1. Objective:
1. Learn about the UCF Cares initiative.
2. Learn how to refer peers to care-related programs.
3. Process about the bystander effect.

2. WHAT IS UCF CARES?
UCF Cares is an initiative which seeks to categorize an extensive source of
programs and resources dedicated to fostering a caring community of knights.
It is an initiative that endeavors to help UCF feel like a smaller University by
“building a culture of care, one Knight at a time.”
Answer:

3. WHAT DOES UCF CARES WANT?
UCF Cares wants every Knight to care about the health and safety of their peers,
and feel comfortable empathetically connecting them to the appropriate
resources.
WHAT DOES UCF CARES DO?
Assists in connecting students, staff and faculty with…
1. …care related resources and programs focused on health and safety.
2. ...finding an appropriate network of support.
3. …connecting to advocate programs.
4. …care-related education and training.
Questions:
1. Why would UCF feel interested in wanting to build a more caring
culture?
2. Why would UCF Cares feel interested in specifically lecturing to this
class?

4. UCF CARES WEBSITE; ADD US ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM
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5. “EMPATHY: THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND
SHARE THE FEELINGS OF ANOTHER PERSON.”
Question:
Think about this to yourself; don’t raise your hand and answer.
Did you think of someone who cared for you? Or maybe you thought
about the people you have cared for?

6. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• You’re standing in line at the Subway in the Wellness Center,
when you hear a couple of people in front of you quietly
making fun of another person off to the side.
• They start to use slurs to describe the person.
• Their laughter gets louder as they take out their phones and
snap a photo of the person.
• “Upload that to imgur,” one of them says.
Focus Area: Respect
Workshops:
1. Mentors in Violence Prevention
2. Safe Zone
Resources:
1. Just Knights Response Team
2. Social Justice and Advocacy (LGBQ Services, Multicultural Student Center)

7. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• You are at a house party, hanging out with your friends and
having a really good time.
• One of your really good friends starts touching a person you
don’t know.
• The person being touched tries to walk away, but your friend
begins to follow them around the party.
• Your friend keeps laughing it off, and continues to try to touch
the other person. No one has moved, and some people are
even rolling their eyes or looking away.
Focus Area: Sexual Violence
Resources:
1. Victim Services
2. Not Alone: Coping With Sexual
Assault
3. UCF Shield
4. It’s On Us
5. Sexual Misconduct
Resource Guide
6. “Need Help Now” Form
7. Counseling and Psychological
Services
TW:
Please Don’t
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Stories

8. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• Recently you’ve been able to tell that your friend is exhausted.
They often tell you that they just feel overwhelmed, or that
they can’t look at their homework without crying.
• “Yesterday I thought about doing the homework, but instead I
just went on Netflix,” they tell you, “I spent the whole day on
Netflix. I’m going to fail this class.”
• One day your friend asks, “Do you ever feel like you can’t
handle this anymore?” and later confides in you that they feel
like they might have undiagnosed depression, but they don’t
know.
Focus Area: Mental Health
Workshops:
1. Question, Persuade, Refer Training
Resources:
1. Counseling and Psychological
Services
2. Student Health Services
3. “Need Help Now” Form

9. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• You and your roommate live in on-campus housing.
• Your roommate hasn’t been going to classes, and doesn’t talk
to you at all.
• One day you find that the apartment has been completely
trashed.
• You knock on your roommate’s door, and find that your
roommate is passed out on the bed. There’s an empty handle
of vodka next to them.
What would you have done if this student had not been
passed out?
Focus Area: Safety and Wellbeing
Workshops:
1. Party Smart
2. CHOICES: Lifestyle Change
Support Program
Resources:
1. Student Health Services:
Alcohol and Other Drugs
2. Counseling and Psychological
Services
3. “Need Help Now” Form

10. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING; GO KNIGHTS!
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