Green Dot – Official launch at De Anza!

February 21, 2012 |
Valor

This week we have a guest post from Della Duncan and Stacey Carlotta of the YWCA of Silicon Valley (both pictured at left)! They have been busy, getting their community excited about Green Dot and inspired to take action. Read on to hear about how they did it…
Green Dot YWCA Silicon Valley has officially launched! We had our big launch event on campus a few weeks ago when we attended De Anza Club Day. We spent the afternoon at De Anza talking to club leaders, students, faculty advisors, etc. getting the word out about Green Dot, networking, and identifying interested students. We also recently connected with the Department of Human Sexuality and had the opportunity to do two overview speeches to their classes. We currently have three more presentations in our calendar with other classes on February 21 and 22nd. We are collaborating with various club leaders to do overview speeches for Women’s History Month, the International Students Volunteer Club, and the Occupy De Anza Movement. Additionally, we are in contact with the faculty advisor of De Anza clubs to work out an opportunity to present a 3-5 min speech about Green Dot to all of the club leaders. Also part of our launch, we have connected with the newspaper at De Anza, La Voz to coordinate an interview. In the meanwhile, we are also still conducting research about De Anza and have just finalized a survey for students and alumni alike to continue to flesh out our understanding of De Anza and how to best implement Green Dot on their campus. These are exciting times as the movement to reduce violence in our community continues to spread. Stay tuned for more Green Dot updates to come!