Trainings

This training is designed for any employees serving as a Title IX Coordinator or deputy on a college or university campus. This training will cover the essential tools that Title IX Coordinators must utilize to ensure that their institutions are compliant with federal and state regulations. It will also review and demonstrate best practices in Title IX adjudication.

Presenters:
Day 1: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro
Day 2/3: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

Identify, prevent, and respond to forms of image-based abuse such as the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, sextortion, cyberflashing, and synthetic image abuse.

Presenter:  Adam Dodge

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for Title IX cases. Topics covered include the legal underpinnings of Title IX for colleges and universities, due process obligations, the Clery Act amendments to the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and NY state-specific compliance requirements. Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of sexual misconduct and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters:
Day 1 - Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3 - Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for general student conduct hearings. Topics covered include the due process obligations on colleges and universities, FERPA and confidentiality considerations, effective questioning, and best practices in decision-making.

Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of student misconduct, and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters:
Day 1: Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

There are specific requirements, and specific skill sets related to conducting fair, equitable, and thorough sexual and interpersonal violence investigations. This training, led by Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger, M.A., J.D., will guide participants through a Title IX investigation from complaint intake to completion of the investigative report. This training focuses on practical approaches to this work, providing best practice insight from a national expert who will provide learners with thoughtful considerations on approaching investigations. Areas of focus include the impact of exemplary investigative techniques in developing TIX Investigative reports and best practice in approaches to communication with all parties. Our TIX Investigator Training is narrowly tailored for campus personnel with direct and ancillary obligations to investigate and adjudicate sexual and interpersonal violence on college campuses.

Presenter: Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger

This highly interactive workshop builds upon the information provided in SCI's Title IX Investigator training and offers participants a chance to put themselves in the role of the investigator in a hypothetical investigation. Participants will practice the skills of comprehensive interviewing, summarizing relevant information from interviews, and handling party responses to evidence review.

Presenter: Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger

This training is designed for any employees serving as a Title IX Coordinator or deputy on a college or university campus. This training will cover the essential tools that Title IX Coordinators must utilize to ensure that their institutions are compliant with federal and state regulations. It will also review and demonstrate best practices in Title IX adjudication.

Attendance at all sessions is required for completion of training.

Presenters:

Day 1 - Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2 - Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro
Day 3 - Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

With the October 1st deadline to publish your annual Clery report right around the corner now is the perfect time to go through a final check to make sure yours is shipshape. This session with Clery Act expert S. Daniel Carter will guide you through a brief point-by-point review of everything needed to be in full compliance, where last minute updates may be needed, how the 2024 Title IX Rule affects your report, and tips for using the report to engage with the entire community on campus safety issues. It will also help you begin planning for next year.

Presenter: S. Daniel Carter

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for Title IX cases. Topics covered include the legal underpinnings of Title IX for colleges and universities, due process obligations, the Clery Act amendments to the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and NY state-specific compliance requirements. Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of sexual misconduct, and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters:
Day 1: Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for general student conduct hearings. Topics covered include the due process obligations on colleges and universities, FERPA and confidentiality considerations, effective questioning, and best practices in decision-making.

Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of student misconduct, and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters:
Day 1: Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

SPARC provides training to multidisciplinary professionals working with stalking victims or offenders. SPARC does not provide training to victims, students, or the general public.

SPARC trainings are for professionals who seek to increase their understanding of stalking and enhance their skills in working with stalking victims or offenders. Our trainings are victim-centered, research informed, and practice based. We are available to work with practitioners on the local, regional, statewide, and national levels. 

Presenter:  SPARC

Join us for our Residence Life Summer In-Service series! Throughout this week in July, the SUNY SCI will be bringing workshops and courses designed for Residence Life and Housing professionals and paraprofessionals with overlapping student conduct responsibilities! These trainings are designed to supplement the training and onboarding plans that institutions already utilize to best service students.

Presenters: Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

The Brain Under Attack: Understanding Impacts on Experience, Behavior, and Memory

Traumatic experiences have immediate, powerful, and potentially long-lasting effects on the human brain. This presentation explains, in very accessible ways, how stress and trauma can alter brain functioning during sexual assaults and other traumas. Participants will learn about the key brain circuitries impacted by stress and trauma, including the prefrontal cortex and defense and memory circuitries. Participants will gain increased understanding of brain-based experiences, behaviors, and memory characteristics and learn important implications for their work with victims of sexual assault and other violence. This presentation provides a critical foundation for learning and applying trauma-informed responses with people who have been assaulted.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to define key brain circuitries impacted by severe stress in the midst of traumatic experiences, from sexual assault to military combat.
• Participants will be able to name and explain common brain-based subjective and behavioral responses to sexual and other assaults that have implications for supporting victims and conducting investigations and prosecutions.
• Participants will be able to explain basic brain-based impacts of trauma and stress on memory encoding, storage, and retrieval that have implications for supporting victims and conducting investigations and prosecutions.

Presenter:  Dr. Jim Hopper

SPARC provides training to multidisciplinary professionals working with stalking victims or offenders. SPARC does not provide training to victims, students, or the general public.

SPARC trainings are for professionals who seek to increase their understanding of stalking and enhance their skills in working with stalking victims or offenders. Our trainings are victim-centered, research informed, and practice based. We are available to work with practitioners on the local, regional, statewide, and national levels. 

Presenter: SPARC

Trauma Informed Interviewing in Sexual Assault Investigations
Navigating the landscape of sexual assault investigations is complex. Less than 50% of all sexual assault victims ever make a report to police or authorities. It is critical that anyone taking reports understand the complex psychological, cultural, and social challenges that sexual assault victims face. Victims who speak about their assault can be misunderstood and met with a wide range of negative reactions, including disbelief, shame, and blame. These reactions not only cause further damage to victims but hinder successful investigations.

Getting an accurate interview from the victim is critical
Trauma has unique effects on the brain including the areas of the brain responsible for processing information and encoding memory. Many sexual assault victims experience some degree of memory loss. Trauma informed interviewing takes this into account and helps interviewers structure questions that elicit information in a fashion other than a traditional chronological narrative.

Trauma informed interviewing however is more than asking questions in a certain way. It is also considering the many facets that create the best atmosphere for allowing a victim to relay information. This course will explain how an interviewer can facilitate a process to allow a victim the greatest opportunity to successfully share their experience.

Presenters: Nancy Oglesby & Mike Milnor 

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for general student conduct hearings. Topics covered include the due process obligations on colleges and universities, FERPA and confidentiality considerations, effective questioning, and best practices in decision-making.

Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of student misconduct, and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters:  

Day 1 - Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3 - Ryan Ribeiro, Alex Wheeler

SPARC provides training to multidisciplinary professionals working with stalking victims or offenders. SPARC does not provide training to victims, students, or the general public.

SPARC trainings are for professionals who seek to increase their understanding of stalking and enhance their skills in working with stalking victims or offenders. Our trainings are victim-centered, research informed, and practice based. We are available to work with practitioners on the local, regional, statewide, and national levels. 

Presenter:  SPARC

This training is designed for all employees serving as decision-makers within the hearing board or panel for Title IX cases. Topics covered include the legal underpinnings of Title IX for colleges and universities, due process obligations, the Clery Act amendments to the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and NY state-specific compliance requirements. Attendees will examine and progress through a sample case of sexual misconduct and develop and practice skills critical to adjudicating these kinds of cases.

Presenters: 

Day 1 - Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3 - Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

This training is designed for any employees serving as a Title IX Coordinator or deputy on a college or university campus. This training will cover the essential tools that Title IX Coordinators must utilize to ensure that their institutions are compliant with federal and state regulations. It will also review and demonstrate best practices in Title IX adjudication.

Attendance at all sessions is required for completion of training.

Presenters:

Day 1- Andrew Stammel, Rebecca Novick
Day 2/3 - Alex Wheeler, Ryan Ribeiro

In this interactive session, participants will learn the specific tools that will help them to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue and increase compassion satisfaction. Based on Dr. Jill Bassett- Cameron's research and over20 years in higher education, she has designed this workshop to be engaging while providing helpful tools. 

Presenter: Dr. Jill Bassett-Cameron