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Care To Act
Supporting a Culture of Caring at UCM
As part of the UCM Office of Health Promotion, the Care To Act approach focuses on preventing harm and supporting the well-being and safety of everyone on campus, by discussing how we can each be caring and engaged community members.
Watch this short video about Care To Act, courtesy of the Digital Media Production program!
The Care To Act Approach
It's intersectional
Our areas of impact are:
- Interpersonal violence
- Substance misuse
- Bias and discrimination
- Mental health
Care To Act addresses these four areas because they affect the well-being and safety of everyone.
It's multi-dimensional
Step 1: the online overview course
The online 
overview course explains our approach to harm prevention, and covers some of the
reasons you might show caring for others. At the end, there's a list of many supportive
resources on campus and in the community. This course is assigned to all new students
at UCM.
To be sure everyone is starting from the same place of understanding, we ask that all group members take this short course before you host a conversation or presentation about Care To Act.
Step 2: the Care To Act Foundational conversation
Care To Act Foundational conversations are facilitated discussions that include scenarios and concepts for further reflection.
Foundational conversations cover ALL FOUR of our focus areas:
- Interpersonal violence
- Substance misuse
- Bias and discrimination
- Mental health
These conversations are either 45 minutes or 90 minutes; you choose the time frame that works best for you.
To maintain the fidelity of the program as designed, hosting a Foundational conversation is required before hosting a Deeper Dive conversation.
Step 3: a Deeper Dive conversation
After your class, student organization, or other group has hosted a Care To Act foundational conversation, please invite us back for a Deeper Dive conversation!
Deeper Dive conversations cover ONE of our four focus areas:
- Interpersonal violence
- Substance misuse
- Bias and discrimination
- Mental health
Deeper Dive conversations are 90 minutes long.
Get Involved!
Host a Care To Act conversation or short presentation
Bring a Care To Act Foundational conversation or Deeper Dive conversation (and swag!) to your classroom, student org, or other group, or request a short presentation (10-20 minutes) about Care To Act for faculty or staff.
Become a Care To Act facilitator
We're always looking to expand our group of facilitators!
Successful Care To Act facilitators will have these skills:
- The ability to facilitate effective conversations with a variety of constituents.
- The ability to create a space for respectful, productive inquiry and discussion.
- An awareness of your own biases and the ability to limit their impact on conversations.
- A passion for wellness education and prevention.
- Baseline knowledge in the four areas of focus addressed in the program - we'll help with that!
- Ability to maintain the privacy of what is shared during facilitated conversations (within the structure of UCM's Title IX-related reporting requirements).
Facilitator registration is through Missouri Partners in Prevention.
Facilitator training takes just 3 hours, and includes access to the Care To Act Facilitator Guide, additional facilitation resources, and support from both Care To Act and Missouri Partners in Prevention staff. As the engage name is used statewide, the facilitator training uses this name as well.
About Care To Act
Care To Act is UCM's presentation of the statewide engage violence prevention strategy, branded for our campus. This program is funded by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services/Office on Women's Health, and was created and developed by Missouri Partners in Prevention, based upon research from the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
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