Active Bystander Sessions

Our Active Bystander Sessions are aimed to promote conversations around bystandership and how they can help support people within the community or workplace.

We will provide attendees with the knowledge and the tools to safely support or challenge others and how you can empower others to step up or ask for help from allies or other services including the Police.

These sessions are aimed to keep yourself and others safe and enable you to take an active role in gaining some further knowledge around being an ‘Active Bystander’ and how to support victims of abuse.

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Define the role of a bystandership in the prevention of harm and abuse within your own community.

• Discuss inhibitors that prevent bystander action.

• Identify a range of tools that can be used to safely support and challenge others.

• Discuss ways to support individuals that may discuss abuse

• Practice the use of bystander tools.

• Discuss the topic of sexual violence and harassment and how a bystander can support this abuse.

This opportunity supports the JogOn Campaign. JogOn is an action plan to tackle runner harassment, to encourage victims and witnesses to report incidents and ensure that there are consequences for unacceptable behaviour.

Information and support will also be given around the 'Ask for Angela' campaign. Ask for Angela is a national scheme that helps anyone who is feeling vulnerable on a night out to get the support they need. We will provide you with information about how the scheme works, how you can use it and how we support it in Bradford.

If you would like to book your spot – Active Bystander Training Tickets, Monday, June 1  •  1 PM - 3 PM | Eventbrite

If you would like any further info or to discuss further, please contact - Becki O'Grady - Rebecca.O'Grady@westyorkshire.police.uk