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The Hawaii Air National Guard strengthens anti violence education with the Green Dot training.
The Green Dot program is a new training regimen that is being integrated into the total Air Force. The initiative aims to give people the power to demonstrate their individual commitment to ending violence.
“Green Dot is a violence prevention and awareness program focusing on a bystander approach.” said Senior Airman Ryan Buffett, Command Post Controller with the 154th Wing command post, and Green Dot coordinator. “It focuses on combating all violence, not just limiting itself to one form.”
Green Dot is replacing the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program in the Air Force.
“The Air Force has been looking for a violence prevention program to replace SAPR, as it was not getting the results that the DoD wanted.” Buffett said. “Green Dot statistically has the best results so the Air Force decided to adopt this program for the next five years. In short, Green Dot is Air Force wide and we are the only branch out of all the military
components using it.”
One of the things the training started out with was talking about barriers which prevents Green Dot success.
“The program allows people to acknowledge barriers within their personalities that would prevent them from intervening or helping someone who is about to or has suffered from violence.” said Buffett. “Once people have acknowledged their barrier, we then teach techniques to get around those barriers and make a difference.”
The idea behind Green Dot is that just raising awareness of violence is not enough and that only a cultural change sparked by many will be the catalyst required to stop violence.
“Aside from violence, social media is the biggest culture we have and we saw how it could change… simply taking two minutes or less to put in an email and password.” Buffett said. “We can take that same approach to combating violence if everybody does one small thing.”
With the Green Dot program in effect the Air Force hopes to lower violence by 50 percent over the next five years. The goal is to have all active-duty, Guard, and Reserve airmen trained in Green Dot by Dec. 31, 2016.
“I believe in the program and believe that we can change the culture.” said Buffett. ”Remember, ‘No one has to do everything… everyone must do something.’ As long as everyone does their part, we can win.”
| Date Taken: | 09.23.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 09.29.2016 20:45 |
| Story ID: | 210956 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII, US |
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