{"id":10739,"date":"2021-02-12T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2025-08-03T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:02:23","slug":"educational-programs-available-on-request-from-upd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2021\/02\/12\/educational-programs-available-on-request-from-upd\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational programs available on request from UPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10741 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2021\/02\/UPD-badge-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The Western Carolina University Police Department is offering free programming that is available for classrooms, residence halls, student groups, and campus departments\/organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Officers will speak with your group on topics such as self-defense, drugs\/alcohol, how to respond to an active-shooter event, sexual assault risk awareness, and many more. These programs are part of the campus police department\u2019s continued efforts to keep students, faculty, and staff informed and aware about issues around campus. Each presentation runs approximately one hour and can be modified to fit into limited timeframes.<\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19, the WCU Police Department is now offering live and pre-recorded Zoom programs. Some hands-on programs are being modified to fit in accordance with social distancing guidelines. Officers can work with you to produce a program that fits your needs.<\/p>\n<p>Current Programming Options<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crime Prevention and Services<\/li>\n<li>Rape Aggression Defense<\/li>\n<li>Report It<\/li>\n<li>Drug Risk Awareness<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol Risk Awareness<\/li>\n<li>Dating\/Domestic Violence and Stalking<\/li>\n<li>Traffic\/DWI Awareness<\/li>\n<li>Run, Hide, Fight- Surviving an Active Shooter Event<\/li>\n<li>Sexual Assault Risk Awareness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Sgt. Brittany Thompson at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bbthompson@wcu.edu\">bbthompson@wcu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or at 828.227.3204.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcu.edu\/discover\/campus-services-and-operations\/university-police\/programming.aspx\">More information<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wcu.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3sLDUWsfhN2G8kd?Q_JFE=qdg\"><strong>Request a program<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Carolina University Police Department is offering free programming that is available for classrooms, residence halls, student groups, and campus departments\/organizations. Officers will speak with your group on topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10747,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions\/10747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}