The PAGE Center embraces all university community members who support the well-being of gender-based violence survivors, LGBTQ students, women, LGBTQ men, and agender students. The Center offers educational programming, specialized resources, celebrations of the communities' achievements and supports the pursuit of social justice.
Be a part of a safer, more inclusive educational environment.
Using trauma-informed and empowerment frameworks to guide our actions, staff and volunteers of the PAGE Center support and advocate for victims of sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and other gender-based crimes. The PAGE Center Director is a confidential resource for survivors of sexual or physical violence. We provide lessons and materials relevant to LGBTQ communities, including interrupting systems of sexism, homophobia and transphobia, and racism.
The center offers:
- welcoming, women-affirming, LGBTQ-affirming environment
- PAGE Center Director as a confidential resource to discuss sexual/physical victimization
- resources for learning and matters relevant to gender-based violence and violence prevention
- resources for learning and matters relevant to LGBTQ communities, and the dismantling of systems of sexism, misogyny, and misogynoir
- resources for consent and healthy relationships, sexual harassment, LGBTQ safer zones, bystander engagement presentations, and more
- a small all-gender clothing closet of folded and hanging clothes free and available to any campus member (Special gratitude for regular contributions by the SU First Lady Colleen Patterson)
- a space with computers, television, comfort, and more
- an all-gender restroom
- a lactation room with a fridge
- FREE contraceptives and pregnancy test items
Additional PAGE Center Information
PAGE Center Upcoming Events
The Center for PAGE has a number of events and activities planned during the fall term to educate and empower students about gender in/equity, healthy relationships consent and culture change, and LGBTQ experience. Below is the Fall calendar with detail and brief summaries of our activities.
Trainings & Engagement
We offer a number of gender- and sexuality-focused presentations. Please email us to request a lesson at page@ship.edu.
Consent and Healthy Relationships
College-aged students experience significantly higher incidence of sexual and physical violence. Normalizing discussions of sexuality and permission, providing definitions of consent and harm, and equipping students to engage with one another for accountability and cultural change are a critical part of violence prevention. This class-length lesson provides information about sexual consent, healthy relationships, cultural norms that reproduce and justify harmful behavior, and peer/bystander engagement skills to create change. This is a good lesson for classrooms and student groups. Presentation with facilitated discussion and activities.
Associated campus events: Domestic Violence Tulip Memorial (October), It’s On Us, Ship! Peer to Peer (August through May), Take Back the Night (April).
Please email us to request a lesson at page@ship.edu or submit online at the link below.
LGBTQ Safer Zone
The university campus and broader communities are comprised of people with a variety of unique experiences and cultural norms, including sexuality and gender. This class-length lesson presents information about terminology, language, etiquette, and unique experiences relevant to the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer and genderqueer communities.
Associated campus events: Transgender Day of Remembrance (November), Transgender Day of Visibility (April), Day of (No) Silence (April)
Please email us to request a lesson at page@ship.edu.
It's On Us, Ship! Green Dot for Groups
Bystander action is key to interrupting sexual and partner violence and to changing community norms. Every member of the campus community can do something (it’s on us!) to intervene, hold harm-doers accountable, and model and endorse behavior that is incompatible with violence. This 60-minute lesson lays out the plan to make change, explores our barriers to taking action, and provides a toolbox of behavior and skill to act and stop violence before it happens. This is a great workshop for academic groups, chapters, clubs, teams, departments, and leadership committees. Presentation with facilitated discussion and activities.
Please email us to request a lesson at page@ship.edu.
It's On Us, Ship! Peer-to-Peer
Shippensburg University students are leading the way with discussion and action to end sexual violence, partner violence, and stalking. Everyone can do something and all students are invited to commit and participate. It's On Us, Ship!