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Sexual Violence Prevention at Northern Lights College
Promoting respect, communication, and safer communities across our campuses.
The third week September each year, Northern Lights College participates in Consent Awareness Week, a national initiative designed to engage students, faculty, and staff in conversations about sexual consent, healthy relationships, and community responsibility.
This campaign reflects our college’s commitment to building safer, more respectful spaces for everyone, and supports the provincial ministry’s ongoing mandate to prevent sexualized violence on BC campuses.
What is Consent?
Consent is a freely given, ongoing, enthusiastic, and informed agreement to participate in a specific activity. Consent cannot be assumed based on relationship status, silence, or past interactions—and it can be withdrawn at any time.
Consent is about respect, communication, and choice.
Why Consent Awareness Matters
Consent Awareness Week is an opportunity for the NLC community to:
- Reflect on the role we each play in preventing sexual violence
- Learn how to ask for—and give—clear consent
- Explore how to recognize unhealthy or coercive behaviours
- Understand how to support survivors and respond to disclosures appropriately
These efforts are part of our broader work to create a campus culture rooted in safety, dignity, and accountability.
Join Us for Consent Awareness Week Events—September 15—19, 2025
NLC campuses will host a range of events and learning opportunities throughout the week, including:
- Consent & Coffee Pop-Ups Drop by for a free coffee and pick up resources on what consent looks like in everyday life.
- “What Does Consent Mean to You?” Campaign Participate in a creative project by sharing your voice through art, words, or video.
- Interactive workshops during Orientation
- Campus-wide campaigns (poster, digital content)
Watch for event listings on social media and on the events calendar on the NLC homepage. - Training Sessions for classes, student groups, and staff featuring bystander skills, healthy communication and consent education.
Training & Education
- The Learning Support team engages students through out the year by offering training Sessions for classes, student groups, and staff featuring bystander skills, healthy communication and consent education. NLC partners with agencies in community to support the delivery of trauma-informed materials.
- Sexual Violence Prevention Brightspace Desire to Learn (D2L) course is an online, self-paced course that is intended to provide learners with the knowledge and strategies for building communities of consent. The material will cover the impacts of sexual violence on everyone that has been harmed. Understand the various types of sexual violence, and review definitions of consent in Canadian law. It teaches learners about what violence can look like, why it happens, and four strategies to respond if they see if happening.
- For staff and faculty NLC offers webinars to support responses to disclosures
and how to uphold policy guidelines.
Educational Videos
Consent Video:
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Video Credit to: Royal Roads University
Relationships and Boundaries:
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Video Credit to: Royal Roads University
Active Bystander:
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Video Credit to: Royal Roads University
How to Support a Survivor of Sexual Violence:
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Video Credit to: Royal Roads University
Tea Consent Video
Video Credit to: Animator, Emmeline May of RockStarDinosaurPrincess and Blue Seat Studios.