As a new Lehigh student this is your opportunity to learn more about the Survivor Support Advocates and Break the Silence Peer Educators, as well as ways that you can get involved in their work to create a survivor supportive campus.
Lehigh University’s Advocates are a group of dedicated and compassionate Lehigh University staff and faculty members who volunteer and are trained to support survivors of gender violence. Advocates are also able to assist other Lehigh students who have been impacted by gender violence including friends, partners, and family members of survivors. They are able to provide belief and support, as well as options and referrals. An Advocate is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Break the Silence or BTS is a peer education organization whose mission is to spread awareness about gender violence including sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, stalking, sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment and to prevent gender violence through healthy sexuality education. BTS facilitates trainings on topics such as sexuality education, consent, sex communication, bystander intervention, relationships, and gender based violence. They also run large campus wide events, such as the 5 Senses of Consent, Sex in the Dark, Take Back the Write, Take Back the Night, and sLUt Walk. They are a close knit group of passionate students committed to diversity and inclusion, preventing gender based violence, and uplifting healthy pleasurable intimate relationships. Their goal is to make their peers feel comfortable, empowered, and educated so that sex and pleasure can become part of everyday conversations.
Please feel free to bring your lunch. Beverages and desserts will be served.

Hosted by: Break the Silence, NavigateLU Administration, Survivor Support and Intimacy Education

Additional Information can be found at: lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10357925