CLAREMONT, Calif. – All 21 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletic teams have successfully completed the 7C Teal Dot Basics Bystander Engagement Training program. This endeavor was started in the 2022-2023 season and completed this year in January.
Assistant athletic trainer Jesse Purcell, a member of the 7C Teal Dot Committee, has facilitated or co-facilitated all of the CMS team trainings. "It's been my goal to get all CMS teams trained in Teal Dot since I became a facilitator," said Purcell. "Accomplishing it for all 21 sports has been incredible, and speaks highly of the CMS Athletics administration and coaches' commitment to reducing campus sexual violence. I'm grateful to the department and coaches for supporting this goal and agreeing to make it a permanent part of student-athlete Title IX education."
CMS Title IX and Teal Dot
Purcell & Associate AD, Rachana Bhat became co-chairs for the CMS Title IX Committee in the fall of 2022. Teal Dot became part of the required rotational Title IX (TIX) educational programming for all student-athletes which debuted in the 2023-2024 academic year. Through Purcell's involvement and the Teal Dot Committee's approval, the CMS Title IX Committee has been able to tailor the Teal Dot presentation for athletics to include team-based scenarios that relate and prepare participants to intervene in social and team-based situations.
Teams complete 3 programs every three years as part of the Title IX rotational educational programming. In addition to Teal Dot the other rotational programs include:
- TIX Jeopardy: Led by one of the 3C Title IX Coordinators and reviews TIX processes, a TIX coordinator's role, confidential and non-confidential on and off campus resources as well as the history of TIX
- Healthy Relationships Workshop: a workshop developed by the 7C EmPOWER Center for CMS TIX that engages student-athletes in conversations about how to establish healthy boundaries, signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships as well as how to support survivors of power-based personal violence
The goals of CMS TIX are that by completing these trainings as a team, it empowers student-athletes at all levels with peer support when encountering situations of power-based personal violence and encourages them as leaders on our campuses in intervention and response.
For more information about CMS Title IX please visit our website:
https://cmsathletics.org/sports/2024/8/13/title-ix.aspx
Teal Dot
Teal Dot is a program established by and run through the 7C EmPOWER Center by Director Rima Shah, who also leads the 7C Teal Dot Committee. The first Teal Dot program debuted at the 7Cs in 2013. It is based on the educational curriculum of Green Dot, a national bystander engagement program. The trainings are designed to teach individuals how to identify high-risk situations and intervene in safe ways to prevent sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. The color teal was used for the program name as it is the color of the sexual assault awareness and prevention month of April.
The 7C Teal Dot Committee includes members from across the Claremont Colleges and meets bi-weekly during the year to plan Teal Dot trainings and review community feedback. Several "Open Sessions" are held each semester on different campuses and are available to all students, faculty and staff.
For more information about the Teal Dot and Green Dot programs, see the following links:
EmPOWER Center website
https://www.7csupportandprevention.com/
EmPOWER Center Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/empowercenterclaremont/
Green Dot Program
https://alteristic.org/green-dot/
