As our name suggests, MESA is dedicated to ending sexual assault. This means that we are always looking to improve our prevention programming, staying current with the most effective strategies. In this spirit, Sophia and Amanda, MESA’s two prevention educators attended a 4-day bystander intervention training with Green Dot. etc. this month. Green Dot etc. is about culture change – harnessing the power of individual choices to shift our current norms. It was designed by integrating some of the best research on social change, diffusion of innovation, communication, persuasion, bystander intervention, and perpetrator patterns into a program that makes practical sense. Boulder can look forward to MESA implementing some new primary prevention initiatives.