Reed College
Reed College

Sexual Health, Advocacy & Relationship Education

Our student-driven program

Sexual Health, Advocacy & Relationship Education—SHARE—is Reed’s student-driven, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered program to provide resources, services, and information about both healthy sexuality and relationships and sexual and relationship violence prevention. 

Resources

Confidential Advocacy

Confidential support for those experiencing interpersonal violence, including sexual harassment, relationship abuse, unwanted sexual contact, sexual assault, and stalking.

SHARE Packages

Free, confidential, online safer sex supply ordering service. Delivered to your on-campus mailbox or sent (discreetly!) to U.S. addresses via USPS within two weeks.

Night Owls

Peer resources for reducing harm and promoting safety—and, we have snacks. Text us at 844-458-3067.

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Outreach & Advocacy

Reed's Outreach & Advocacy team includes Peer Educators—on-campus leaders who coordinate awareness and engagement events to promote a culture of consent and respect. They also provide violence prevention and healthy relationships education to students and the broader campus community through workshops, tabling events, and campaigns.

Check out our SHARE Blog! It's still in the building phase, but soon, you will find upcoming events, peer collected resources, Night Owl 101 and more. 

Visit the SHARE Blog

Follow SHARE on Instagram

Upcoming SHARE Events

About SHARE

SHARE’s mission is to foster a safe and supportive campus. We are committed to cultivating and inspiring a culture that values autonomy, mutual respect, and the full realization of consent. We do so by offering confidential, survivor-centered advocacy services; facilitating connections to resources on and off campus; and providing harm reduction and bystander intervention education as well as resources encouraging healthy sexuality and relationships.

Student-Driven

SHARE is a peer resource—both our Night Owls and Peer Educators (on the Outreach & Advocacy team) are students—to prevent harm and promote healthy relationships. All SHARE students are here to help navigate campus resources and advocate for real cultural change in support of those with personal or allied experiences of sexual and relationship violence.

Trauma-Informed

To be trauma-informed, a program must tend to the Four R’s of Trauma-Informed Care: it must seek to realize the widespread impact of trauma on all persons; recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma; respond to the impact of such trauma by fully integrating this knowledge into its practices; and actively resist retraumatization in all its pursuits.

Survivor-Centered

You are the most trusted source of information about your story, your experiences, and what options are best for you. To be truly survivor-centered, all elements of the trauma-informed approach are incorporated, and establishing safety, trust, transparency, and empowerment are at the heart of each relationship. 

  • We provide options and information, not advice and direction. 
  • We are strengths-based and resiliency-forward; you are stronger, more knowledgeable, and more powerful than you may have been told to believe you are. 
  • We empower the survivor to exercise autonomy to the fullest extent, emphasizing survivor voice and choice, respect, and non judgment for the diverse ways we engage in our stories.