The UNCW One in Four organization primarily exists to present "The Men's Program" to other UNCW college men. This program is designed to engage men on the issue of sexual assault and to give them to tools to potentially help a survivor of sexual assault and rape. More information about this program is listed below.

Title:

"How to Help a Sexual Assault Survivor: What Men Can Do."

Format:

All-male, peer education program.

Goals:

Help men understand how to help women recover from rape. Educate men about social norms to help them become less likely to be sexually coercive with women.

Basis:

Rooted in research literature showing the efficacy of all-male, peer education format that relies on victim empathy and increasing men's aversion to rape. Our main attitude is to address men as potential helpers, not as potential rapists.

Content:

Building victim empathy, teaching men how to help women recover from rape, challenging men to examine their own behavior and influence others.

Effects:

Improves men's understanding of how to help women recover from rape. Significantly lowers men's rape myth acceptance and likelihood of raping for an entire academic year - longer than any other program evaluated in the research literature (Schewe, 1999). Fully 75% of "high risk" men who see "The Men's Program" report lower likelihood of raping after the program concludes -- an effect which lasts an entire academic year.

Author:

John D. Foubert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
College Student Development Program
Oklahoma State University
Willard Hall Room 314
Stillwater, OK 74078
(405) 744-1480
John.Foubert@gmail.com