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STEP UP! Advisory Board member Doug Everhart has accepted a new position at UC Irvine as a Health Educator – Alcohol Programs Manager and will be leaving UC Riverside after 12 years. Doug made UCR another University using STEP UP! as the official bystander intervention program on their campus. Doug certainly made his impact at [...]

I’ve received quite a few calls this summer about implementing STEP UP! in the fall. Summer is a GREAT time to become familiar with the materials and to make plans for trainings in the upcoming year. You can present it at orientations, use it with your leadership groups, teach it in classes and collaborate with [...]

You can now follow us on Facebook! Let us know if you see an interesting event, article, or video having to do with bystander intervention. Join the movement – WE CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Here is the link! Tell your friends and let’s spread the word! If you like the site click “Like” up [...]

Talk about STEPPING UP; Talk about Prosocial Behavior; Talk about making a difference! Just saw this video on Ron Hunter the men’s basketball coach at IUPUI . What a great story! It’s amazing what one idea, from one person, can create. Thank you Coach Hunter for your inspiration. What can you do to help create [...]

We have updated the initial STEP UP! Training that you can find on the website under Facilitator’s (then go to Trainings.) We’ve made it a little shorter, revised some of the slides and embedded the videos (made those a little shorter too). If you have never used the training you may want to stick with [...]

Thanks to The BACCHUS Network for having me present STEP UP! at their regional conference. What a great bunch of students and advisors! Special thanks to Cyndra Krogen (CSU Sacramento) and Jenny Nirh (UA) for all of their help. Always nice to discuss things with some budding foxes and owls! Thanks for some great, thoughtful, [...]

Our STEP UP! video is almost ready for its debut! Look for it on our website later this week. We enlisted The University of Arizona Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Greek Life, Faculty, ASUA and our Disability Resource center to put together a fun and informative look at bystander intervention and the STEP UP! program. We [...]

This video is incredible. Watch how 3 security guards just stand around and do nothing as a girl is brutally attacked, her purse stolen and she is kicked in the head multiple times.  The victim told authorities she thought the security guards would protect her and stood by them as the assailants closed in. The [...]

Although not one of our original topics, the beauty of STEP UP! is that it can apply to so many different topics! I watched an eye opening Oprah show recently on the dangers of distracted driving – texting, talking, emailing, etc. You are 4X more likely to get in an accident if you are talking [...]