflect these efforts. SAPAC and staff from the Athletics Department (including legendary football figure Greg Harden) designed documents presented here as a guide for facilitators leading a SAPAC workshop for student athletes.

Both the title (“Violence Against Women Training”) and content of these documents feature gendered language that emphasize women as the targets of sexual assault and intimate partner violence by a male perpetrator. The workshops also include a discussion about Michigan laws concerning sexual assault and intimate partner violence, suggestions for bystander intervention, and case studies about “Dating Violence” and “Sexual Assault” in which participants were read a scenario and asked about how they would react. Student athletes were also shown a video. Throughout the workshop, participants were asked to think about their roles as friends or peers in enabling a culture of sexual assault. A small portion of the training addresses how to support a friend who has experienced sexual assault.

This workshop is not necessarily the exact type of training the student athletes who filled out surveys that are available on this archive received. However, it does offer insight into SAPAC’s pedagogical approach and workshop structure to educate student groups, teams, and organization, and one way they strove to raise awareness about sexual assault prevention in partnership with other UM departments and organizations.

Content Notification

Some of the pages in these workshop guidelines include graphic descriptions of scenarios that could lead to and examples of sexual assault.

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  1. Sexual Assault Prevention at the University of Michigan Gianna May Sanchez