Green Dot Program

      The Green Dot Program is a nationwide program to help prevent sexual violence such as, rape, relationship violence, or stalking. If you are interested in furthering your knowledge about the Green Dot Program, go check out the UK http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/VIPCenter/learn_greendot.php. How the green Dot Program works is with an online map of campus, that will show green and red dots. Green dots represent the save areas, where no sexual violence has occurred. On the other hand, the red dots represents just the opposite, they represent a recent act of personal violence. To get more green dots, we as a community need to support and help prevent sexual violence on campus, by helping those in need. Easy ways to gain green dots for example is by spreading the word about preventing sexual violence, simply by talking with friends, email, or using social media, and donations also help too. Ways you can show your support for the Green Dot Program is by, placing green dot stickers on some of your personal belongings, where green dot shirts, and being social to anyone about the Green Dot Program. "It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there" (President Obama,  http://www.washingtonpost.com/). To me that statistics is way to high, and very scary for the women on our campus.  After my research of the Green Dot Program, I fully support this great program. Some questions I am left with are, who started the Green Dot Program, and when did it start? How strong is the support nationwide for the Green Dot Program?