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USU Safe Passages for U (SP4U) is a student-led initiative to improve the campus climate at Utah State University (USU). “Safe Passages” began in the Psychology Department as a loose list of individuals willing and able to support those who felt threatened due to the political climate. The original idea was to have a list of people that could walk together and create physical safety in numbers. Many people offered their support. Student leaders wanted these allies to be trained to ensure a baseline level of skills. A small team decided to create a training and outreach component to our program and to extend the program to the entire USU community. The Safe Passages team believes that all students have the right to obtain the best education possible on this campus and to feel safe and supported while doing so. Acts of discrimination and harassment interfere with opportunities to exercise that right. It is not enough to tell underrepresented students where they can go if discrimination and harassment occur. Members of our community should be proactively preventing or interrupting acts of discrimination and harassment. The SP4U team is committed to advancing diversity, promoting inclusion, embracing life-long learning, and encouraging individual and collective action for the betterment of our communities, especially our USU community. We believe the enactment of these values improves our campus and increases equity in academic achievement and personal development of all members of the campus. SP4U is part of a multi-pronged initiative that seeks to educate individuals about diversity issues, empower underrepresented groups, and teach skills for all individuals to navigate and talk about diversity issues. The development of this training, and the associated manuals and app, were funded by a USU Diversity Council Long-Term Grant (2017-2020) to Kaylee Litson (Principal Investigator), Brooke M. Smith, Clarissa W. Ong, Salif Mahamane, Emily Speed, and Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez (Co-Investigators). The USU Safe Passages for U is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Our hope would be that leaders on other campuses would adapt the work for their own context and carry it forward. The work can be cited as: Ong, C. W., Papa, L. A., Reveles, A. K., Smith, B. M., & Domenech Rodríguez, M. M. (2018). Safe Passages for U: Participant's Manual. Logan, UT: Utah State University. Retrieved from: https://osf.io/d5bz7/
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