Green Dot — Bystander-Training Strategy Against Sexual & Dating Violence, Kentucky High Schools

Green Dot is a bystander-training strategy for preventing sexual violence, dating/domestic violence and stalking, created in 2006 by Dr Dorothy Edwards at the University of Kentucky's Violence Intervention and Prevention Center. The model trains a critical mass of students (originally on college campuses, later in high schools) to recognise high-risk situations ("red dots") and intervene through direct action, distraction or delegation ("green dots"), combining a school-wide overview talk with intensive small-group skills workshops for peer-influential students.
The strongest evidence comes from a CDC-funded cluster-randomised controlled trial across 26 Kentucky high schools (13 intervention, 13 waitlist control), surveying students annually from 2010 to 2014 (89,707 completed surveys in total). Coker et al. (2017, American Journal of Preventive Medicine) reported fewer sexual-violence, sexual-harassment, stalking and dating-violence events in intervention schools than in control schools by Years 3-4 of full implementation, and the U.S. National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions clearinghouse independently rates the programme "Promising".
The evidence is not uniform: victimisation outcomes were more weakly significant than perpetration outcomes, and CrimeSolutions notes that significant perpetration reductions were concentrated among female students, with no significant perpetration difference detected for male students on some measures. No cost-effectiveness data were located.

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