JWI’s Change the Culture initiative encourages young men to cultivate healthy masculinity, reevaluate societal norms, and build supportive communities through leadership, mentorship, and allyship.

In partnership with Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity and campus Hillels, JWI works with students to uplift positive norms and attitudes and implement sexual and dating violence prevention programs. Through this work students learn how to challenge harmful gender norms, ask for consent, be an active bystander, support survivors, shutdown victim blaming, identify abusive relationships, be a positive role model, and build a culture of respect.

As a grantee of the U.S. Office on Violence Against Women, JWI is featured in the booklet Highlights from the Field: The Children and Youth and Engaging Men and Boys Grant Program, compiled by Serving Our Youth. View the booklet here (JWI is featured on p. 10).

To learn more about our programs for college students, contact Deborah Rosenbloom.

Programs for Greek Life

Since 2014, JWI has partnered with Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity to provide prevention programming to create stronger and safer Greek communities. Together we have reached over 4,000 Greek students at over 50 campuses nationwide. JWI has received two Laurel Wreath Awards from the National Interfraternity Conference in recognition of our unique and innovative programs with ZBT.

Safe Smart Dating, developed in partnership with Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau, is the first national program on bystander intervention, dating abuse and sexual violence prevention for the Greek campus community.
Green Light Go is a campus-wide game of Red Light/Green Light that teaches about enthusiastic consent. The game is accompanied by programming about consent, boundaries, and supporting survivors.
Game Change is an interactive bystander intervention training teaches intervention strategies for responding to sexual assault. Game Change helps students recognize and overcome challenges and barriers to intervention.
Brother to Brother - Training for Bigs guides fraternity men to mentor little brothers and use their influence to make a positive impact. It seeks to uplift qualities of healthy masculinity, cultivate supportive chapters, and promote bystander intervention.
Healthy Masculinity Workshop examines gendered social norms, culture, and traditional images of manhood. It also looks at the positive and negative perceptions of fraternity men and how they influence chapter culture.
Let’s Talk About College is a workshop that prepares male high school students for the transition to college through conversations with fraternity members on leadership, campus culture, manhood, consent, alcohol, peer pressure, fraternity life, freedom, and achieving success.

Programs for Hillels

JWI partners with Hillels across the country, ranging from Emory to Northwestern to Columbia to the University of Maryland and campuses in between, to make prevention education a part of the Jewish student experience. JWI provides training to Hillel staff on responding to sexual and dating violence and led workshops at Hillel International: Global Assembly in 2018 and 2019.

As A Jewish Man is a documentary exploring diverse experiences at the intersection of religion, gender norms, family pressures, and historical trauma through the stories of nine young men. Through a series of 3-5 minute “mini documentaries,” it unpacks the unique challenges and opportunities of being a Jewish man today.
Healthy Relationship Shabbat creates a space for students to explore and reflect on components of a healthy relationship. The Shabbat friendly activities highlight the power of support networks and celebrate cultivating healthy relationships.
Kavod - Addressing Sexual Violence in the LGBTQ Jewish Student Community explores how sexual and dating violence are experienced by LGBTQ Jewish college students, the challenges and barriers to seeking support, and the community’s unique position in preventing and addressing sexual violence.
Change the Culture - Campus Conversations is a multimedia, peer-led workshop consisting of guided conversations, each focusing on a different aspect of sexual violence or consent. The conversations are designed to encourage students to reflect on campus norms and build a culture of consent.
What’s That Really About, JWI’s public awareness campaign, includes a series of posters that challenge students to consider the question and how their everyday attitudes, language and behaviors can contribute to a culture that permits sexual and dating violence.
Let My People Go: Pesach, Power, and Privilege, using the story of Passover to bring awareness to the power differentials being enacted through us and around us - specifically because of our gender-identities.
Unmasking Masculinity: A Purim Program, which offers a thoughtful reframing of the Purim story and to use the text as a means of fostering discussion about how to uplift healthier behaviors and norms around masculinity within the Jewish community.